Mapping Your Surname using the Current German Telephone Book Thursday, July 16, 2009

A fun thing to do is to use the mapping tool at verwandt.de. It finds your surname in the current German on-line telephone book and then shades each department according to how many occurrences there are. You can look at the absolute number of occurrences, or just the number of households (relative).

A search for Ziegler, yields:

Der Name 'Ziegler' kommt in diesen Landkreisen am häufigsten vor:

1. München (450)
2. Berlin (399)
3. Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (361)
4. Stadtverband Saarbrücken (279)
5. Ludwigsburg (279)
6. Stuttgart (267)
7. Esslingen (256)
8. Nürnberg (236)
9. Rems-Murr-Kreis (223)
10. Ostalbkreis (222)

I bolded the ones that are in Wuerttemberg