How common is your surname...

[Torie]

93 for my most English surname.

IIR your surname correctly, it can also be very Irish. Probably has to something do with my cohort but everyone I've met with your surname was Irish Catholic.

Looks like there is one ex-pat living in Munich with my surname.  

The Irish version is Dunne, not Dunn. Sure, no doubt there are a fair amount of the latter  originating in Ireland, but its epicenter is in Northern England. My great grandfather's brother however married a runaway Irish Catholic woman from Boston who went down to Norfolk for some reason, and that branch of the Dunn clan, while yes, you guessed it, were beset by alcoholism ), bred like rabbits (one male had 10 kids, so my dad had a zillion second cousins or second cousins once removed or whatever), while I think my Protestant/Godless line will die out with my nephew being the last. So the Catholics have been making inroads, no doubt about it.

Never known any Dunne- other than the author.  I did have a rather sadistic football coach with the handle Dunn. Man, I wanted to shove than whistle up his, well...   I won't hold his joy in inflicting pain against you

I could suggest that perhaps a false assumption is embedded in the leitmotif of your post, but this is a family friendly forum.

[patrick1]

^Haha, must pick my imagery more carefully.  I hear Dunn and I think of being doubled over (damn this is harder than I thought, doh') and puking from wind sprints.

[anvi]

Both my parents have German ancestry.  My father's is much more widespread, with 70,394 people in Germany sharing his last name, most of which, surprisingly to me, live in Berlin, but with a heavy concentration in Baden-Baden, which was expectable.

My mother's maiden name has, shockingly almost disappeared from Germany; only 42 people in the whole country seem to share her family name.  We did, however, find a seventh cousin of her family in Baden-Baden in 1995 (though she had a different family name).

[TJ in Oregon]

The relative distribution for a my mother's family name from the line that has been in Sandusky for pretty much ever:



Many of the earliest German immigrants to my hometown came from Baden-Baden, so it looks like there is a decent chance my family is from that line.

[Hatman 🍁]

It says 1-3 Washburns in Quebec? Well, I happen to be related to all three (well, if it's from the phone book, it might just be the one...)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

17305 entries in the US, 501 in Canada, and only 87 in UK, which is odd since it is originally an English name.

[Associate Justice PiT]

17305 entries in the US, 501 in Canada, and only 87 in UK, which is odd since it is originally an English name.

     Your entire family came over?

[Platypus]

Australia 579.90

Very evenly spread, all states and territories in the second darkest category, excluding Tasmania where its one shade lighter.

New Zealand 400.67

Bit spotty, but the heavy points are equally distributed: Waitaki, Tasman, Rangitikei, Hastings, Gisbourne.

United Kingdom 376.30

South West top shade, Wales and South East one down, East and West Midlands, North England, and East ANglia one down from that in fourth shade, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Yorkshire and Humberside all third shade.

Canada 355.52

Saskatchewan third shade, NWT, Alberta and Nova Scotia fourth shade, New Brunswick fifth shade, Newfoundland top shade, and no shade for the rest.

United States 196.34

All third or fourth shade, except Texas and Mississippi (no shade), and Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine (fifth shade).

A few other countries have Bartlett in the first shade, all in Europe other than Argentina, but none have any real concentration other than the Southwest of Ireland (third shade).

Top City Bristol, top region Newfoundland (2833.02), top forename David. Coincidentally, I have an uncle David.

[Platypus]

As for my middle name, bestowed upon me and other members of my family for a few gernerations after the last person in Australia with this surname was a woman, it seems the survivors live in:

Friesland, Netherlands 5.02 fpm
South West, UK, 3.88 fpm
Midi-Pyrenees, France, 2.08 fpm
South East, UK, 1.57 fpm
East Midland, UK 1.22 fpm

Top city is Bedford, followed by Milton Keynes and Bristol. Top forename is John, followed by... Alison :/

There is a family (?) of them in Bucks county, PA, but other than that, none outside of Britain, the Netherlands, and France.

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A quick facebook search suggests that there are at least three living in Australia, though: One in Perth, the other two in Melbourne.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

15 in all of Germany.

[MaxQue]

Not surprisingly, my name is only in significant numbers in France, Canada and US.
For US, it's mainly in New England, which is normal considering the trends in Quebec immigration.
And in France, it is mainly in Normandy and lower Loire valley which is expected, too.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

17305 entries in the US, 501 in Canada, and only 87 in UK, which is odd since it is originally an English name.

     Your entire family came over?

You joke, but given the family history involved, it is entirely possible that is what happened and the ones in the UK are descended from Loyalists who moved back to England after the American Revolution or from people who moved back even later than that.

[後援会]

If you share my surname, you are almost certainly related to me. And related fairly closely.

[Dr. Cynic]

Quite common. When you're last name is Watson and you're attempting to work on a detailed history of your genealogy with almost no information other than "they came from England", it makes you want to just gouge your eyes out. It's too common for what little information I had to work with.

[Insula Dei]

Pretty unsurprising results:

In Deutschland gibt es 1320 Telefonbucheinträge zum Namen XXX und damit ca. 3520 Personen mit diesem Namen.

Weitere Kreise/Städte mit besonders vielen Namensträgern sind Borken (55), Wesel (50), Rhein-Kreis Neuss (49), Hamburg (48), Köln (46), Düsseldorf (41), Viersen (39), Mönchengladbach (37) sowie Aachen mit 30 Einträgen



I've also looked at the Belgian and Dutch equivalents, and you could pretty much draw a 50-kilometer radius from the dark red zone on the German map and have 75%+ of the results within that circle.

[minionofmidas]

Probably the most common... uh... unfortunate... German surname at 137 entries - Möslein. I suppose there's some alternative etymology, but to me that means "little vagina".

[後援会]

Unsurprisingly, 0 people share my surname in Germany.

[Yelnoc]

Can someone link me to the "whole world" one?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Link to the Italian one ?