Where are your 8 closest surnames (your great grandparents' surnames) highest ranked?

[Costas]

You can check them at forebears.co.uk/surnames/surname you want to check and see "rank in nation"



Mine are the following.


Mum

Paternal grandfather: Cuba

Paternal grandmother: Ireland

Maternal grandfather: Colombia

Maternal grandmother: Andorra


Dad

Paternal grandfather: Puerto Rico

Paternal grandmother: Cuba

Maternal grandfather: Chile

Maternal grandmother: Chile

[Sikeliot]

My Polish side's surnames are all predominant in Russia. Very odd.

I put in a number of Sicilian surnames and they come up both Maltese in prevalence and frequency. Not surprising.

Mom's side:

Paternal great grandmother: Russia (prevalence), Belarus (density)
Paternal great grandfather: Russia
Maternal great grandmother: Brazil (prevalence), Cape Verde (density)
Maternal great grandfather: Brazil (prevalence), Portugal (density)


Dad's side:

Paternal great grandfather: Italy (prevalence), Monaco (density)
Paternal great grandmother: Italy
Maternal great grandfather: Italy
Maternal great grandmother: Italy

[Al-Meksiki]

Mother

Paternal grandfather: Brazil

Paternal grandmother: Japan

Maternal grandfather: Guatemala

Maternal grandmother: Mexico

Dad

Paternal grandfather: Germany

Paternal grandmother: Germany

Maternal grandfather: Mexico

Maternal grandmother: Mexico

[Smitty]

USA/Turks and Caicos Islands
USA/Ireland
USA/USA
USA/Wales
USA/Lebanon (really don't understand this one, as it's a German surname)
Germany/Austria
Germany/Denmark
Italy/Italy

[Amud]

Dad's side:

Paternal Grandfather: Italy
Paternal Grandmother: Italy
Maternal Grandfather: Wales
Maternal Grandmother: don't know name

Mom's side:

Paternal Grandfather: Wales
Paternal Grandmother: England
Maternal Grandfather: Germany
Maternal Grandmother: United States

[Spyy]

4 of these 8 in my own country, except 1 in Italy, 1 in Panamá and 2 in Portugal

[Mat123]

Paternal side:

Paternal grandfather: Argentina
Paternal grandmother: Isle of Man
Maternal grandfather: American Samoa
Maternal grandmother: Puerto Rico

Maternal side:

Paternal grandfather: Italy
Paternal grandmother: Andorra
Maternal grandfather: Spain
Maternal grandmother: Italy

[Oneeye]

Very interesting results for mine.


I'm going to put the actual origin of the names in parentheses

Father:

Australia (English)
Brazil (German)
Wales (England, but likely distant Welsh)
Jamaica (English)


Mother:

South Africa (English)
Netherlands (German)
Jamaica (Dutch looking? This one has a dead end)
Northern Ireland (English/borderlander)

[Myanthropologies]

I don't know about my dad's side, a lot of the history on his side just isn't there.

[Myanthropologies]

I think afghans only just recently started using surnames as well. My mother's surname peaks the most in Russia and Ukraine which is weird to me. It also peaks in some MENA countries too, but mostly Russia and Ukraine.