Can i find out the nationality of a person by their last name on the internet?

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Can i find out the nationality of a person by their last name on the internet?

I need to know where a certain person is from. would it be on the internet, different nationalities last names

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...
will tell you where the name originated, if there are enough people with that name in the USA to warrant an entry. As everyone else has said, it isn't foolproof.

"John Lee", for instance, might be related to the CSA General or he might be Chinese. "Park" is English and Korean. Lots of people named "Smith" (English) were "Schmidt" (German, Swiss, Austrian) before they came through Ellis Island.

There are 4th-generaton Americans, Australians, Canadians and South Africans with English, Scottish, Irish, Indian and Chinese names. The President of Peru for several years was named Fujimoro (sp?) His son, if that's your person, would have a Japanese last name but be from Peru.