How popular is your last name? (1 Viewer)

[BrianB]

944. Very suprised at how common it is, guess it's due to Scots getting everywhere

 

[BrettB]

I know your last name.

 

[Paul McElligott]

Didn't make the list. Nice to be special and unique.

 

[John Kilduff]

I'm at 18,258. Out of 55,000 surnames, I'm surprised it ranked so high. I thought it was an uncommon name.

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...

Well, it's somewhat uncommon, at any rate.

 

[Jason Adams]

Adams is 37!

 

[David Brown Eyes]

I do not exist. either as Brown Eyes or Browneyes.

 

[Henry Gale]

I knew a family named "Outhouse" when I lived in Indiana.
Outhouse is surname number 32185 in the USA.

 

[RyanAn]

I'm #9 with Anderson!

woot!

ry

 

[McPaul]

896. I'm a little surprised it ranked that high.

I wonder what's 55000 on that list?

 

[Kyle McCabe]

I was only 1,118? Aww.... I thought for sure that I was a little more unique! :frowning:

 

[Rommel_L]

45271

 

[Mike Frezon]

Who knew that L was even that popular?!

 

[Rob P S]

6621

 

[Jonathan_]

Mine is number 1100.

 

[JeremyErwin]

from a bbc article on chinese names:


So, to all you Smiths out there: It could be worse.

 

[Yee-Ming]

It can get worse: Chinese given names can be "invented" or "created", in the sense that parents may take Chinese characters (words) that mean good qualities or virtues to name their kids, and a reasonably wide combination can result, though as the article suggests, there are inevitably some popular, and therefore common, combinations. In contrast, Western (Christian) names were historically literally limited to names in the Bible, and generally still a somewhat finite list of names is used.

Combine finite given names with only 700-odd surnames, with 1.3 billion people you get a real mess. In Singapore, with only 4 million, of which 75% are Chinese and not everyone uses Western names, it is already starting to get messy: for instance, in the legal profession alone (which is only several thousand) I know of at least 3 guys called "Andrew Ang": one's a High Court judge, one a practising lawyer, the third is an in-house counsel. I can't imagine what happens if/when China gets all "fashionable" and starts using Western names.

Of course, the distinction between the Andrews is the Chinese given name, but nowadays some people aren't given Chinese names either -- back in law school I vaguely recall that in the class 2 years senior to mine, there were two guys both called "Stephen Lim", and neither had a Chinese name either. Notices were therefore distinguished by adding their identity card numbers behind their names.

 

[Buzz Foster]

I missed this the first time around.

My hyphen ated last name, and my ex's last name alone, are not ranked. As far as I know, only two people in the world stil have the hyphenated name...my ex and our son. I went back to my original surname, which is not the surname I use here (the HTF server did not accept hyphens back int he day...). That surname is my ex's. My given surname came in at #85. My best friend, Barnes, came in at 90, which I found surprising.

My partner came in at 2770. My mom's surname came in at a surprisingly high 4302. Despite having an Atlanta suburb named for her family, there are few Conyers around that I find.

 

[Ravi K]

Mine isn't even listed. 55,000 names, no me.

 

[Holadem]

I trust many of you will be thrilled to learn that Garcia and Rodriguez have now broken into the list of Top 10 most common surnames in the US.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us...8da&ei=5087%0A

Be nice

--
H

 

[JeremyErwin]

I plugged in the names of my most recent ancestors, and none was more frequent than 110th.