http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx

 

 

 

Basically you fill in your last name, and it shows you how common (per million people) your name is in the world (using data from North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and India mostly). It's a fun way to get a few hints of the ethnicity of the paternal side of your family at least :)

 

 

 

Now my last name is an uncommon spelling of a pretty common last name (comparable to names ending in -son for English or Scandinavian countries). Not surprisingly The Netherlands is the country where my name is most common (~25 per million), but for some reason the name is more popular in Ireland (#2) than in neighbouring countries Belgium and Germany (#3 and #10, respectively). The most common spelling of my last name is almost thirty times more common than my own spelling, and besides The Netherlands is most common in New Zealand, Canada and Australia, followed by Belgium. This makes a lot of sense considering that a lot of Dutch people migrated to these three countries after World War 2. Still funny to see the impact this had on the census.

AUSTRALIA 400.88

 

UNITED KINGDOM 387.01

 

NEW ZEALAND 247.85

 

UNITED STATES 104.14

 

IRELAND 55.88

 

CANADA 32.55

 

LUXEMBOURG 8.5

 

SWEDEN 5.06

 

SPAIN 4.3

 

NORWAY 3.96

 

 

 

Hmm, Australia, UK and NZ....Not very suprising really :P

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

Thought it'd be a good idea to do my mums sides surname too?

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA 546.24

 

IRELAND 519.41

 

UNITED KINGDOM 475.47

 

NEW ZEALAND 413.08

 

UNITED STATES 274.12

 

CANADA 257.19

 

SPAIN 4.82

 

BELGIUM 4.59

 

SWITZERLAND 3.83

 

DENMARK 3.74

 

 

 

Again Uk/Irish/Australia/NZ

 

(Notice the drop between NZ and US lol.)

UNITED KINGDOM 142.71

 

AUSTRALIA 95.53

 

NEW ZEALAND 79.4

 

IRELAND 27.08

 

CANADA 12.84

 

UNITED STATES 8.33

 

FRANCE 1.23

 

SPAIN 1.15

 

NORWAY 1.13

 

DENMARK 0.98

 

 

 

My name is also the 5th in the list of most common forenames. My first name is also the only one in the list any of my relatives i know have, although there is also Michelle (female) in there and i have a cousin called Micheal (male)

 

 

 

Very interesting website. here's another website that doesn't tell you much but i got the link from that site:

 

http://www.onomap.org

 

 

 

Thats mine. quite interesting, because my name isn't German at all.

 

But i do know my ancestors back in the 1800's were Estonian.

IRELAND 4194.06

 

 

 

I share my last name with a President assassinated in the 60's. I'm a quarter Irish. :)

IRELAND 4194.06

 

 

 

I share my last name with a President assassinated in the 60's. I'm a quarter Irish. :)

 

 

 

I had a school teacher with your surname over here in Australia i think, i didn't get taught by him (well unless he filled in maybe) but i seem to remember him being at my school.

 

 

 

EDIT: I share my last name with a TV actor from here in Australia who recently committed suicide that played a person in a popular medical drama.

 

My first name in real life also happens to be the first name of the person he played in the medical drama (except it was abbreviated in the tv show)

 

 

 

Now lets see what Aussie cant guess my name

UNITED KINGDOM 167.19

 

CANADA 103.84

 

AUSTRALIA 82.58

 

NEW ZEALAND 36.48

 

UNITED STATES 26.97

 

IRELAND 20.57

 

FRANCE 1.68

 

SWITZERLAND 1.28

 

AUSTRIA 1.19

 

BELGIUM 0.86

They don't have any data for Finland. I typed in the most common Finnish surnames and nothing came up.

 

 

 

And I know pryo's last name! :o (Like it wasn't obvious from his post.)

AUSTRALIA 893.92

 

NEW ZEALAND 831.52

 

UNITED KINGDOM 629.46

 

UNITED STATES 277

 

CANADA 218.45

 

IRELAND 100.8

 

SPAIN 5.97

 

NORWAY 5.66

 

NETHERLANDS 5.56

 

FRANCE 3.3

IRELAND 788.21

 

AUSTRALIA 100.83

 

UNITED KINGDOM 74.73

 

UNITED STATES 60.21

 

NEW ZEALAND 23.6

 

 

 

I already knew it was an Irish surname, though I didn't expect it to be so high in Australia.

 

 

 

As for my mum's maiden name:

 

[hide=]FRANCE 26.87

 

NEW ZEALAND 18.24

 

UNITED KINGDOM 6.77

 

ARGENTINA 5.76

 

SWITZERLAND 5.75[/hide]

 

or for the non-Anglicized version:

 

[hide=]ARGENTINA 1253

 

UNITED STATES 186.24

 

SPAIN 79.2

 

AUSTRALIA 20.06

 

CANADA 11.69[/hide]

 

My grandpa always said we were descended from Portuguese pirates, as we know for a fact that my great great grandfather (I think it was him) was a pirate. Portugal isn't included in the site, but Spain is, so there might be some small shred of truth to that. :)

AUSTRALIA 111.19

 

NEW ZEALAND 85.83

 

UNITED KINGDOM 42.62

 

UNITED STATES 23.78

 

CANADA 8.02

 

INDIA 3.5

 

SWEDEN 1.26

 

IRELAND 1.03

 

SPAIN 0.94

 

DENMARK 0.65

NEW ZEALAND 43.99

 

AUSTRALIA 34.17

 

UNITED KINGDOM 8.1

 

CANADA 2.98

 

SWITZERLAND 1.28

 

SWEDEN 1.26

 

UNITED STATES 0.18

 

SPAIN 0.1

 

FRANCE 0.05

 

 

 

 

 

yeah, my name is pretty uncommon, and before WWII there would have been a highish number of them in Germany, but they must of known there was going to be a war, because they seem to have moved from Germany just before then. Infact I am positive my grandma (dad's side) is German (no she doesn't speak German.)

Netherlands - 7.49

 

 

 

Guess there's only 120 people in the whole world who have the same surname as I do. :thumbup:

GERMANY 43.34

 

SWEDEN 41.71

 

CANADA 19.71

 

DENMARK 11.71

 

AUSTRIA 11.11

 

UNITED STATES 8.68

 

NORWAY 5.66

 

NETHERLANDS 4.39

 

POLAND 4.24

 

NEW ZEALAND 1.07

POLAND 0.62

 

UNITED STATES 0.07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes, my last name is special =D

 

 

 

and yes i spelled it right.

Only SIX other people share my surname.. odd

My name is a misspelling of a popular Irish surname:

 

 

 

IRELAND	       103.54

UNITED KINGDOM	14.96

NEW ZEALAND	   2.15

UNITED STATES	 1.38

CANADA	        1.38

 

My forename is eight most popular for my surname too. I always thought I'd be the only one with my name.

UNITED KINGDOM 259.94

 

AUSTRALIA 212.15

 

NEW ZEALAND 90.13

 

UNITED STATES 26.1

 

CANADA 21.51

 

 

 

My surname is fairly uncommon, my mother's maiden name is a lot more common though:

 

AUSTRALIA 12254.2

 

UNITED KINGDOM 12176.54

 

NEW ZEALAND 10161.73

 

UNITED STATES 9000.49

 

IRELAND 4559.88

GERMANY 4.84

 

UNITED STATES 2.37

 

SWITZERLAND 0.64

 

CANADA 0.23

 

POLAND 0.12

 

FRANCE 0.1

 

 

 

I'm special. :?

Really interesting site. I put in my grandmothers maiden name, which is quite an uncommon and old fashioned surname, and all 5 of the top cities list where adjacent to where she was brought up. I guess it shows how that name never really spread from its area of origin.

UNITED STATES 0.45

 

 

 

I guess that's it...? :lol:

 

My forename is the 3rd most common forename for my surname. It's not even a common first name either. Also of note the top regions for my surname are Alaska (idk), Pennsylvania (where I live), Missouri (where part of my dad's family lives), Maryland (where my aunt/uncle/cousins live) , and Illinois (where my other aunt/uncle/cousins live).

Cool little thing. Here's both my father's and my mother's surname.

 

 

 

[hide=Father's][/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Mother's][/hide]

INDIA 2057.75

 

CANADA 201.49

 

AUSTRALIA 113

 

UNITED KINGDOM 27.6

 

NEW ZEALAND 24.68

 

 

 

Dang, my last name's pretty common in India. Well I'm of Indian ethnicity anyway, so I guess I'm like the Smith last name of the Middle East.

Not many of us.

 

 

 

UNITED STATES 7.24

 

NEW ZEALAND 3.22

 

UNITED KINGDOM 1.84

 

INDIA 1.61

 

BELGIUM 0.86

 

GERMANY 0.42

 

AUSTRIA 0.4

 

NETHERLANDS 0.21

 

FRANCE 0.1

 

ITALY 0.06

My last name:

 

UNITED STATES 237.23

 

UNITED KINGDOM 227.62

 

NEW ZEALAND 221.02

 

AUSTRALIA 210.21

 

IRELAND 118.28

 

not too common last name, eh? My dad's name is on the "most common forenames list" though.

 

 

 

Mother's Maiden name:

 

DENMARK 42499.04

 

NORWAY 14100.29

 

SWEDEN 889.85

 

NEW ZEALAND 857.27

 

AUSTRALIA 690.31

 

 

 

 

 

wow......extremely common in norway and denmark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: My friend wins the rarest last name award.

 

ARGENTINA 0.2

 

UNITED STATES 0.06