The links below will help you learn more about where your name originated. Choose the country from the table below you are interested in, click on the link, type in your name, and take a look at the map.
Tracing Immigrant Origins
United States Emigration and Immigration Surname Distribution Maps
Sometimes it is possible to guess where a surname originated through surname distribution maps. These maps graphically display locations where surnames occurred at different periods in time. This strategy provides genealogists with a starting point for research in the birth country, when that information cannot be discovered through sources recorded in the new country of settlement. It works particularly well for less-common surnames and among families that have stayed in the same European locations for centuries.
Tracing Immigrant Origins
United States Emigration and Immigration Surname Distribution Maps 
Online Surname Distribution Maps
External links
- Geogenealogy surname mapping website
- Stephen Archer's Surname Atlas CD for detailed mapping of British surnames in the 1881 census
