How Common Is Your Last Name?

[Soup18]

[MHS2002]

Soup18, where in DC are you?

[Schmitz in 1972]

This thread has made me laugh harder than I have in a loooong time! Random last names I searched
http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/G/GARBAGE.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/P/PUKE.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/L/LOSER.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/S/STAPLER.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/H/HAMSTER.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/D/DUMMY.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/M/MURDER.gif


and lastly http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/L/LIBERTY.gif


Note: None of these (including Liberty) are my real last name

EDIT: I just found this one and I can't resist!
http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/F/FATSO.gif

[Ebowed]

EDIT: I just found this one and I can't resist!
http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/F/FATSO.gif

I think that may be the best one in the whole thread.

[Blerpiez]

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/D/DUMMY.gif

LOL

[Platypus]

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/D/DUMMY.gif

LOL

Those Dummy's voted the wrong way

[migrendel]

As I said, Cabot-Lowell isn't my actual last name. My actual last name is common enough that you might have heard of it, but uncommon enough that you might not know anyone with the name personally.

[skybridge]

bump.

Some of you need to bring those maps back!

[??????????]

Bump. I think you have to d/l the maps before posting.

[CPT MikeyMike]

Wow...this is very intersting.

I won't post the map however, the states over 1,000 are CA, NY, TX, FL, IL and NJ. And the states between 100-1000 are AZ, NM, PA, CT and MA.  Since my surname is both common in Mexico and Canada (Quebec), the results are not that shocking.

[Hash]

L'Hermine



Malo



Oh, and lol

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Very uncommon.........and since it was spelled incorrectly by the immigration folks it's not even the same name as it is where my grandparents came from.

[DownWithTheLeft]

It's one letter off from a very popular name and brand, but as far as the name itself, it isn't that uncommon.  FL, NY, PA, MI, WI, and CA have over 1,000.  There is a town with the same name too in the Midwest.

[Verily]

Pretty rare, but not extremely so.



Some fun names in the family:







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[Speed of Sound]

Guess where Im from? 

[afleitch]

[afleitch]

Here is a UK 'equivalent'

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx

[Verily]

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.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I will do some random ones that are part of my family











THis says little about my ancestry as my mother was adopted.  It is decidedly less British/Irish and more Norwegian/Swedish than it appears.

[Torie]

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.

[Verily]

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.

[Torie]

White was the 14th most common black name in the United States in absolute numbers.   In percentage terms, the surname with the highest percentage of blacks using that name had a percentage of 89.87% of the total using that surname.

[Brittain33]

I'm not going to post my actual last name here, but suffice to say it is an unusual spelling of a reasonably uncommon Russian Jewish last name. Most people with this name in the U.S. are relatives. New Jersey is first, followed by New York. The weirdness is that it only appears in six states, and the other four are Florida, Oregon, Iowa, and Utah.

Iowa? Utah? It's not unthinkable for Russian Jewish immigrants to land in those states, but not to the exclusion of so many others.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The only people with the last name Constine in the entire world are directly related to me.

[Aizen]

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