Website maps surnames worldwide There are more Beckhams in the United States than anywhere else A website which maps global surnames has been launched to help people find the origins of their name and how far it may have spread. The Public Profiler site plots 10.8 million last names using data from electoral rolls and phone directories. The site covers a billion people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have scattered. David Beckham, for example, has an English name, but there are more Beckhams in the US than Britain. But the region of the world containing the most Beckhams was even further from the footballer's east London origins - in the New Zealand province of Northland. The site, publicprofiler.org, also reveals which of the 6.5 million forenames are most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for each surname. |