What’s In A Name? Check Out The New Names Website We’ve Become Obsessed With

It’s become a massive hit online, and we can totally see why. We’ve fallen head over heels for a website this week and once you hear why, we guarantee you are going to spend endless hours of fun on it. Meet Forebears.io, a name website that will unlock the meaning of your surname, show you its origin and tell you how many people share the same name and what country they’re living in. Yup, we’re serious, and yes, we have spent a few hours searching random people’s surnames. Aside from searching our own name, our mother’s maiden name and a load of variations on the same, we also looked up some famous people’s surnames to see where it all began, with pretty interesting results… Take ‘Kardashian’ as an example. Approximately 501 people have the surname, mainly in the US and Mexico and it’s the 483,533^rd most common surname in the world. Now how about our very own Ryan Tubridy? Well apparently, 836 people share his surname and it is most common in the US and well, Ireland. Not that surprising really. The best fun I got out of it all though had to be when I searched my name, ‘McGuire’ which apparently means I am somehow connected to a King of Scotland. I’m not at all surprised by that in the slightest.