How common is your surname in your country?

**Germanicus** · 02-10-2013, 02:34 AM

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

**Atlantic Islander** · 02-10-2013, 02:35 AM

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**Colonel Frank Grimes** · 02-10-2013, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by 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 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** · 02-10-2013, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

Is it Russian.

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

**Oneeye** · 02-10-2013, 02:42 AM

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 · 02-10-2013, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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.