Welcome to Lastnamle, a game created by Stephen Viray and Chris Choi!
How to Play:
1. Try to guess which country the last name is most prevalent in
2. Use the hints to help you make your next guess.
Continent: Green if you have guessed the correct continent, red if not.
Region: Green if you have guessed the correct region within that continent (South Asia, Northern Europe etc.)
First Letter: Green if you have guessed a country with the same first letter as the correct country
# of Letters: Green if you have guessed a country with the same number of letters as the correct country
3. Keep guessing, try the unlimited mode if you want to continue playing!
About the Data:
- All of the data for this site was collected from
Forebears.
- The country associated with each name is decided by the country which has the most people of that last name,
not based on the language of origin of the last name
- The difficulties in the unlimited version are determined by the number of people in the 'answer country'
that has that name. Here are the difficulties:
Beginner: 1,000,000+ people in the #1 country have this last name
Easy: 200,000+ people
Normal: 50,000+ people
Hard: Between 10,000 and 200,000 people
Expert: Between 2,000 and 50,000 people
Impossible: Between 0 and 10,000 people
Possible Countries/Regions:
North America:
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico
Northern America: Canada, United States, Greenland, Bermuda, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Martin, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States Virgin Islands, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos Islands
South America:
Caribbean North: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
Brazil: Brazil
Andean West: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands
Europe:
Western Europe: Isle of Man, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Switzerland, Jersey, England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Guernsey
Balkan Countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia,
Central Europe: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Eastern Europe: Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Southern Europe: Cyprus, Greece, Vatican City, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Northern Cyprus, Andorra, Gibraltar
Northern Europe: Faroe Islands, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Asia:
West Asia: Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine, Oman, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Bahrain
Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
East Asia: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, India,Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Africa:
Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
Eastern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Southern Africa: Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Oceania:
Australasia: Australia, New Zealand
Melanesia: Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Micronesia: Micronesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau
Polynesia: American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna