Welcome to 'Mapyourname.com' the global name mapping website.

Everyone has a name. Typically yours was given you to at your birth. it is the first thing about you that your relations, friends and colleagues get to know about you. Exchanging names is the first thing we do when we meet someone new for the first time.

Names aren’t just random letter combinations like a computer password. Each reveals the cultural, religious and geographical origins of its holder, or more particularly of their ancestors.

Whatever your name there will be a place in the world it is most common. That place may be a continent, sometimes a country but very often a very specific region or even city or town whose location can be marked on a map.

The purpose of Mapyourname.com is to make it easy for people to learn where this location is.

To create this website we have examined the names of 360,000,000 people currently alive in the United States, Australia and most of Western Europe. For almost all of these people Mapyourname will reveal the parts of the world from which their personal and family names originate.

For the 60,000 most common family names Mapyourname will show their spread not just at country level but right down to the level of individual regions. From these maps most of you should be able to pinpoint the ancestral heartland of your name, and your friends’ and colleagues’ names, the place where your distant blood relations live, the location of your genetic home.

You can also map the areas where the 26,000 personal names are most common.