How Common Is Your Last Name?

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Pretty rare, but not extremely so.



Some fun names in the family:







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It doesn't seem to handle double-barreled names well. My wife's maiden name doesn't show up, but there's at least her sister who has it.

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Here is a trivia question. Out of the 1,000 most common surnames used in the United States, what surname in the United States has the highest percentage of blacks of the total for that surname using it? What surname is second? What surname has the highest absolute number of blacks in the US using it?

My surname is rather evenly dispersed so it is pretty boring. I was told at one time that the highest incidence was in North Carolina, but that may just be idle chat.

I'm pretty sure that the most common black surname was actually "White". Don't quote me on that.

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It doesn't seem to handle double-barreled names well. My wife's maiden name doesn't show up, but there's at least her sister who has it.

I found it; you need to enter the name without spaces. I'm not going to put it in, though; the only result was <5 in NJ, so it must be only her sister (and her if the data was collected before 2008, which it must have been). Not really surprising, although the constituent parts of the name were both pretty common.

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Speaking of dynasties, the Chinese dynasties:












(Qing is above.)