If you're curious about where your last name originated from or how many people across the world share your surname, then there's an amazing online database that can help you.
Forebears is a genealogy portal that sheds light on 11 million of the world's surnames, their meanings and information on their geographic distribution.
It shows how common your surname is, how many people bear the same surname and whether it originated from an occupation, a male ancestor or a topographical feature.
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According to Forebears, "The main aim of the site is to bring together the wide variety of genealogical sources available on and off-line and catalogue them; so as to make them easily accessible by researchers looking for records relating to ancestors in a particular town, region or country."