Sep 9
Most interesting
I’m way tired and ouchie and uncomfortable. But here’s something that removed me from my self for a bit - this interesting World Names Profiler site. You type in your surname (that’s your last name if’n you don’t cotton to the British English) and it shows you the origin of your surname and density (people per million sharing that name).
It was pretty goshdarn accurate in my case. And I’ve got a Polish last name that doesn’t even end in “-ski”. And, of course, I checked me friends’ last names. In most cases, they matched up pretty perfectly with what they consider to be their ethnic origins. In one case, I was quite surprised to see that my friend’s last name is more common in Poland than anywhere else in the world, and I don’t think he considers Polish to be a large part of his ethnic mix. I knew it was a part, but the surname wasn’t all that familiar to me…
Anyway… I just checked a bunch of last names - friends, celebrities, authors… because I find that to be a relaxing way to waste some time when I’m tired and feeling brainless.
Tags: density, ethnic origins, Poland, surname, world names
