Thursday, September 11, 2008

Surname Map

With the World Names Profiler, you can enter your surname to find out where it is most common. Surprisingly, my surname has the highest frequency not in the UK or Ireland or the United States, but in New Zealand of all places! I guess we're good with sheep or something. And in the U.S., we're in every state except Arizona and Tennessee for some reason, with the highest concentration in West Virginia. I guess we're good with coal, too.

(Via Lifehacker)

1 comment:

Tim said...

would that have something to do with New Zealand having four million people and the graph is measured in Names per million?