GeowebInfo » Web http://geowebinfo.com thoughts on all things geo Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:49:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How common is your surname? http://geowebinfo.com/2009/02/27/how-common-is-your-surname/ http://geowebinfo.com/2009/02/27/how-common-is-your-surname/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:03:00 +0000 Sriharsha Vankadara http://geowebinfo.com/?p=58 [...]]]> Curious to know how common your surname is across the US?

Head over to Dynastree, search for your last name and get a geographical distribution of persons with the same surname sorted by states.

Just in case if you’re wondering what the source could be, its the phone book…

Did you know that Anderson is the most frequent name in the US?

Here’s a map of my..uh..name (there’s just one entry in the phone book with my surname)

Create your family tree at dynastree.com
Distribution of the surname Harsha
Distribution of the surname Harsha

Where does your name come from?

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