A Thousand Surnames

How many surnames do you really have?

Your ID shows two. But each of your parents had two, and so did your grandparents… Import your family tree and get all your surnames, in order, with stats and how rare they are.

Work out my surnames

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How they’re counted

Your first surname is your father’s first, and your second is your mother’s first. Keep going: your third is your father’s second and your fourth your mother’s second. Each parent brings their whole list, interleaved with the other’s, generation after generation.

Father GarcíaPérezAguirreEtxeberria
Mother LópezRuizSanzGil
You 1García2López3Pérez4Ruiz5Aguirre6Sanz7Etxeberria8Gil

Great-grandparents get you to 8 surnames, great-great-grandparents to 16. A gap shows as “_”.

Import from Ancestry or MyHeritage

Upload your GEDCOM file and pick whose surnames you want. Or build the tree by hand on a family cookie.

All your surnames

The full list, with “_” for gaps and a clue about who to research next.

Stats with INE data

Generations, surnames in a row, repeats, how many people carry each one in Spain and where it’s most typical.

How many sound Basque?

Etxeberria, Goikoetxea, Zubizarreta… we count the ones that look Basque. Just for fun.

A card to share

A kawaii image with your surnames for the family chat or Instagram.

Truly private

No accounts, no server. Your tree is stored encrypted in your browser.

What it’s for

To know where you come from, to show off at Christmas dinner, or to find out that only 40 people in all of Spain carry your fourth surname.

And for genealogy: a clear view of which branches are complete and which ancestor to look for next.

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