How common is your surname in your country?

[Slycooper]

????

[Atlantic Islander]

ppp

[Han Cholo]

Relatively common.

[AlexandraD]

not at all :(

if it was my moms surname, it would be common (very dutch, similar to van sloten, van der vliet). so the story goes on my dads side, our name used to be the german "dietzl" for generations. apparently, our ancestor worked for... william the orange? can't remember. anyways it was a good life but his daughter disgraced williams son or something so rather than face penalty they fled, changing their name to an amalgamation of a german and hungarian word.

its probably all untrue though :laugh: i dont know how reliable it is :)

[Methmatician]

In Australia, there are only two families with my surname. In the former Yugoslavia it's still very uncommon.

[Armando Esteban Quito]

Not common at all.

[Virtuous]

Not very common but it's not rare either.

[Caismeachd]

I don't think it's very common in US but common in Scotland and Australia.

[Slycooper]

Bump

[Sandman]

Very common in Poland.

[Hurrem sultana]

Not common not uncommon

[Methmatician]

Very common in Poland.

Kowalowski?

[Illancha]

I use the name of my teip (clan) as a surname which in general is not a common thing to do.

[rhiannon]

Pretty uncommon.

[Lemon Kush]

In the U.S.A definitely not common. In Bulgaria VERY common. So I guess it depends on the region.

[Roy]

Quite Uncommon, but not very rare.

[Slycooper]

Mine is very common.

[Mans not hot]

Quite Uncommon, but not very rare.
I'm pretty sure I know your surname.

[Albion]

I have a common "Foreign" surname:

Where's yours from? Flanders?

Mine is 212th out of over 9,000 English surnames but only 38,924 people have it as a surname. So it's something like 0.5%, with so many surnames even the relatively common ones aren't very common at all.

[SkyBurn]

Not common at all. Anglicized German-Jewish name.

[Jackson]

Quite common, here's the origin:

http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu7/Brodir93/JacksonPicture.jpg

[Corvus]

Pretty common, even though it is Slavic or Hungarian:

http://verwandt.at.karten.s3.amazonaws.com/p%25C3%25B6tsch_absolute.png

[Heart of Oak]

Not at all really, but go to Scotland, and its like smith or jones in England...

[Vojnik]

I would say it's in the top 10.

[Mans not hot]

Not common nor rare.

[dralos]

my family is the only one who has it so extremely rare

[archangel]

avarage,not so rare or common

[Roy]

My grandmother maiden surname shared only with her brother due to an error in the record, but I know many people with surnames which numbers are less than 50-100 for a whole country according to data.

[Graham]

It's common in Dumfries and Galloway, Cumbria..Where my Grandad is from. There's a few of us. :)

England 1891
http://imageshack.us/a/img546/1658/40674351.jpg

Scotland 1891
http://imageshack.us/a/img407/5539/47482154.jpg

Scotland 1841
http://imageshack.us/a/img90/4392/50502047.jpg

[Smaug]

I have two, an Italian and a British. The Italian is not common, but can be found in São Paulo and in other states that received Italian immigration. My British surname is rare here, and it seems to be not so common even in Britain, even though it is a very Anglo-Saxon surname.

[Just90]

Not very common my surname its French

[Atlantic Islander]

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[Mraz]

In Bosnia not common at all.

[bladieblah]

Both of my surnames are uncommon in England :( my mother's surname isn't really that uncommon, it's just that it was mispelt years ago. In each of the countries my surnames originate from, my mother's surname is quite common, not my father's really though.

[Geni]

absolutely not common

[Damião de Góis]

Only one of my surnames is common, the others are not among the most common.

[Kazimiera]

My mom and I are the only 2 in the country.

[Linet]

unique :cupgold0:

[Philo]

Kinda common

[Medusa]

Cohen
Very uncommon for the rest of the population.

[Mazik]

1959 Swedes got it, so it's kinda uncommon.
In my city it's about 200-300 and they descend from three different non related families who lived during the 18/19th century.

[Albion]

Cohen
Very uncommon for the rest of the population.

Isn't that a Jewish surname?

[Slycooper]

Mine is common. Specifically in my region in Portugal. In Canada also common among Portuguese.

[Medusa]

Isn't that a Jewish surname?

Of course it is.

[EvilDave]

My surname should be the 5th (i don't remember much) most diffused in my country.

[larali]

Very uncommon.....

[RussiaPrussia]

not so commen

[heygum]

extremely rare high five

[Sippola]

Somewhat common in Finland.

Super uncommon in the USA.

[Lithium]

Mine is one of the most popular in Bulgaria. It's also quite popular in Russia, Poland and Ukraine.

[arcticwolf]

Not very common, not very, very rare. Very old last name, one of the oldest last names in the country, unmodified by ski at the end. LOL

[Aredhel]

Not so common, but my surname is spanish

[Stanley]

Fairly rare—never met a non-relative who shared it. It's one of those English -ey enders (and not Stanley). With it arriving in The Colonies several centuries ago I would have thought it to be more common.

Perhaps more common in the South of England?
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee427/JH9020/69934da0-4573-422e-8ac9-9147eb49b38f_zps86dde472.jpg

[bella1407]

My last name is rare because its non-Russian. And it's hard to pronounce.
Im wanting to legally change my last name to my mothers maiden name. My mother's maiden name is typical Russian, although not very popular.

[Albion]

I think one of the worst surnames is 'Smith' - absolutely useless if you want to have an idea of where it's from since it's rather pan-Western European and extremely common.


My last name is rare because its non-Russian. And it's hard to pronounce.
Im wanting to legally change my last name to my mothers maiden name. My mother's maiden name is typical Russian, although not very popular.

Is it Russian.

[Atlantic Islander]

'''

[Partizan]

Not too common, not too rare. Though if my greatparents would stay with "family title" from Ottoman period, we'd be one of two families who use this surname in Turkey.

[Hoca]

common common

[askra]

Common only in Sardinia, not in mainland Italy (except for the Province of Rome)

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/i/8824-210201334258am.png

[Oneeye]

My surname is so rare that most, if not all the people who also share it are descended from my great, great, great grandfather. Over a hundred and six thousand surnames are more common than it.


Check out how yours ranks here:

http://www.americansurnames.us/surname/RANK/

[Germanicus]

I have a surname that is 85 per million in the UK

[Atlantic Islander]

'''

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

My surname is so rare that most, if not all the people who also share it are descended from my great, great, great grandfather. Over a hundred thousand, six thousand surnames are more common than it.


Check out how your's ranks here:

http://www.americansurnames.us/surname/RANK/

There are less than 300 people in the world with my surname. My surname comes from a hamlet in Galicia.


Sorry, we don't have any information about the ************ surname. If this really is your surname, then congratulations - you are a genuine rarity, at least in the USA.

[Germanicus]

I think one of the worst surnames is 'Smith' - absolutely useless if you want to have an idea of where it's from since it's rather pan-Western European and extremely common.



Is it Russian.

I still think you are in for a shock with your 23and me results

[Oneeye]

According to that website, there are only 155 of us in the USA, none in other countries. So 155 out of, what, almost 300,000,000?

My surname is a partial anglocization of a German surname. It hasn't been tracked back any further than to some German-American Lutheran church records in 1800.

[larali]

According to that website, there are only 155 of us in the USA, none in other countries. So 155 out of, what, almost 300,000,000?

My surname is a partial anglocization of a German surname. It hasn't been tracked back any further than to some German-American Lutheran church records in 1800.

My maiden name is as well. It is very uncommon here in the US. Not sure how common it is in Germany. There are other derivatives of the name that are more common, especially within German Mennonite communities.

[bella1407]

Is it Russian.

?
My last name is not Russian.

[Heart of Oak]

I have a surname that is 85,000 per million in the UK

Smith would be better....:tongue

[Graham]

Smith is an unfortunate name for any Brit to have. Family tree must be impossible to do.

[Styggnacke]

One of the 10 most common.

[Albion]

I still think you are in for a shock with your 23and me results

FTDNA, and stop trolling me. :rolleyes:

[Lobotomist]

Very common in Denmark and Norway.

[Útrám]

It's patronymic, thus it depends entirely on how common my father's first name would be. In my case it's pretty high up there.

[Graham]

Check out how yours ranks here:

http://www.americansurnames.us/surname/RANK/
Rank State/Country
83. North Carolina
141. Mississippi
147. Alabama
175. Georgia
210. Kentucky
252. Australia
266. USA
303. UK
319. Florida.
348. Texas
498. California

[Oneeye]

State Rank Frequency%

Maryland 12275 0.001
South Carolina 16929 0.000
Florida 81881 0.000
West Virginia 15518 0.000
Georgia 55118 0.000

[MfA_]

Very uncommon, it's a genuine rarity.. People cant even pronounce it correctly when they hear it first time..

[Vulcho]

Mine is very uncommon. It's believed that all people with this surname have a common ancestor. He probably lived in the Serres area in Northern Greece, since many of the family branches have memories of origin from that region. The name is pretty old compared to most Bulgarian surnames.

[Oneeye]

It looks like having an uncommon surname attracts people to genetics. There sure is a lot of people here with rare names.

[Atlantic Islander]

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[ETKearne]

My surname, Kearney, is either somewhat uncommon to extremely rare, depending on where in the USA you are talking about. When I lived in Maryland as a young child, it was not common, but I ran into a few others with variants of this name (Carney, O'Cairneigh, etc. all valid - in fact, my version is a pretty poor Anglicization IMO). Living in heavily German Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from ages 5-24, the name was even more uncommon. However, I would occasionally meet another Kearney/Carneigh. Now that I live in "The Deep South" in Mississippi where almost all of the whites are of English descent (last names like "Brown" etc. most common) is name is extremely rare. I stick out somewhat as a white person who has dark hair and who can actually tan here, because everyone else is either very pink-skinned and light haired or they are blacks haha.

[Manuel]

Extremely common at least in Crete.

[Ivan Kramskoï]

Common but not widespread

[Virtuous]

Super mega awesome epic incredibly rarititties, my surname is provenient from outer space. Yes, I just added an Italian word to the English dictionary. Thank me later, Peyrol.

[Virtuous]

What is it? I am nosey.

Aye, dat punch-able nose of yours.

[Virtuous]

Poke your eye out.

Why, man? Why?

[Virtuous]

Anyone says I am punch-able, I stab them them with keltic-Nordid nose.

Your nose looks sharp as a blade, indeed.

[Arend]

Not very common in the country as a whole, but in my region it’s rather common. It’s actually far more common in Belgium (Flanders) than in Germany, it also appears in the Netherlands but very rarely

[Atlantic Islander]

;;;

[Lena]

Not common in Serbia. I googled about variations and my surname: The surname can be English, Scottish, Irish, Polish, French, Catalan, Greek, Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, Croatian, Hungarian.
Go figure lol!

[Windischer]

my surname occurs often among rusnaks and rusyns in my region and in diaspora. the branch of my family from which i have got my surname is quite numerous :D
from overall point of view its rare, though.

[Szegedist]

Not common at all.

But the surname I have now isn't actually my real family surname. My grandfather was forced to change his name to a Slovak surname otherwise deportation :banghead:. I will change it back one day.

[Albion]

Not common in Serbia. I googled about variations and my surname: The surname can be English, Scottish, Irish, Polish, French, Catalan, Greek, Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, Croatian, Hungarian.
Go figure lol!

It's smith or green, isn't it? :D

[Lena]

It's smith or green, isn't it? :D

Nope lol!

[Thor2009]

If we're going by my legal last name, it's not very common.

My blood last name (father was adopted) is one of the top 10 most common last names in the country.

[Sblast]

Not common at all.

[Pleurat]

common in the region i am from

[Pleurat]

Not common in Serbia. I googled about variations and my surname: The surname can be English, Scottish, Irish, Polish, French, Catalan, Greek, Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, Croatian, Hungarian.
Go figure lol!

Slavicised or serbicised hungaro-germano-austro-russian.

[Dombra]

My first, uncommon in Sweden. My second, common in France

[Lena]

Slavicised or serbicised hungaro-germano-austro-russian.

Hehehehe! Nah :wink

[Corvus]

Very widespread in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic

[Minesweeper]

Not common but present ofc. It's originally from Dalmatia.

When I google my surname, it shows it's most common in Canada, UK and Autralia. I'm sure my surname is not Anglo-Saxon or Celtic though. xD

[Lena]

When I google my surname, it shows it's most common in Canada, UK and Autralia. I'm sure my surname is not Anglo-Saxon or Celtic though. xD

:lol: I won't say a single word here.
BTW, one person told me that my granny's maiden name is from Dalmatia, but I must investigate it further...

[Peikko]

Rare

[Maximum Speed]

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7303/dtg.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/90/dtg.gif/)

[Szegedist]

Rare

Does it have at least 3 Ks, 2 Os, 3 ä , 5 Ls 6 Ns?

[Peyrol]

Rare... (Italy and US):

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4499/cognomeitaliausa.png

[Artek]

Not so common and not a very rare either(certainly not widespread!), concentrated mostly in and around a certain city in Southern Poland.
Was present in XIII century census.

It's on 5425th place when it comes to the frequency.

[Zmey Gorynych]

Very rare, I have never met a person with a similar surname that wasn't my relative. I've done a little research and apparently it's present only in the village my father originates from. There are only a few families with that name and they're all related.

[Artek]

Very rare, I have never met a person with a similar surname that wasn't my relative. I've done a little research and apparently it's present only in the village my father originates from. There are only a few families with that name and they're all related.
What's the eding of your surname? -ov, -in?

[Hevo]

Rare, it's old Dutch spelling and only a bit common in my area.

[mr. logan]

19 people in a phone book on a 2.000.000 city.

[Aunt Hilda]

Rare, even in Germany.

[Steinkopf]

Rare, but I've saw it in Peru and Spain. It's an Italian lastname.

[Temujin]

Fairly common in my country. It's very common in the neighbouring country. People in the neighbouring country added suffix to my surname which sounds peculiar to my Mongol ears. ;)

[Scroll Lock]

no

[Manifest Destiny]

Mine is very rare. Rare to the point that anyone who has the same last name as me is probably fairly close blood relative (or a woman married to one of my close blood relatives).

[armenianbodyhair]

Not very.

[Benacer]

Relatively common.

[Permafrost]

There is a Slovene architect and a skier bearing my surname. Germanic origin. Uncommon.

[Shah-Jehan]

Kind of common...

[Roy]

Rare, but not very rare (about 1000 people in my country share it). Most popular in a place my grandfather hails from.

[Minel]

Very, very common and the other is extremely rare.

[KrashNick]

Very Rare .

[La Misse]

There are 3tribes with the same surname as me in Albania, 1 in Kosovo and 1 in Montenegro. It's not usual, unique :p But it ends with ''AJ'' which is typical for Albanian surnames.

[RandoBloom]

There are 3tribes with the same surname as me in Albania, 1 in Kosovo and 1 in Montenegro. It's not usual, unique :p But it ends with ''AJ'' which is typical for Albanian surnames.

Haradinaj :D ?

[La Misse]

Haradinaj :D ?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lximutucoO1qb6t6wo1_500.png

[KrashNick]

There are 3tribes with the same surname as me in Albania, 1 in Kosovo and 1 in Montenegro. It's not usual, unique :p But it ends with ''AJ'' which is typical for Albanian surnames.

maybe i know your surname :laugh:

[Skerdilaid]

Common among the übermensch in my country.

[KrashNick]

Common among the übermensch in my country.

And which is your surname.... :rolleyes: ?

[RandoBloom]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lximutucoO1qb6t6wo1_500.png

Why not :D
You would have him as a cousin
http://www.kosovo.net/ramush.jpg

[La Misse]

maybe i know your surname :laugh:

Maybe i know yours too...

[Agron]

In the region I'm am from, there are some people with the same surname as me, but more than half of them belong to my family. In fact all the descendants of my ancestor (who was the first to move in our current village, he lived around 200-250 years ago) carry his name as surname. My close family is the only who stayed in this village, the majority have moved to other villages or in the city but all carry his name.

And it's only a little common in my region. In Kosova, Albania and other regions of Macedonia it's very uncommon.

[iNird]

Well my father's "family" name is not that common but is 100% Albanian origin.

My surname is a typical one found in most Balkan muslim countries or atleast a variation of it. Though the name itself could be translated in Albanian but regardless it is not of albanian origin.

[dude]

Very uncommon but well know in some parts. There is a major street named after in a major city and the surname has historical significance.

[KrashNick]

Maybe i know yours too...

Damn you got me :thumb001:

[La Misse]

Why not :D
You would have him as a cousin
http://www.kosovo.net/ramush.jpg

I'm a cousin with half Albanians :o . I go out with my gandfather in our city and i see guys and girls came and talk to us, they know my name, and ask me things about my life. And i'm kind of this: :noidea:
then my grandpa says that they are my 7th cousnis. So it's not impossible :p

[Aerin]

One of them is really uncommon, and the other one is very common.

[iNird]

There are 3tribes with the same surname as me in Albania, 1 in Kosovo and 1 in Montenegro. It's not usual, unique :p But it ends with ''AJ'' which is typical for Albanian surnames.

i thought tosk don't have names that end with "aj" you must be lab.

[dude]

Cohen
Very uncommon for the rest of the population.

Very common in LA, it is a Jewish last name.

[La Misse]

Damn you got me :thumb001:

Smund te ishte ndryshe... ;)

[La Misse]

i thought tosk don't have names that end with "aj" you must be lab.

what??? :rotfl: Tosks have surnames with ''Aj'' Ghegs not so much. By the way, gjyshja eshte labe.

[Agron]

what??? :rotfl: Tosks have surnames with ''Aj'' Ghegs not so much. By the way, gjyshja eshte labe.

I would say it's the other way.
Shumica që kan emra me "aj" në fund jan të kosovës.

[La Misse]

I would say it's the other way.
Shumica që kan emra me "aj" në fund jan të kosovës.

Mbase ashtu ka qene me perpara por tani gjysmat jane me aj ne toskeri. Una kam kusherinj nga vlora edhe iu mbaron mbiemri me ''u'' edhe ''i''

[Smaug]

The Italian can be found amongst the Italian community, but I wouldn't say it is common. The British is rare, my family is the only one in the country with this surname.

[Agron]

Mbase ashtu ka qene me perpara por tani gjysmat jane me aj ne toskeri. Una kam kusherinj nga vlora edhe iu mbaron mbiemri me ''u'' edhe ''i''
Mund të jetë ashtu se nuk e di si është situata në shqipëri, por të gjith personat që i kam parë me emra me aj kan qënë prej kosove.

[Skerdilaid]

And which is your surname.... :rolleyes: ?

As I said only übermensch carrie it, and an Albo god had it as first name:rolleyes:

[La Misse]

Mund të jetë ashtu se nuk e di si është situata në shqipëri, por të gjith personat që i kam parë me emra me aj kan qënë prej kosove.

Ndersa un e kunderta, me te shumtit nga kosova i kam pare me -a, -u, -i

Jemi perjer tani :p

[La Misse]

As I said only übermensch carrie it, and an Albo god had it as first name:rolleyes:

Dralosaj? :lol: kiddin' :p

[KrashNick]

As I said only übermensch carrie it, and an Albo god had it as first name:rolleyes:

I see .... :rolleyes: .

[Balmung]

You will find it ever so often in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest (as well as most of the West). Sometimes in the South like Texas as well as California among those who did not anglicize.

Washington, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas, California are where most of my doppelgangers reside, but it can be found in practically every state somewhere.

[Skerdilaid]

Dralosaj? :lol: kiddin' :p

Why do you have to insult me?

[Skerdilaid]

I see .... :rolleyes: .

Ok Krasniqi ;)


Why don't you take a wild guess?

[La Misse]

Why do you have to insult me?

KrashNickaj? :LOL:

[Skerdilaid]

KrashNickaj? :LOL:

No, AnnaBrunnet:rolleyes:

[Leon_C]

My Father's surname is pretty common throughout the British Isles, especially Scotland and Ireland. My Mother's is pretty uncommon, and tends to be found only in England, I have a hyphenated surname.

[Agron]

Ndersa un e kunderta, me te shumtit nga kosova i kam pare me -a, -u, -i

Jemi perjer tani :p

po nuk thash se shumica të kosovës kan emra me -aj, por se shumica e personave që kam parë me emrin me aj ishin nga kosova.

Hajt thojm se jena barabartë, se un nuk i di fort mirë mbiemrat që përdoren në jug të shqipëris ;)

[RandoBloom]

Albanians, how common is last name Gjika, where is it from, who carries it

[La Misse]

No, AnnaBrunnet:rolleyes:

BrunetteAnnaj :p

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Used to be unheard of, but it's spreading like wildfire. It will be the next jones or smith in a couple hundred years if this keeps up.

[KrashNick]

Ok Krasniqi ;)


Why don't you take a wild guess?
ok Thaci
Mos um shti me shku neser komun Drenasit me ta gjet mbiemerin :D

[Leadchucker]

Less than 1000 out of 313 million with most locally here in South Jersey

[La Misse]

Albanians, how common is last name Gjika, where is it from, who carries it

Hoxha, Berisha, Beqiri, Krasniqi.

[Skerdilaid]

ok Thaci
Mos um shti me shku neser komun Drenasit me ta gjet mbiemerin :D

E qysh do me gjet ti?:rolleyes:

[RandoBloom]

Hoxha, Berisha, Beqiri, Krasniqi.


Arent those last names as well?
I ment Tosk and such in the part - who wears it :D
Can you explain.

[KidMulat]

My last name is rare but found out that my surname was some state Supreme Court judge's middle name that his mulatto took because wasn't allowed to and his father wouldn't legitimize him.

[KrashNick]

E qysh do me gjet ti?:rolleyes:

Se veq 2 mbiemra I kom kry :D

[Skerdilaid]

Se veq 2 mbiemra I kom kry :D

Pa hajt thuj se qe ja qellon, pa te tregu nuk e la:D

[Skerdilaid]

Arent those last names as well?
I ment Tosk and such in the part - who wears it :D
Can you explain.

It mostly Tosk.

[RandoBloom]

It mostly Tosk.

Ok. Why doesnt it end in aj and such, and why does it have G & J together :P ?

[La Misse]

Arent those last names as well?
I ment Tosk and such in the part - who wears it :D
Can you explain.
These surnames that i posted are some of the most usual. Hoxha is very famous in Albania.
The meaning of Gjika has not been submitted

Read more: http://surnames.meaning-of-names.com/gjika/#ixzz2mjScIciC

[Skerdilaid]

Ok. Why doesnt it end in aj and such, and why does it have G & J together :P ?

Not all Albo names end in aj:D G+J equals the English Ge as in Gorge. G by itself in Albanian is pronounced in the same way as in Garments. So G+J equals your Dj.

[RandoBloom]

Not all Albo names end in aj:D G+J equals the English Ge as in Gorge. G by itself in Albanian is pronounced in the same way as in Garments. So G+J equals your Dj.


I know. So its Đika :D?
Strange :D
What does it mean, does it have a meaning

[dralos]

mine is ultra rare

[Skerdilaid]

I know. So its Đika :D?
Strange :D
What does it mean, does it have a meaning
Most likely it's a transformed Christian name, it's an old Albo name name like Gjin, Gjergj etc

[DarkSecret]

Although some musicians have it in Turkey , it is not common at all..

[Leo Iscariot]

Not very. I've yet to meet or hear of another person that has it.

[paksaltopam]

I think it's like #63 in the country? So fairly common. It's an extremely common Scandy name.

[Didriksson]

Not common at all, in fact all people bearing the same surname must be my relatives. :D

[Ammianus]

Well it's not native to this country but nevertheless is probably not rare due to the amount of Italian descendants in the US.

[Inconnue]

????

Father: very common
Mother: very uncommon.

[Peyrol]

My surname in Europe

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/854/ka8i.png (https://imageshack.com/i/nqka8ip)


( ^ thake that, users ''alps are a strong and impassable cultural barrier'', lol :lol:)

[Proctor]

Not very common amongst contemporary Americans at all. I inherited it from my French Canadian side.

[Atlantic Islander]

Idk, it's common in the Azores.

[1stLightHorse]

Rare in Australia, England and Ireland.

Reaches highest frequencies in Bristol and Gloucestershire.

[Celxon]

It's very common....in County Mayo. Here, any number of Spanish surnames are more common, and we live in the Midwest! The old census-takers and record-keepers messed up the spelling too. That makes it even less common, in a way.

[Atlantic Islander]

Top Countries
UNITED STATES
CANADA
LUXEMBOURG
FRANCE
DENMARK
SWITZERLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
ARGENTINA
IRELAND
BELGIUM

My Surname in Europe (no info on Portugal, lame):

http://imageshack.com/a/img571/7851/o2m6.png

My Surname in North America:

http://imageshack.com/a/img580/386/9lca.png

[Atlantic Islander]

Lol at most saying their surname is rare. Special snowflakes.

[McCauley]

Lol at most saying their surname is rare. Special snowflakes.

I am a special snowflake, I really do have a super unique last name.

[portusaus]

Somewhat rare. Somebody in my high school shared the same spelling, but was from a different family and it was pronounced different.

[vibrant_]

I think it's rare. It's more common in Puerto Rico I think.

[Maleficent]

http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm

Mother's surname

Rank/Population/Frequency
7920 3875 1.44

Father's surname

Rank/Population/Frequency
19840 1254 0.46

My mom's is definitely rare in America and anywhere, it peaks in only one county back in England(Lancashire). It has been said that anyone bearing this surname is descendant of the same ancestor who emigrated to America in the 1500s. We all with this name are distant cousins with each other.

My dad's is rare in America, but unfortunately a very common one back in the Middle East. Good thing his family is very well-known in his particular region of the country back home over there! Also, my father's surname is not the original surname of his direct paternal line. Apparently his particular branch of the family broke off from the 'greater clan'(of the original surname and village) a few centuries ago and formed their own sub-branch. When this happened the last name was changed to that of the first name of his direct paternal great-grandfather from a few centuries ago.

[Weedman]

Father: very common
Mother: very uncommon.

same here

[Weedman]

Very common surnames:
Brown
Evans
Willis
Thompson
Smith
Murray

common:
Decker
Hickman
Byrd
Loveless
Bowles
Oliphant
Meadows
Chester

rare:
Clinard
Demonbreun


1.English names:Evans, Willis, Hickman, Byrd, Loveless, Bowles, Meadows, Chester

2.Scotch-Irish names :Brown, Thompson, Murray, Smith, Oliphant

3. German names : Decker, Clinard

4.French (Canadienne) : Demonbreun

[Äijä]

Everyone with the name is related to me.

[roro4721]

As far as I've been able to trace back, nobody in my family has an uncommon last name.

[Stormer99]

http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm

Mother's surname

Rank/Population/Frequency
7920 3875 1.44

Father's surname

Rank/Population/Frequency
19840 1254 0.46

My mom's is definitely rare in America and anywhere, it peaks in only one county back in England(Lancashire). It has been said that anyone bearing this surname is descendant of the same ancestor who emigrated to America in the 1500s. We all with this name are distant cousins with each other.

My dad's is rare in America, but unfortunately a very common one back in the Middle East. Good thing his family is very well-known in his particular region of the country back home over there! Also, my father's surname is not the original surname of his direct paternal line. Apparently his particular branch of the family broke off from the 'greater clan'(of the original surname and village) a few centuries ago and formed their own sub-branch. When this happened the last name was changed to that of the first name of his direct paternal great-grandfather from a few centuries ago.


Want to tell the forum what exactly your family is famous for?
Don't be bashful dear, I know it's not TOO stereotypical ;)

[Celxon]

Very common surnames:
Brown
Evans
Willis
Thompson
Smith
Murray

common:
Decker
Hickman
Byrd
Loveless
Bowles
Oliphant
Meadows
Chester

rare:
Clinard
Demonbreun


1.English names:Evans, Willis, Hickman, Byrd, Loveless, Bowles, Meadows, Chester

2.Scotch-Irish names :Brown, Thompson, Murray, Smith, Oliphant

3. German names : Decker, Clinard

4.French (Canadienne) : Demonbreun

Are those names in your family tree? By some crazy coincidence, I have two or three Smith lines. What are the odds! Seriously, "Evans" often is a Welsh surname. My Evans line came from Wales. I won't list all of my surnames, but I'll break it down like this. Of my sixteen great-grandparents' surnames, four were English, four were native Irish, four were Scottish (Highland and Lowland) and four were other. All of them, in the "other" category, were changed to English-sounding surnames.

[Smitty]

#1, I believe, which kind of gives that away. Aside from the genealogical implications, it has served me well.

[Mr Moi]

Spelled my way with an E at the end my last name is about 230th in the USA. Take away the E at the end and it jumps to 37th most common...

[Trogdor]

Extremely uncommon. Never met anyone outside my family with my surname.

[Pendragon]

My name:
http://gen3553.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/names1.png

My mother's name:
http://gen3553.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/names2.png

[Diamantino]

mine is Peixoto
average,not so rare or common in Portugal in Brasil maybe the same

[Journeyman26]

Very uncommon with it's spelling.. but with all regional variants not that uncommon. With its 'i' suffix most common in Tuscany, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy; but I believe there are many variants with an 'o' suffix that are common in the Naples area.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Someone kinda famous has it, other than that I never heard of anyone with the same last name who wasn't a close relative.

[Neon Knight]

My surname:

http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/uu295/Alchemyst/Surname%20Distribution_zpsdggm6yr6.png

My mother's Maiden name:

http://i657.photobucket.com/albums/uu295/Alchemyst/Ms%20Mdn%20Name%20Distribution_zpsqz4gu7rv.png

[Special K]

According to http://forebears.co.uk/surnames there are only 87 people in the world with my surname, which makes it pretty rare.

It is so rare because I think the name was only made 6 generations before me and it is likely that everyone with my name is related to me. My name is mostly found in the USA, UK and Canada. There are also apparently a few people with the name in Greece (but I thought it would be more since that is where the name comes from) and 1 person with my name in Germany, Australia and even Lebanon.

But my mother's surname, Roberts, is common in the UK, especially in North Wales.

[XvThomas_LysergicV]

My last name is uncommon but I wouldn't say it was rare. I've never met someone in real life who had the same last name as me but i've seen a few people on the internet who did. The origins of my last name is Irish,so I'm sure its common in Ireland. The origins of my mother's maiden name is English/German. Its common but i've yet to meet someone in person who had that same last name. I live in a small town,so maybe that's why.

[Heart of Oak]

My name:
http://gen3553.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/names1.png

My mother's name:
http://gen3553.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/names2.png

Are you telling people your name is Pendragon? Or do you report to another name...

[Heart of Oak]

My last name is from the Scottish Highlander of which we have our own Tartan...

[Taiga Lake]

Not very common, only my family has this surname in Finland (and Scandinavia, also perhaps in USA because i have distant relatives in there).

[Skjaldemjøden]

Completely unique as a surname, as is my mother's maiden name, the reason being that both my grandfathers changed their surnames before they got married.

[Diamantino]

Update:

56325

Country Incidence Frequency Rank in Nation
Brazil 165,927 1: 1,223 159
Portugal 15,330 1: 683 120
Angola 5,802 1: 3,306 403
Mozambique 2,407 1: 9,847 1,362
France 1,874 1: 35,197 4,336
United States 1,328 1: 241,167 23,455
India 588 1: 2,122,483 51,179
Spain 588 1: 79,095 6,982
Germany 572 1: 141,112 18,206
Peru 484 1: 63,666 5,220

[Anima Libera]

Very very uncommon

[Mr Moi]

Greene, but my GG Grandfather Nathaniel spelled it Green... Any other colors out there?

[Pendragon]

Are you telling people your name is Pendragon? Or do you report to another name...
My real surname, and my mother's surname.

If you want to known,
my surname is the same that of this French actress:
http://img3.telestar.fr/var/telestar/storage/images/media/images/import-wp/hamon-310/158823-1-fre-FR/hamon-310_large.jpg

my mother's surname is the surname, in the television series NCIS: Los Angeles, that play this actor (Miguel Ferrer):
http://cdn2.ecelebs.com/miguel-ferrer-med-tn.jpg

[Heart of Oak]

My real surname, and my mother's surname.

If you want to known,
my surname is the same that of this French actress:
http://img3.telestar.fr/var/telestar/storage/images/media/images/import-wp/hamon-310/158823-1-fre-FR/hamon-310_large.jpg

my mother's surname is the surname, in the television series NCIS: Los Angeles, that play this actor (Miguel Ferrer):
http://cdn2.ecelebs.com/miguel-ferrer-med-tn.jpg

Okay means little to me hayho, I don't watch much TV and I'm terrible with names, however I am familer with google so I ll look them up, I was not being predantic or truckulant mearly pondering the fact I had come across another Pendragon and if you had told me your first name was Uther, I know most of the Wiltshire/somerset Pendragons some welsh too...

[Green]

The 20 most common surnames in Spain.


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yP3tLN-RdJg/VSJGNo-ZQlI/AAAAAAAACpQ/gdgDnwgwh-g/w170-h471-no/apellidos.jpg

[♥ Lily ♥]

I looked it up on a UK surname distribution site and there's approximately 373 people with my surname in the UK. That makes it the 11,957th most common surname overall. One in every 6 million people in the UK. I like my surname as it has a lovely meaning in the English language and makes people smile. It's mainly distributed in the region of England in where I was born and grew up, and I saw an Australian actress once with the same surname.

[Marshmallow Fluff]

My surname is very uncommon. I'd say there is probably 3,000 people or less with my surname. :P

[blogen]

I am the only one.

[EL_BARBARO]

Extremely uncommon. I usually have to spell it if I want it to be written right.

At the Pyrenees it is a just a little more common -just a little- with some similar forms of it, on both sides of the spanish-french border.

It has no meaning in Castillian, but meaningful in Euskara.

[Imamudin]

In Germany not very common since here are not so much Chechens.

[Velda]

Not common. People think, I was of my mother's generation, because it is old fashioned.

[Hungarian_master]

Very rare (almost non-exist) in Hungary.

[Alvy83]

My paternal surname isn't common at all, maybe in the Northwestern regions of Mexico in the states of Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora and Chihuahua. My maternal surname, on the other hand, is quite common. So much so that a few known Latinos in the US share this surname with me, just ask JLo :p

[marioneira]

Almost unheard of. I was born in Cuba and look at the map where my surname is common

http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o757/chikineiramarioneira/Neira%20Map_zpslmoub5ld.jpg (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/chikineiramarioneira/media/Neira%20Map_zpslmoub5ld.jpg.html)

[SupaThug]

Very common,my two surnames are among the 20 most common surnames in Brazil.

[Incel King]

It's one of most rares surnames in my ethinicity.

[Neon Knight]

Very rare in England, rare in Ireland.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

In 1990, it was ranked #203 most common name.
In 2000, it was ranked #177 most common name.

In USA

[RenaRyuguu]

My paternal surname is not common at all. It was occupational. It was changed for whatever reason

[joanna_38]

My surname "Dimou" is very prevalent in Greece, but mostly centered into the region of Arta.(around that specific area.)
Arta is somewhat western central Greece, from what i remember.
And yes, its uncommon, but not that rare. Most people here ask me if i have any relations with a female singer who just so happens to have that surname.
But yeah, kinda rare & unique. Not that common, from what i noticed. (at least personally, haven't met anyone with that surname.)

[pajkosbalna]

In top 10 both my fathers and mothers surname

[Teutone]

Frisian/nordic -son name, common in my state and in the Netherlands but uncommon everywhere else.

[TheMaestro]

Neither, dads and moms surnames are almost non-existent, in my country.

[KirillMazur]

For an unprepared person, my last name sounds like Polish (-skiy, plus a couple of hissing consonants). But in fact, this surname is found only in Belarus, Ukraine (less often) and in the west and south-west of Russia, only among ethnic Slavs.
Rare enough, but not so much, I can immediately recall two relatively famous people with this last name.

[Pribislav]

My surname carry 1681 people in Serbia, 1553 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 661 in Croatia, 244 in Slovenia, and 27 in Montenegro.

[Jana]

Very rare, it exist only in few villages in western Istria, region I have no connection with.

[Pribislav]

Very rare, it exist only in few villages in western Istria, region I have no connection with.

Second sentence https://www.geni.com/surnames/vukojevi%C4%87

[Aspirin]

My surname is very common, he is common in Eastern Romania too (Moldova region, Northeastern Wallachia)
https://pp.userapi.com/c850132/v850132804/f0d8a/J9wvXckl20g.jpg
https://pp.userapi.com/c850132/v850132804/f0d78/yRr07gWv9qQ.jpg

[Jana]

Second sentence https://www.geni.com/surnames/vukojevi%C4%87

I don't have my direct paternal line surname. When my grandfather was born, he was given his mother's surname because his father was a muslim and Christian-Muslim couples could not marry under law at that time.

[Pribislav]

I don't have my direct paternal line surname. When my grandfather was born, he was given his mother's surname because his father was a muslim and Christian-Muslim couples could not marry under law at that time.

Do you know surname of your direct paternal line?

[Jana]

Do you know surname of your direct paternal line?

Yes, it's the one I told you.

[Mr.G]

Maternal - most common in Ashkenazi but also German in general.

Paternal - Hungarian place name, a town in the Northeastern region of the old empire. Rare, I only know of one well known Hungarian with it. Spelling was changed by my Grandfather here in the US to make it seem less ethnic.

[nittionia]

Apparently 12 in America
https://i.imgur.com/nSysiXF.jpg


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[Ford]

I have never met or heard of anyone with the same surname that wasn't family in some way. Barely exceeds 400 according to forebears.

[Voskos]

My surname carry 1681 people in Serbia, 1553 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 661 in Croatia, 244 in Slovenia, and 27 in Montenegro.

How many in Albania and Bulgaria?

[Westbrook]

Place
Incidence
Frequency
Rank in Area


United States
28,264
1:1:12,826
1,588


England
2,347
1:1:23,740
3,286


Australia
1,325
1:1:20,374
2,810


Canada
664
1:1:55,490
6,574

[Benyzero]

Not common.

[PaleoEuropean]

Common but not a name you hear everyday. It's a noble name but it's common in a lot of places where people from my ethnic backround settled. A very name common for black people through slavery as well but mostly from a different family of the same name. My ancestors only ever owned around 10 slaves at any given time, but I have matches through slavery.