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by will_work4tears 4663 days ago
Yeah, I wonder about the data itself. A similar site shows that there are 230 people in the US with my last name, and I'm the only one here with my first/last name combo (there is apparently one in Canada). Also my last name is strongly Irish, and it showed no percentage of people in Ireland with my last name, but a lot in GB.
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Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.
I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.