[The Next Web] This site will guess exactly where in the UK you come from based on your surname

If you’re the sort of person who’s interested in finding out more about other people with your surname – so that’s pretty much everyone – then the ‘Named‘ project by PublicProfiler will be right up your street. In a nutshell, just type in your surname, hit search and it’ll show you a heatmap of the UK that contains the most instances. It’s simple and won’t even distract you from work for very long – unless you decide to dive deep and start typing in random surnames. If you have an ultra-rare surname, fear not as these were excluded to protect your privacy-…

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