I found it to be quite accurate. I entered my surname and World Names Profiler said the Netherlands is the country were my name occurs most, which is correct. They also mentioned the province I live in as the top region for my name, which is also correct.
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Not impressed. Didn't work great for my name. Apparently, they have no records of Quebecers. Strange since we have lots of records of births since 1660s.
They did a very poor job.
I disagree. My wife's maiden name Heydt, looks right. It named her home county in Pennsylvania, where I know there are quite a few Heydts.
Funny, a few days ago I made the data of familienaam.be and familienaam.nl (websites that generate maps showing the distribution and frequency of surnames in Belgium and Holland) available in Google Earth. More info here: http://www.merkador.com/?q=content/familienamen Scroll down to introduce your name and generate an overlay for Google Earth.
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