Clan & Surname Map
See where your family name comes from.
MacDonald in Lochaber. O’Neill in Tyrone. Tudor in Anglesey. See exactly where 497 family names come from, mapped tile by tile across Britain and Ireland, and by language tree across the Continent, from the German lands to the Spanish kingdoms.
Britain and Ireland
Mapped tile by tile
The deepest corner of the atlas: four nations, every region and county drawn, every family page tied to ground. Pick a nation below to enter its chapter.
England
England
The shires and the smoke, Anglo-Saxon tun-names, Norman feudal lines, London's melting pot, and the great post-Conquest surname pool of the English-speaking world.
- Families
- 136
- regions
- 42
Éire
Ireland
Four provinces, thirty-two counties, and a diaspora that outnumbers the island by ten to one. The land of the túatha and the chieftains, of the Plantations and the Famine emigrations, where the family name is half the inheritance.
- Families
- 56
- counties
- 32
Alba
Scotland
From the Hebrides to the Borders: Highland clans, Norse-Gaelic earldoms, Lowland riding families and the great Glasgow-Edinburgh surname pool.
- Families
- 71
- tiles
- 42
Cymru
Wales
The land of the cantref and the commote, a kingdom of patronymics, where Owain Glyndŵr was the last to be called Prince of Wales by his own people.
- Families
- 34
- tiles
- 17
The continent
Europe, by language tree
One interactive map of the whole continent, every castle, landmark and historic city in the atlas, plotted where it stands, with the families sourced to each country. Beyond Britain and Ireland the atlas files names not by modern state but by the language tree they came from, so a displaced East-Prussian or Volga-German name still files under German.
Now with names: German · French · Italian · Spanish · Portuguese · Dutch · Polish · Ukrainian · Greek · Swedish · Norwegian · Danish. 0 more language trees coming.
- European families
- 191
- Language trees
- 12
Play As Your Clan
Adventure with your ancestors.
Pick your clan, pick a year, 500 to 1945, and land anywhere on the map you’re looking at. An open-world story written around you, turn by turn. First chapter free.
Historic Places, Rebuilt
Don’t just map it. Explore it.
The map ties every name to ground. We rebuild that ground as photoreal reconstructions from history: stand in the towns and clan castles your family came from and look all the way around. Free, in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · New
The castle on its crag, St Giles' crown spire, and the closes tumbling to the Cowgate.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · New
The old castle above the River Ness, the market cross and the seven-arched bridge, on the eve of Culloden.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · New
St Paul's, Covent Garden and the gaslit West End, Regency London, soot-hazed and horse-drawn.
Games
Take the field for your clan.
The atlas is also a board. Steer your crowd, gun down the rival horde and conquer the real map of Britain and Ireland as your own surname in Clan Conquest, free, in your browser, no download.