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For the names I looked up in the UK, this might as well have been a map of population centres. Almost every surname was focused in London, Birmingham and Manche
by MarcScott 5y ago
For the names I looked up in the UK, this might as well have been a map of population centres. Almost every surname was focused in London, Birmingham and Manchester. It's to be expected, I suppose, but not very informative.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoYep, relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1138/ https://m.xkcd.com/1138/ Without a per-capita adjustment, this is near-meaningless.
- notahacker 5y agoDepends what you're trying to extract from the data. For my rare surname, it's tiny circles corresponding to individual households, most of the UKs largest cities have no instances but there is a cluster of small circles in the towns near where my dad grew up. That's more interesting visually than the frequency being <1 per 100k population basically everywhere.
- folkrav 5y agoFirst thing I did was typing up my French originating surname; big agglomerate right around Paris, then Normandy (where my ancestors came from).