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October 30, 2015 03:27 am PDT

A world map of your surname's prevalence

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Forebears.io charts the worldwide prevalence of your surname and offers interesting stats on its distribution. [via]

Pictured above is "Beschizza," which originates in northern Italy (allegedly a locally-assimilated Roma name, it has splendid connotations in German of crappiness and drunkenness, a la "shitfaced" or, more literally, "beshitted") but everyone went to Brazil and England about a century ago.


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