Haplogroup E-M34

What is Paternal Haplogroup E-M34?

Haplogroup E-M34 is a group of Y-chromosome lineages defined by unique genetic markers. Your paternal haplogroup, or that of your father if you do not have a Y-chromosome, sheds light on the migrations of your ancestors. Although your paternal haplogroup reflects just one of your many ancestral lineages, it carries information about that lineage over tens of thousands of years.

Haplogroup E-M34 is descended from haplogroup E-M123. Among 23andMe research participants, haplogroup E-M34 is commonly found among populations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

It's important to note that your haplogroup doesn't define your current ethnic identity; rather, it provides an insight into your deep ancestry on the paternal side.

Paternal Haplogroup Origins E-M123

Top Surnames with Haplogroup E-M34

For surnames with sufficient representation in the data, these percentages represent the frequency with which each surname is found in individuals exhibiting this genetic marker.

Last Name	Frequency
stevens	3.30%
smith	1.20%
jones	1.20%
shirey	1.20%
romero	1.00%
harris	1.00%
miller	0.80%
davis	0.70%
schwartz	0.70%
watkins	0.70%
goldstein	0.70%
pugh	0.60%
black	0.50%
martinez	0.50%
stephens	0.50%
lewis	0.50%
dean	0.50%
tobias	0.50%
cohen	0.50%
thrasher	0.40%

Haplogroup E-M34 is linked to Napolean Bonaparte

The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte descended from the common ancestor of haplogroup E-M34. The male line of the Bonaparte family was from Tuscany, where Napoleon's earliest known male ancestors lived for at least six generations. Eleven generations before Napoleon, his ancestor, Giovanni, was the first to leave Tuscany for Corsica. The Bonaparte lineage lived in Corsica for ten generations before Napoleon's father, Charles-Marie Bonaparte. Charles-Marie (born in 1746) married Napoleon's mother, Letizia Ramolino, at the age of 18 in 1764.

Napoleon Bonaparte