January 18, 2006

Surname Profile

Found this amazing website yesterday but it wasn't working due to a massive spike in traffic. Managed to get onto it this morning and dig out some fascinating info about my surname and its distribution round the UK.

For instance, for every million people in the UK only 19 are Knipes. I'd always believed that it was a North West (specifically Lancashire) name too and this was borne out by this website...

They must be getting lots of interest because of the current series of Who do you think you are.

If you have even the slightest interest in the distribution of your surname around the UK you should check this site out!

Where do you come from? ;-)

Posted by Garry at January 18, 2006 10:17 AM
Comments

Thanks for the heads up Garry! Site still busy but added to check out later list.

Posted by: Kodger at January 19, 2006 8:58 AM

This looks cool...I'll have to spend some time on it later!

Posted by: Gavin Kagan at January 21, 2006 10:31 AM

Just looked up my maiden name - for a German name, there are still 87 occurrences in Britain - but most of them are in Scotland! Strange...

Posted by: Beth at January 26, 2006 5:21 PM

I looked up my name for both available years yet there's no data for it. We must be very very unique!!!! Thanks for the tip though.:)

Posted by: kate at January 27, 2006 11:27 AM

I knew/corresponded with a Knipe in the late 60s/70s. Peter, from Harrogate but studying in Plymouth.
Recently found some very arty/weird letters from him, which will, eventually feature in my blog.

A relation maybe?

Posted by: lizzyb at March 20, 2006 10:24 AM