How common are you?

[krooton]

We have been discussing surnames at work today, as a colleague is getting married and wondered how common her maiden name was.

A quick search showed 205k historical records for her maiden name, and only 6k for her to-be surname.

This then led to us searching the rest of the team.

My other colleague got 27k, and out manager 29k.

Me? 62, lol.

It's almost like the googlewhacking of yore, so how rare is your surname?

 

[Renton]

Not at all...no wat I mean

Opps! should read the post not just the title

 

[zenf]

4,946,140 Historical Documents & Family Trees

1,226,373 Census and Voter Lists
88,671 Immigration Records
1,168,087 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
2,252,103 Member Family Trees
210,906 Military Records

Not bad!

 

[krooton]

4,946,140 Historical Documents & Family Trees

1,226,373 Census and Voter Lists
88,671 Immigration Records
1,168,087 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
2,252,103 Member Family Trees
210,906 Military Records

Not bad!

Smith? Jones? Ford?

 

[Schizo]

2,938,974 Historical Documents & Family Trees

781,208 Census and Voter Lists
66,693 Immigration Records
828,708 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
1,168,546 Member Family Trees
93,819 Military Records

 

[HecFam]

Do I win?

Not sure, if there are any Smiths around they have 60,312,142 documents.

We'll wait and see


I got 23,832 which im surprised at, never met anyone else with my surname. (except my family and my cat)

 

[Karl]

2,284 Historical Documents & Family Trees
473 Census and Voter Lists
27 Immigration Records
745 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
1,015 Member Family Trees
24 Military Records

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

2 worldwide I'd imagine.

It's pretty annoying when ordering a taxi and we often make up more normal, regular names.

e:

Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the [redacted]

 

[robj20]

32,296,244 Historical Documents & Family Trees

8,983,986 Census and Voter Lists
9,838,925 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
1,213,345 Military Records
631,912 Immigration Records
11,628,076 Member Family Trees

 

[zenf]

Smith? Jones? Ford?

Ford indeed.

 

[Gilly]

10,364 Historical Documents & Family Trees

1,784 Census and Voter Lists
147 Immigration Records
3,886 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
4,448 Member Family Trees
99 Military Records

 

[Hedge]

14,864,865 Historical Documents & Family Trees
4,151,326 Census and Voter Lists
738,237 Immigration Records
3,599,721 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
5,675,319 Member Family Trees
700,262 Military Records

Guess my name is pretty popular

 

[krooton]

I'm guessing that I must be related to all the 61 others on my list then

 

[InertProtocol]

5,908,995 Historical Documents & Family Trees

1,874,230 Census and Voter Lists

172,771 Immigration Records
2,591,993 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
1,166,668 Member Family Trees
103,333 Military Records

 

[FutileBreadMachine]

454 Historical Documents & Family Trees.

I'm part of a rare breed.

 

[Skidder]

7,716,583 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Collins
2,011,116 Census and Voter Lists169,206 Immigration Records2,020,324 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths3,210,461 Member Family Trees305,476 Military Records

 

[BigRazer93]

23,839 Historical Documents & Family Trees
156,750 Census and Voter Lists
26,121 Immigration Records
103,466 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
317,276 Member Family Trees
20,226 Military Records

 

[DanielMMS]

I'm double barrelled. If I enter the names separately one gets 180k and the other 7k. Together I get nothing, which is a little odd.

 

[Zefan]

90,056

 

[robj20]

Am i winning.