http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

New website that tracks surnames (last names) by geography and where they might have migrated to...!

Although I have not been able to actually do the surname search, as the website is apparently being inundated with traffic!

Very interesting! Unfortunately, it's still inundated with traffic.

woohoooooooo I got through a few times able to check the British surnames of my ancestors, its really interesting! I have about 5-6 surnames of great grandparents to check out, and very fascinating to see where the names were in 1881 and 1998, and their derivations, being Danish, or Celtic, or English, etc. There is interesting information on the Mosaic type of the surname, but then when I go searching for more information on this, I get absolutely nowhere. Does anyone have more information on the Mosaic categories that get given to surnames, and how/where to find more information?

:p:p

Tongue in cheek, this search of my surnames bears out my contention to English friends, that I am more English than the English!

I can't believe you posted this website....I am working on a paper with one of the creators of this website (a different department at my uni), on a paper looking at the frequencies of different surnames in districts. The dataset has 5.5 million observations!!

This link is now working:

http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames1/