Putting You On The Map: The Website That Pinpoints Where Your Name Is In The World -- The IndependentIt Is a question that not even Google can answer: where in the world are all the other people with my name?
It sounds impossible, but it can now be answered thanks to a remarkable new website launched yesterday, which enables the names of most people in the English-speaking world, and a sizeable chunk of the rest of it, to be tracked to the places they live.
Set up by geographers at University College London (UCL), the site, www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames, will provide a remarkable tool for tracing family history and also a powerful aid for governments to keep track of intra-national and international migrations.
The database behind the site holds 300 million names of people in 26 countries, representing a population of about a billion, or nearly a sixth of the world.
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Update: The Official Site World Names is here.
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