Thanks, Darilee, those are fun. Watch out for the Hamrick maps - they are based on percentages for each state, rather than numbers like the gens-us map. The gens-us map is helpful to get an idea of how popular your name is and where it might be concentrated. I figure you can ignore the west coast and Florida. All my names were heavy in New York and Ohio, but my family lines are all northern, so those would be normal migration patterns. I decided that a concentration in Wisconsin is worth checking out, or at least watching for! Diane Hettrick bookstorelady wrote: > > well, here's another map of the US that I think some of you will find amusing... > specially if you think you have an uncommon name... > http://hamrick.com/names/ > another version > http://www.gens-us.net/ this one also does Italian names <grin> > > Darilee