Forebears.io Reviews and details

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• Name likehood + meaning for a character.

  The name I had in mind for her were found on the website forebears.io, but I wanted to have a bit of reviewing from the subreddit. Source: 6 months ago

• Can you think of any names that are considered 'boy names' in certain countries but 'girl names' in others?

  I was looking at names on forebears.io the other week, and it was interesting to learn that Marin is considered to be purely masculine in many countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia etc). I (in Scotland) view it as more feminine, and was expecting it to be unisex in lots of places, but I wasn't expecting that. Source: 9 months ago

• Similar website to howmanyofme?

  Try Forebears.io, it doesn't do full names though! Source: 9 months ago

• Help me find the origin of the last name Lomeli

  I used that exact website for the records and I also used forebears.io to. Hear are both results for Italy and Spain Discovery Search Results • FamilySearch Discovery Search Results • FamilySearch Here are also the forebears results Lomeli Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History (forebears.io). Source: 11 months ago

• Can anyone tell me about the surname 'Urbansky', what it means and where it might come from?

  Hi there. I've been hitting this wall on one part of my family tree for literally years now. My oldest ancestor with this surname that I've found lived in the Moselle region of France in the mid-late 1700s. I can't find anything else about their parents nor their birth certificate. All I can gather from searching the name on forebears.io and similar sites is that the surname isn't French. So, I'm posting here on... Source: 11 months ago

• How common is your last name?

  In America it is pretty rare. Around 1,800 people have the name according to https://forebears.io/ . It's even more rare outside of the US, though it is of British origin. In the U.K. There are 11 people share my surname. Source: 12 months ago

• How common is your last name?

  I think he’s talking about: https://forebears.io/. Source: 12 months ago

• [German > English] Genealogy translation

  I verified the likelihood of spellings Piechocki, Piachocki using forebears.io. The official's name was Piechocki, although this is not of practical importance for genealogy. Source: 12 months ago

• Finding a name

  Forebears to check the popularity, rank and frequency of names in different countries. Source: 12 months ago

• Linguistic origin of the most popular first name in each country as of 2014

  I'm using https://forebears.io/ as the source. Source: 12 months ago

• Can anyone please translate this (German>English)

  [RIGHT:] G. Bredres [?= Breders. The handwriting looks like the former. forebears.io did not find a single person in the world with either name.]. Source: about 1 year ago

• Early 1800s Marriage License

  Forebears.io shows 1,500 for Schicht, 75% of them in Germany. Shows zero worldwide for Schichs. Shows fewer than 1,000 combined for variations of Schicher, Scheicher. Admittedly, the schluss-t in "Schicht" is not identical to his other schluss-t, as in "Herrschaft". The priest wrote "Schicht" putting a bogen with the 'c'. This is incorrect when the 'c' is in Kurrent. However, he did the same thing in the entry... Source: about 1 year ago

• When you named yourself something stupid

  Chose mine by mashing two characters’ names from completely different franchises together so yeah I feel that TvT. According to forebears, less than 10,000 people worldwide share my name. Source: about 1 year ago

• Cool website for name statistics!

  Https://forebears.io/ seems global with its statistics. Source: about 1 year ago

• Death record transcription help

  Rockstroh. If the part were a 't', it would reach as far as the bottom of neighboring letters. Compare to Steinmetz. See also forebears.io (Rockstroh 2500 worldwide, Stockstroh 0). Source: about 1 year ago

• Naming The Characters is a Nightmare

  Forebears.io is also a good resource for looking at names and their popularity per country, and I also recommend looking at older name lists from SSA.gov. Source: about 1 year ago

• What is a website you use that the vast majority does not even know exists?

  Forebears is pretty cool. You put in a first or last name and it shows you where it's most common. Source: about 1 year ago

• Requesting help with translation. Marriage record in Cermna, Pardubice Region, Czechia.

  Considering that 99% of Croatian surnames end in -ic or -ovic -- kidding on "99%" -- Proso is not a Croatian name linguistically. But from forebears.io, it emerges that the name emerged in Croatia. Here's some sheer speculation. Dalmatia makes up 1/3 of Croatia's area. There used to be a relic Romance language there, called Dalmatian, amid a sea of speakers of Croatian. The last native speaker of Dalmatian,... Source: about 1 year ago

• If you could change your last name, what would you change it to?

  Smith, my first name is very distinctive and rare, forebears.io says that there's only 3 of us in the UK, I know that one of them also has the surname Smith, so I'd blend in a little easier. Source: about 1 year ago

• What do you wish you were named at birth instead of the one you've got?

  Something more normal, I looked on forebears.io for my first name and there are 3 in the UK. It does however mean that I'm remembered, but I'm also really easy to look up once you have my name. My surname is also fairly rare. Source: over 1 year ago

• Resources for finding Ancestors in Montenegro

  Https://forebears.io/ is a good place to start, imo. Source: over 1 year ago