How common is your last name in America

[Tear Fan]

Joanne -

Don't feel alone . . . I am not on the list, either. I have a Swiss last name. Go figure.

Marvin

[Mike B]

Burton is number 230 on the list. I kind of figured that, as you should see the number of Michael Burtons, and even Michael P. Burtons, you run across with Google.

There was another Michael Burton here in Hayden Lake a couple of years ago. He taught nursing at the North Idaho Training center; at a different time, I taught computers there. He left here under a cloud and I am still getting phone calls about his debts. I really hate others besmirching my name....


Mike
Hayden Lake, ID
http://www.blogicalthoughts.com/

[AmyH]

1538 for my last name.

[Juneaudave]

Burton is number 230 on the list. I kind of figured that, as you should see the number of Michael Burtons, and even Michael P. Burtons, you run across with Google.

There was another Michael Burton here in Hayden Lake a couple of years ago. He taught nursing at the North Idaho Training center; at a different time, I taught computers there. He left here under a cloud and I am still getting phone calls about his debts. I really hate others besmirching my name....


Mike
Hayden Lake, ID
http://www.blogicalthoughts.com/

#7...the other Dave Miller is the one in the police blotter...

[curiouswill]

well considering that this list is only based on 50,000, I wouldn't depend on this as an accurate deciption of how high is your surname ranked among the americans nationally. this is more equilivant to an ranking system in a town.

here is a better source of informations for your surname ranking by the 1990 census though I don't really understand the resulting information myself.

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html

My last name is Stroud and it ranked 1264 on the census site.


P.S. Danny, this is not meant to go against you or something, I merely wish to help clarify some of the ideas i seems to be seeing here.

P.S. oh i looked around and it seems like tonyj have been to this site also. (that is how he got the top 10 search result)

[Bigwoods]

That's interesting! I thought I would be around 30,000 but it was 1177.

[Jst83]

Thurston is 2336 on one list and 2189 on the other, Pretty close. I didn't think Thurston would be that common

[PapaJ]

1159 On the first list

933 on the second.

[Podunkfla]

Brickman is surname number 17237 in the USA

...is 19791 on the census list

I guess there aren't many of us... All the ones I know are related.

[angib]

20,679 on the first list and 17,334 on the second, if spelt correctly (Gibbens) - but 1,112 if spelt the way most people do (Gibbons).

Oh, wait, I'm not in the USA.........

Andrew

[Miriam C.]

Married name is # 42. pretty common.

Maiden name is #33. Heck I'm a mutttttt.

Mothers maiden name is # 1883. Perdue. I think there is another spelling too.

[bledsoe3]

1543

hey Jim, one of my best friends in high school was Matt Bledsoe...duyano him.... ..........

Don't know him. There seems to be a lot of "us" back in Tenn. When we first moved to Portland we were the only Bledsoe's. Now there are lots and one with my same first name and I don't know any of them.

[Sierra Ray]

#19 for me.
Go figure, my Dr. had 7 of us with the same
first and last names as patients. I used to check the chart
after she asked me how my pacemaker was doing.
I don't have a pacemaker.
I moved from San Antonio to the beautiful Sierra Nevadas
and I'm the only one here.

[Finntec]

Finney is surname number 1764 in the USA.

[Lynne]

I'm 1959 on the first list and 1843 on the census. Pretty close