Author Topic: surname search: How many people share your last name around the world? (Read 7245 times)

Flannel Boy · « **on:** September 07, 2008, 10:11:58 PM »

By the world, I actually mean 26 countries. I thought I'd make this thread before they added Middle Eastern countries.

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Top Countries
Country   FPM
POLAND   403.47
SLOVENIA   142.1
AUSTRIA   60.71
HUNGARY   60.14
GERMANY   28.98
UNITED STATES   17.47
AUSTRALIA   17.09
LUXEMBOURG   17
FRANCE   15.43
CANADA   12.61

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:15:13 PM »

GERMANY   8.08
UNITED STATES   0.82
SWITZERLAND   0.64
AUSTRIA   0.4
CANADA   0.23
FRANCE   0.1

rare last name

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:15:28 PM »

AUSTRALIA   12254.2
UNITED KINGDOM   12176.54
NEW ZEALAND   10161.73
UNITED STATES   9000.49
IRELAND   4559.88
CANADA   3093.57
NORWAY   347.8
DENMARK   302.94
NETHERLANDS   235.75
SWEDEN   161.79

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:16:05 PM »

UNITED STATES   9.01
UNITED KINGDOM   1.05
NETHERLANDS   0.43
SPAIN   0.21
GERMANY   0.11

I'm in a select club

Bildi · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:16:14 PM »

SWEDEN   149.15
NORWAY   39.3
DENMARK   19.51
UNITED STATES   17.18
CANADA   11.92
NEW ZEALAND   10.73
SWITZERLAND   1.28
SPAIN   0.73
BELGIUM   0.57
UNITED KINGDOM   0.55

Swedes

Rman · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:16:20 PM »

ARGENTINA   6643.78
SPAIN   4819.64
UNITED STATES   205.14
FRANCE   98.52
SWITZERLAND   46.64
AUSTRALIA   46.47
LUXEMBOURG   34.01
CANADA   21.55
BELGIUM   16.34
ITALY   12.93

Bildi · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:17:47 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on September 07, 2008, 10:15:28 PM

AUSTRALIA   12254.2
UNITED KINGDOM   12176.54
NEW ZEALAND   10161.73
UNITED STATES   9000.49
IRELAND   4559.88
CANADA   3093.57
NORWAY   347.8
DENMARK   302.94
NETHERLANDS   235.75
SWEDEN   161.79

Hello, Mr Smith.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:18:17 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on September 07, 2008, 10:15:28 PM

AUSTRALIA   12254.2
UNITED KINGDOM   12176.54
NEW ZEALAND   10161.73
UNITED STATES   9000.49
IRELAND   4559.88
CANADA   3093.57
NORWAY   347.8
DENMARK   302.94
NETHERLANDS   235.75
SWEDEN   161.79

I know your last name.

edit: beaten

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:18:57 PM »

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on September 07, 2008, 10:18:07 PM

My wife has a super rare last name:

UNITED STATES 10.4
UNITED KINGDOM 0.07
GERMANY 0.04

And that's all

she's in my club as well

Vizzys · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:19:51 PM »

UNITED KINGDOM   354.88
AUSTRALIA   339.01
NEW ZEALAND   224.24
CANADA   169.17
IRELAND   137.48
UNITED STATES   122.74
SWITZERLAND   5.75
SPAIN   4.19
DENMARK   3.25
NORWAY   3.11

Bildi · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:19:53 PM »

Quote from: Malek on September 07, 2008, 10:18:17 PM

edit: beaten

Yours was lots funnier though.

Greatness Gone · « **Reply #11 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:20:22 PM »

UNITED KINGDOM 2594.17
AUSTRALIA 2315.19
NEW ZEALAND 1728.49
UNITED STATES 1469.23
CANADA 612.25

Fucking Brits and ledgerians.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #12 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:20:35 PM »

IRELAND   19.54
UNITED KINGDOM   10.42
UNITED STATES   1.3
CANADA   0.92
FRANCE   0.3

My mom's maiden name wins

FRANCE   0.15
UNITED STATES   0.07

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:20:43 PM »

It's only cool when the rare name is mostly located in somewhere other than the US

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:21:03 PM »

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on September 07, 2008, 10:18:07 PM

My wife has a super rare last name:

UNITED STATES 10.4
UNITED KINGDOM 0.07
GERMANY 0.04

And that's all

That's odd. Was there a corruption in the spelling of her last name?

patrickula · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:22:17 PM »

Country   FPM
POLAND   114.03
GERMANY   6.94
SWEDEN   3.79
UNITED STATES   3.03
CANADA   2.29
AUSTRIA   1.98
UNITED KINGDOM   1.51
NORWAY   0.85
FRANCE   0.84
DENMARK   0.33

Name is from Poland, most are in Poland. Surprise!

My girl's last name must be some kind of corruption or something, it's supposed to be German buuut:
Country   FPM
UNITED STATES   3.47
GERMANY   0.39

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:24:39 PM »

UNITED STATES   403.47
NEW ZEALAND   232.83
AUSTRALIA   218.63
UNITED KINGDOM   211.87
CANADA   144.18
IRELAND   130.97
SWITZERLAND   3.83
DENMARK   2.44
ARGENTINA   2.13
SPAIN   1.89

demi · « **Reply #17 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:24:47 PM »

Country FPM
ITALY 51.36
ARGENTINA 14.58
SWITZERLAND 11.5
LUXEMBOURG 8.5
UNITED STATES 6.63
FRANCE 3.16
CANADA 2.75
BELGIUM 0.86
GERMANY 0.81
UNITED KINGDOM 0.2

What a surprise

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #18 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:26:47 PM »

Pretty rare surname, apparently.

UNITED STATES   18.05
CANADA   10.31
NETHERLANDS   0.32
FRANCE   0.05
UNITED KINGDOM   0.04

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:30:56 PM »

huckleberry · « **Reply #20 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:31:46 PM »

United States 321.63

Australia 171.12

Ireland 163.88

United Kingdom 129.92

New Zealand 122.31

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #21 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:32:27 PM »

Quote from: Sec. of Defense James Heller on September 07, 2008, 10:30:56 PM

(Image removed from quote.)

FREUD

Top Countries
Country   FPM
HUNGARY   14.15
CANADA   1.6
GERMANY   1.58
UNITED STATES   1.17
UNITED KINGDOM   0.92
AUSTRIA   0.79
DENMARK   0.33
FRANCE   0.3
ARGENTINA   0.28
NETHERLANDS   0.21

Bildi · « **Reply #22 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:36:16 PM »

Edit: the most popular forename for "fuck" is kinda funny too.

Bildi · « **Reply #23 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:41:27 PM »

You're killing me here. It's all I can do to stop my co-workers from hearing me.

TVC15 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:44:48 PM »

IRELAND   790.61
UNITED KINGDOM   318.68
AUSTRALIA   307.68
NEW ZEALAND   259.65
UNITED STATES   125.65

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #25 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:45:38 PM »

Not surprisingly when the "s" is eliminated from the end of my surname it becomes extremely popular.

bork · « **Reply #26 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:47:54 PM »

Top countries:

UNITED STATES   59.65
CANADA   39.2
AUSTRALIA   38.31
UNITED KINGDOM   32.24
NEW ZEALAND   8.58

Top regions:

MASSACHUSETTS , UNITED STATES   196.5
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA , UNITED STATES   193.42
MARYLAND , UNITED STATES   140.39
NEW JERSEY , UNITED STATES   137.53
FLORIDA , UNITED STATES   119.38

Top cities:

BISHOP AUCKLAND , NORTH , UNITED KINGDOM
BOGNOR REGIS , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
BATH , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
ALDERLEY EDGE & WILMSLOW , NORTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
BABYLON , NEW YORK , UNITED STATES

Interesting that the UK dominates in cities.

bork · « **Reply #27 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:50:12 PM »

My wife's name (it's Japanese)

JAPAN   1
UNITED STATES   0.65
ARGENTINA   0.4
GERMANY   0.1

Uh, I am beginning to doubt the accuracy of this:

Top cities:

PEORIA , ILLINOIS , UNITED STATES
DAYTON , OHIO , UNITED STATES
HAUPTSTUHL , RHEINLAND-PFALZ , GERMANY
IOWA CITY , IOWA , UNITED STATES
KINDSBACH , RHEINLAND-PFALZ , GERMANY

HUH?!

Top forenames:

ICHIRO
RICARDO MIGUEL
ENRIQUE ANDRES
MARIA ALEJANDRA
JUAN

I guess a number of Argentine people could have the name, but it seems kinda rare.

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #28 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:09:40 PM »

Rarer : We could not found an exact match for "**********". Please search again.

I've seen variations around but I thought it should pick up some people in Australia at least.

Quote from: lyte edge on September 07, 2008, 10:50:12 PM

I guess a number of Argentine people could have the name, but it seems kinda rare.

Doesn't Brazil have a large Japanese population?

Beezy · « **Reply #29 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:24:48 PM »

UNITED STATES 4053.27
AUSTRALIA 2660.15
NEW ZEALAND 1731.71
UNITED KINGDOM 1689.33
CANADA 1030.81

Crushed · « **Reply #30 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:28:36 PM »

IRELAND   2182.57
AUSTRALIA   1211.44
UNITED KINGDOM   1044.28
NEW ZEALAND   938.82
CANADA   803.88
UNITED STATES   751.94

Rman · « **Reply #31 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:32:07 PM »

Peru, which is in the vicinity, has enclaves of people of Japanese decent.

Hangatýr · « **Reply #32 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:37:36 PM »

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CurseoftheGods · « **Reply #33 on:** September 08, 2008, 12:10:35 AM »

"We could not found an exact match for "[removed]". Please search again."

muckhole · « **Reply #34 on:** September 08, 2008, 12:26:24 AM »

NEW ZEALAND 1078.3
AUSTRALIA 665.59
CANADA 616.84
UNITED KINGDOM 232.63
UNITED STATES 115.94

Hmm. Interesting. Not what I expected.

Tieno · « **Reply #35 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:20:51 AM »

BELGIUM   51.73
FRANCE   3.94
UNITED STATES   0.11
GERMANY   0.04

Beezy · « **Reply #36 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:33:53 AM »

Wtf? My grandmother's maiden name is german.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #37 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:35:55 AM »

Quote from: Beezy on September 08, 2008, 01:33:53 AM

Wtf? My grandmother's maiden name is german.

All this time your grandmother just had a really good tan.

BobbyRobby · « **Reply #38 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:45:20 AM »

ITALY   31.01
ARGENTINA   17.03
FRANCE   4.19
UNITED STATES   1.68
SWITZERLAND   1.28

pretty weird, lot's of people with my (Italian) last name probably migrated to argentina with nazis after WWII or something.

Darunia · « **Reply #39 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:51:20 AM »

BELGIUM   99.31
FRANCE   2.22
NETHERLANDS   0.86
UNITED STATES   0.37
SPAIN   0.1

The Sceneman · « **Reply #40 on:** September 08, 2008, 02:05:36 AM »

SWEDEN   1.26
UNITED KINGDOM   1.23
NEW ZEALAND   1.07
INDIA   0.27
UNITED STATES   0.24

who fucking wins rarest name

and my mothers surname which I use occasionally when I want to go double barrel

HUNGARY   820.68
CANADA   3.9
AUSTRIA   3.57
BELGIUM   1.72
GERMANY   1.45
SWITZERLAND   1.28
NEW ZEALAND   1.07
UNITED STATES   0.8
NETHERLANDS   0.43
UNITED KINGDOM   0.28

Bildi · « **Reply #41 on:** September 08, 2008, 02:31:06 AM »

Is your dad Swedish and your mum Hungarian? If so, mine too.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #42 on:** September 08, 2008, 02:49:08 AM »

my mums dad was Hungarian, my dad is just the usual New Zealand/British Isles combo

names in question are Szabados and Jimson (Jimson is the super rare one)

drozmight · « **Reply #43 on:** September 08, 2008, 02:53:42 AM »

My last name was anglicized by some family members a few generations back...

UNITED KINGDOM 806.79
AUSTRALIA 584.43
NEW ZEALAND 463.51
UNITED STATES 330.43
CANADA 323.2

The original...

INDIA 266.64
ARGENTINA 21.83
GERMANY 21.74
DENMARK 16.75
AUSTRIA 11.9

bork · « **Reply #44 on:** September 08, 2008, 02:55:34 AM »

Quote from: Fresh Prince on September 07, 2008, 11:09:40 PM

Rarer : We could not found an exact match for "**********". Please search again.
I've seen variations around but I thought it should pick up some people in Australia at least.

Quote from: lyte edge on September 07, 2008, 10:50:12 PM
I guess a number of Argentine people could have the name, but it seems kinda rare.
Doesn't Brazil have a large Japanese population?

Oh yeah, them too. But doesn't it seem strange there would be more Brazilians with that last name than Japanese?

Tundra · « **Reply #45 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:18:28 AM »

GERMANY   62.7
NORWAY   5.37
NEW ZEALAND   3.22
IRELAND   2.06
UNITED STATES   1.28
SWITZERLAND   1.28
POLAND   1.25
AUSTRIA   1.19
ARGENTINA   0.81
SPAIN   0.73

As expected, most of them in Germany ( i have a quite german family name), but i wonder about Norway being #2 in the list.

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #46 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:21:07 AM »

I guess if they came from one area, a whole extended family could be transferred to South America- leaving only a few males to spread the surname along in Japan.

I guess some of these Brazillian/Argentine Japanese came back to Japan though.

E-DuB · « **Reply #47 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:26:38 AM »

NEW ZEALAND   1418.42
CANADA   1074.82
AUSTRALIA   1073.59
UNITED KINGDOM   660.8
UNITED STATES   115.63
LUXEMBOURG   42.51
IRELAND   31.88
NETHERLANDS   13.16
NORWAY   10.46
SWITZERLAND   7.67

Luxembourg? I'm impressed

cloudwalking · « **Reply #48 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:32:05 AM »

ARGENTINA   224.01
SPAIN   141.96
FRANCE   6.71
SWITZERLAND   5.11
ITALY   3.89
UNITED STATES   1.89
SWEDEN   1.26
CANADA   1.15
GERMANY   0.26
UNITED KINGDOM   0.11

so many in argentina is a surprise to me... in the region where my name actually comes from it seems pretty uncommon, in fact

Bildi · « **Reply #49 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:33:07 AM »

Quote from: Scenester on September 08, 2008, 02:49:08 AM

my mums dad was Hungarian, my dad is just the usual New Zealand/British Isles combo

names in question are Szabados and Jimson (Jimson is the super rare one)

Never seen Jimson before alright. But Szabados sure looks Hungarian to my untrained eye - my mum's maiden name was Szonyi.

max_cool · « **Reply #50 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:56:37 AM »

SWITZERLAND 152.7

CANADA   5.04
UNITED STATES   1.55
ARGENTINA   0.89
GERMANY   0.86

FatalT · « **Reply #51 on:** September 08, 2008, 04:13:37 AM »

Hood

NEW ZEALAND   296.13
AUSTRALIA   248.92
UNITED KINGDOM   239.75
UNITED STATES   211.02
CANADA   187.5
IRELAND   13.37
SPAIN   2.51
ARGENTINA   1.93
SWITZERLAND   1.92
GERMANY   1.58

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #52 on:** September 08, 2008, 05:02:14 AM »

Quote from: ParticleReality on September 08, 2008, 04:06:51 AM

My last name comes from my Filipino grandfather(which if you go really far down the family tree was got in Italy). THIS THING IS BROKEN.

I'M NOT RELATED TO ANY STINKY ARGENTINEANS, DAMMIT!

Italians emigrated to Argentina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_settlement_in_Argentina so yes you are through some forefather.

blk.rebl · « **Reply #53 on:** September 08, 2008, 05:12:50 AM »

GERMANY   4.84
SWITZERLAND   1.28
UNITED STATES   0.38
IRELAND   0.34
ARGENTINA   0.08

Reb · « **Reply #54 on:** September 08, 2008, 06:11:23 AM »

NETHERLANDS 26.54
GERMANY 0.04

My name is sooooo dutch.

Eric P · « **Reply #55 on:** September 08, 2008, 07:53:29 AM »

my name is very english

Country   FPM
UNITED KINGDOM   143.85
NEW ZEALAND   108.37
AUSTRALIA   100.45
UNITED STATES   91.87
CANADA   52.72

SUCK IT DOWN, TERRITORIES

Top Regions
Area Name   FPM
MARLBOROUGH REGION , NEW ZEALAND   379.36
NELSON REGION , NEW ZEALAND   379.36
TASMAN REGION , NEW ZEALAND   379.36
WEST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM   314.04
SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM   228.93
TENNESSEE , UNITED STATES   204.47
VIRGINIA , UNITED STATES   197.89
TARANAKI REGION , NEW ZEALAND   192.56
IOWA , UNITED STATES   191.05
SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM   184.7

Top Cities
City
ASCOT , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND , NORTH , UNITED KINGDOM
AMSTERDAM , NEW YORK , UNITED STATES
BACUP , NORTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
ABERDOUR & BURNTISLAND , SCOTLAND , UNITED KINGDOM

lordmaji · « **Reply #56 on:** September 08, 2008, 09:48:28 AM »

Mine is super low compared to everyone.

UNITED STATES 0.14

No other countries are listed.

I'm all alone

Brehvolution · « **Reply #57 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:03:47 AM »

UNITED KINGDOM   103.79
IRELAND   98.74
CANADA   94.44
AUSTRALIA   70.03
NEW ZEALAND   24.68
UNITED STATES   22.06
DENMARK   3.58
NORWAY   1.13
SWITZERLAND   0.64
BELGIUM   0.57

cool breeze · « **Reply #58 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:18:54 AM »

Most people that have my last name are from France. My last name is Persian. Both Persian and French people are hairy...connection?!

tiesto · « **Reply #59 on:** September 08, 2008, 11:25:52 AM »

Well, my last name was changed on the boat at Ellis Island.

Top Countries:
UNITED STATES   0.99

Original form of last name:

Top Countries:
POLAND   27.57
CANADA   1.6
FRANCE   0.89
UNITED STATES   0.86
SPAIN   0.1

Mother's maiden name (it's an Italian last name too):

ARGENTINA   21.7
UNITED STATES   20.38
SWITZERLAND   8.95
CANADA   8.02
ITALY   5.09

News:

Author Topic: surname search: How many people share your last name around the world? (Read 7245 times)