The most interactive thing about this seems to be the banner ads..
I thought Google ads had a maximum spots per page, looks like there's at least 8 on some pages.
Map of Surnames in Europe
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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#32Maybe it's my surname, but it just looks like a population map.
My name is so rare, in my own country, I only get two small spots.
And I don't live (or haven't lived) in any of them.
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#33Nice. Also the bloat-free implementation. Why can't all websites be like this?
> Also the bloat-free implementation.
Only if you have a blocker that deals with the interstitial ads…
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#34Seems like a scam to collect credit card information from browsers that are not safe enough. When I click on the name field I get a message saying "Automatic credit card filling is disabled because this form does not ..."
I would not jump to such conclusions - browsers are sometimes too clever for their own good.
Do you see any (visible or hidden) form input for card number, expiry date and CVV2?
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#35It's kind of funny, my surname actually does have a huge cluster around my hometown, but my paternal grandfather I inherited that name from was from another part of Germany and only moved here in the 1940s.
One time someone from the USA contacted me on Facebook because he has the same surname, to see if we were related. We weren't, but his great-grandparents were from my hometown and emigrated to the USA around 1900 or so (before WW I, anyway).
Fun fact, in 1998, I did an internship at a local hi-fi shop and met a guy who actually had the exact same name as my father. But wait, there's more: He also was in the same line of work as my father. He did not look anything like my father, fortunately, that would have freaked my out in a big way.
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#36I'd like to see this as a coloured heatmap, normalized to the proportion of people in an area with a given surname...
Currently it's just highlighting big cities for any surname I could think of.
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#37Basically just population maps - https://xkcd.com/1138/
Even for very common Dutch surnames like Jansen, Smit and De Vries you see interesting differences.
For the Netherlands, https://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/index.php?taal=eng/ is a better source. It has an (IMO) better visualization and can compensate for population density. Invalshoek expect it to have better data.
(And for first names, there’s https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/english)
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#38It's kind of funny, my surname actually does have a huge cluster around my hometown, but my paternal grandfather I inherited that name from was from another part of Germany and only moved here in the 1940s. One time someone from the USA contacted me on Facebook because he has the same surname, to see if we were related. We weren't, but his great-grandparents were from my hometown and emigrated to the USA around 1900…
Sounds like another (anecdotal) data point for nominative determinism:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180404-do-our-names-p...
Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#39It's kind of funny, my surname actually does have a huge cluster around my hometown, but my paternal grandfather I inherited that name from was from another part of Germany and only moved here in the 1940s. One time someone from the USA contacted me on Facebook because he has the same surname, to see if we were related. We weren't, but his great-grandparents were from my hometown and emigrated to the USA around 1900…
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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe
#40I don't know which dataset you're using for the Netherlands, but it's way off:
https://www.surnamemap.eu/netherlands/index.php?sur=van+der+...
https://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_lcnaa...
EDIT: actually, it works if I use "vd Zwan", which is fine by itself, but that contradicts the instructions on top of the page:
https://www.surnamemap.eu/netherlands/nl/index.php?sur=vd+zw...