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www.britishsurnames.co.uk

Sorry don't know how to do link with my phone.

According to this there are 412 people with my surname in the UK.

How about you?

1998 with my surname. 333 with my maiden name. I will take my married name over my maiden name any day.

Ooh, thanks mamapants I like this.

There are 627 with my surname in the UK. 990 in the US.

There 125574 with my maiden name in the UK.

Ooh you're quite rare. There are 8926 of my clan!

3570 with my married name

0 with my maiden name

3384 here but only 282 in Australia. May need to go there to feel special!

Squillions - I'm common as muck. My surname is British top three, and my first name is top twenty, so the combination is not exactly unusual!

Useful when people try to Google me; they find dozens of other people first...

It can't tell me my number as there are so few, but it must be at least 5. There were 8 in 1881.

79658 with my maiden name and 6848 with my married name.

I'm a rarity as no one else has my name!

Thought I was fairly rare till Pasha beat me in first reply :-)

26415 in the UK. 199th most common. Dead common me, but actually vair posh. I hate my surname with a passion.

None apparently which is odd since I know 5.

My surname, 1770 in uk, twice as many in the USA !!

My DP and DC surname, no records apparently a genuine rarity!!

Not listed! A rarity apparently...

697 which is 3 more than in 1881

None!

I'm not in Britain though and last we knew there was one other family in Ireland with the name.

It's a dutch name and fairly uncommon even over there.

16423 with my surname... Do I get a sticker for being common!

only 346 of my maden name

17216 of my married name there more common

270k with my surname.

52 with my maiden name (I'm directly related to them all)

Really wish I hadn't changed!

There are NONE with mine!

3579 with my married name, 404 with my shockingly ridiculous maiden name.

24291 for my maiden name, married name means I am a genuine rarity

1080 with my surname and 672 in 1881 census.

354 with my name, 2176 with my maiden name. Would explain why people find it so hard to spell.

My surname is ranked one below my maiden name. Both top ten. My forename is also very common for my age group.

Needless to say I am rather difficult to find using a web search.

1051 with my surname

15798 with my maiden name.

Clearly I've become less common since getting married. Trust me - in more ways than one.

None listed in the Uk!

Dunno how thought because I have traced my family back to 1880's and whilst not common by any stretch, it's been around for yonks!

590 with my surname

14447 with my surname. Mine is the same as a certain toy store. If spelt the other way it would no doubt be millions

384 of my married surname!

They said they have no knowledge of my maiden name as none have been recorded in the UK! I don't know if that just means currently, or in the past too. It's a Swedish name and rare even then as its a a Sami (Laplander) name (Parmryd).

16160 married

3578 maiden

N/A for my current surname, 3098 for my maiden name (would be even more if it included Ireland)

18086! I've never met anyone else with my surname, always assumed it was very unusual but it's as common as muck!

over 107,000 with my married name - common as muck!

DH name is currently 1226 people
My name is N/A currently and had the grand number of 1 in 1881.

4410 with maiden name, 30 with married name, we are related to at least 20 of them!

0 with my surname, although I know 2 other than me. First name's common as muck though.

Well over 80 thousand.

None for DH's.

It always amazes me that, so far as I know, I am the only person in my area of study with my name (first and second are both common), as I know people with much less common names who've had to use a middle initial in order to differentiate themselves from older colleagues in the same field.

109 of mine, none of do and the kids'

None it knows of, which doesn't surprise me because I'm not British and it's very rare even back home. Every person I've ever met at home with my surname has, upon investigation of cousins/second cousins/great grandparents turned out to be related to me.

Oh, and despite my name being common as muck, I still get asked to spell it on a regular basis.

29594 with my married name. 40485 with my maiden name.

Common as muck!

None for current name (although 4 of us live in this house!), 270 for my maiden name, 480 for DH's pre-marriage name so hyphenating them would put us as rare!

Therefore I am not common, no matter what you think of my table manners

756 people in the UK have my surname.

If I use my current surname (was married name but now divorced) it is 5317

If I use my maiden name it is 440

If I use the name on my birth certificate it is 84103 (common Welsh surname)

So I can be relatively rare or as ubiquitous as air

19511

Maiden name is top 200, married name is not even on the list, I know it's uncommon, but there are at least 15 of us...

None with mine. Nine in 1881, most of whom were my Swedish relatives.

138466

10th most common in UK and 2nd in the US

Common as muck!

Over 11,000 with my real name, none with my Mumsnet name - think I might adopt it as my real name and be a bit more interesting and unique

N/A for my name now but 6 in 1881!

202990 with my married name and apparently none with my maiden name but my whole family are in the UK so there's at least a few

Nearly 44 000 with my married name (top 100), no data at all for my maiden name - nearly extinct . I know there are a few of us, we're all related and most of us are female, which accounts for why the numbers are too low to register as we marry ourselves out of the name.

252 out of 60m
We could all fit on the London eye at the same time.

1117 with my surname.

254 in the UK.

399 in the US, which makes my cousin 1 in a million apparently!

658 in UK. They have the origin completely wrong though! We are Dutch, not Punjabi!

There are 10425 in the UK with my married name, but it says NONE with my maiden name. Bit odd that, since my brother, Dad, and niece all have that name still so there's at least 3 of them. Apparently there were 46 with it in 1881.

Not sure how accurate this is now....

I do prefer the maiden name but it's a bugger to spell, and I got fed up with correcting people. My current name might be common but people can at least spell it!

145th 32000 with my surname

No-one with my maiden surname

751 with my name, but only 161 in the USA so I would be very unusual there!

3643

294 with my name as it will be when I'm married.

How come then I'm the one with the small family and DP has a small army he wants to invite to the wedding?

Hm. Nobody has my maiden name, which is clearly impossible, as I know around 100 people do....

1658 with maiden name

They have no data for my married name it says 'Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK'

Good to know!

DP and I have consecutive names - popular but not overly-so. How weird!

I got N/A ( due to being soo low number) know only parents and me with my surname but in 1881 there were 24

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

3201 with my maiden name and I'm N/A for my married name. I'm not applicable, but I know I'm here, unless we do truely live in 'matrix' ala Keanu Reeves!

None .

Now wondering if I actually exist.

my old married name is not listed!

maiden name has 4857 of us in UK

current married name 5315 of us...

2,601 so not too common but 0 for OHs name which is odd because there's LOADS of them!!

LRD one of the reasons* why I took DH's name was because I was sick of being asked which of the two very common spellings of my very common surname I used.

* This reason was right at the bottom of the pros list.

Ahhh, maybe we have the same name, MrsH. I don't really have that option as it's relatively easy to spell my name whereas DH's is a total bugger.

37066 - maiden
4874 - married

So I've got rarer!

Me me me....and only me! Hurrah I knew I was unique!
(am inordinately proud of my name!)

None with mine either. Do I exist?

In not listed, another rarity.

46005 with my maiden name apparently none with my married name, which is odd as I know at least 7!!

Im a rarity- they can't find any record of my name at all. I do have a strange name, but there are at least 100 people in my family with my name so you'd think I would be listed.
Makes me dubious about how accurate it is.

My maiden name is not listed (didn't think it would be)
11,279 of my married name

6984 in the UK with my married name - over 43,000 in the USA which is where DH is from, though. 6498 with my maiden name.

Married name is 778. Maiden name is 514897. Mum's maiden name is 122.

So, mum was vair posh, married a commoner and I'm trying to claw my way up again

I went from common to rare, over 27000 with my maiden name and only 62 with my married name.

Friend just been round. According to that site, he doesn't exist. Clearly, he has defied the laws of physics and beamed in from afar.

152 in UK with mine and 690 in USA

A mere 270138. Third most common in the UK.

761 with my married name 1870 with my maiden name.

I've got N/A for both married and maiden name.

I know loads of people with my maiden name. Why aren't they showing up?

Current surname ranked 29 - pretty common. Maiden name 205. - fairly common. Common as muck me!

398 married, 1116 maiden name.

DH is jubilant - he always said his surname was rarer than mine

Apparently none with my maiden name, although I definitely know of several other people in my family with the same name.

I am one of close to 40,000.

Was one of 132 with my maiden name. I much prefer being common because everyone can spell it first time.

Maiden name: unlisted. There are at least 4 though (immediate family). And there are at least 100 on the 1911 census so I suspect we haven't all died out.

Married name: 125574, the 13th most common in the UK.

None with my name either

Iis a double barrtelled legal made up one

10088 maiden, 3957 married.

18,662 in UK for my surname. If I'd taken DH's surname when we married...it doesn't exist in UK! Although there were 331 of him in 1881 census! Glad I kept mine though

11175 with mine. DP and the DC's name is rare though, its says N/A (less than 0.001). Their name is not common the way it is spelled, but if it is spelled the more traditional way its 3346.

Mine isn't on there!

When I type it in the search it says: "If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the xxxxxxxx family becoming extinct!"

Common as muck but it is a nicer surname than my relatively rare maiden name.

I've gone from under 1,100 to over 39,500 by getting married. DH's family is common.

21839 with my surname, which is surprising given that I've never met anyone with the same surname! Interestingly it's gone up 335 places since 1881 - I'm guessing due to Irish immigration?
DH's is 23000 so both pretty boring bog standard really.

Nobody else with my surname. [smug] My children have both my surname and my husband's surname, so it's just me with my surname.

none according to that. i know of two others.

None with mine :-)

None. I'm well rare me. At the last count there are about 7 or 8 of us in England.

Pretty common. Of English stock apparently, which is quite funny as my scottish FIL is a rampant Scottish Nationalist.

575 with my surname. Though my maiden name is much more common .

SPs Fanjo that was my maiden name! No one could ever pronounce it... was glad to change. Are you from NI.?

About 1000 in England. Only 100 in Australia... They are all my family .

There are three towns in England with my surname, and a Great War memorial in one lists about 30 of my relatives. So sad.

None with my maiden name but I know I shared it with 5 other people, my Mum, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin and his wife.

Married name 293.

just checked my name and then a couple of unusual ones.
That site has errors.
it lists one of my client's names as not existing in the UK and yet he, his two ex wives, his three kids and his brother all have that name ....

1925 people with my maiden name.

1558 with my married name, That's quite rare! No wonder nobody can spell it.

Win No I'm English! My dad is Irish though from Southern Ireland. People say it wrong and it annoys me.

Gggrrrrr no.1 married, maiden name slightly better 101!

2464 here but only 462 in America. 182,727 with my maiden name though (783,051 in the US), common as muck!

My maiden name:
If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the ..... family becoming extinct!

However - obviously I know I am not the only one with my maiden name! They have other variants, but not our spelling! The nearest variant data is:

United Kingdom (current)144738890.00331
United Kingdom (1881 census)183123860.00661
Change since 1881-384-1503-0.003-30

My married name:
United Kingdom (current)87871350.1911913
United Kingdom (1881 census)65268370.2182179
Change since 1881+22603+2-0.027-266

14507 with my sirname

14 with my surname

4967 with dh's surname. Glad I didn't change it after marriage

In uk there's 65110 with my surname. In Australia there's 14145 and in the us there's 177213. So common as muck

211. Quite rare then!

Will go & do my maiden name...

441 for my maiden name.

3190 for my married name & only 37 for my maiden name.

2689 here and 1442 in 1881. I have only met one with my surname outside my family I think.

Ooh 396 for my maiden name. Always thought it was common, but now I find I am not quite so common!

My surname is becoming more common, increase from 5102 to 5275 in the last 130 years.

It is however an everyday common word so I probably beat you all for actual common-ness

My surname is the 2nd most popular in the UK. My first name is often the most popular baby name...every year, including when I was born so I'm very common! It's good because its hard to Google my name and find me

97 of us in the UK. In 1881 there were only 6!

408 with my married name.

Not enough data on my maiden name. When I checked the UK census last year, there were about 28 of them; AFAIK I am related to all of them.

125574 currently with married name, thought it would be much more

223 with maiden name

656 with maiden name after changing to mums new surname

Very funny though that my DM managed to marry two blokes with weird (and they are weird, not foreign just weird) surnames, but both called same boring ordinary first name, Michael!

Just used the search and got

"Sorry, we don't currently have any data for G*******

If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the G******* family becoming extinct!"

I know I'm not alone...... how very strange.

There's three of us, and we're all on the same sofa

138466 for mine, 1857160 in America. No surprises really, but I love my name, very simple but classic.

However, my soon to be husbands name was not found at all, so very rare indeed.

I'm quite rare (700-odd)

But did a search in my Nans maiden name and it says there are none now and were none in 1881!

Which is bollocks as she was one of 9 and had about a thousand nieces and nephews

So I take the website with a pinch of salt

1446 - I've never met anyone outside of my family with the same name though.

None with my name - I'm a rarity apparently - along with all the other rarities in this thread!

No entires for mine! I actually know that my little family are the only ones in the UK and there's one other family in the USA.

1684 of my surname. Non of DD and OHs (and his family) apparently!

270138 of people with my surname in UK.

1534042 in US. Guess I'm pretty damn common!

7828 with my surname.
227 with my Name.
2730 with my soon name to be.

152 in the UK, 479 in the US (which seems too low for me, from what I know), and 34 in Australia. (Oh but on further inspection there are 584 in the Us with a very very easy spelling mistake.)

DH's is rank 35 in UK and US, and 20 in Australia - very common.

There are 9 people with my surname (that website says none but I know better!).

All of them immediate family. We've had the same surname since the 1600s, but only one boy every generation so the lineage is very small.

1405 in the UK and, not unexpectedly, more than 9000 in the US. Much more common name there!

I don't thinnk that website is accurate at all.

1595with my surname and 195 with my maiden name but thats greek and not normal greek spelling.

Okay ladies, there is ONE person with the surname Poo in the UK

Is anybody going to own up to that one?

92K in UK with my surname but never met anyone with the same surname apart from rellies.

21402 with my surname

So glad I changed back after my divorce, otherwise we'd be 1 down :D

1090 with my maiden name (that I still use). 10844 with my married name.

514897-I'm top of the list! LOL!!!!

My name is common. However my mum remarried a man with an unusual but not foreign name. I put her namei n and got this message:


Sorry, we don't currently have any data for XXXXX.

If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the XXXXX family becoming extinct!

I wouldn't say common-popular is better

1834 with my maiden name, 3171st ranking.

Nearly 100, 000 with my 32nd ranked married name.

I must have spelt my name out several times a day for 30 years. I love my boring, English, occupational surname.

It doesn't have my friends name! Thats at least 20 people I'd guess they haven't counted.

I've traced my maiden name back to 1775 so far; I can't see how the site can say my name is unique!

My surname isn't on there, there are definitely 7 of us now.

6326 others but only one Flaty: is that a bit common?

1439 with my maiden name and 899 with married.

Although the name that every hears when I say my name down the phone has 44155, that explains it a bit.

Nome for my surname! I'm a genuine rarity apparently! The site suggests I should breed to avoid my name dying out!

None

43000 in the UK but only 7000 in Australia for married name. Over 100,000 for maiden name!

Not listed. Hmmm... There are at least 8 of us.

My married surname says 2- but I know there are at least 3 other adults with the name There are 3625 in the US though(it's a French Canadian name originally, and one of the commonest names there)

There are 117215 of my maiden name, ranked 17th in the uk.

There are no records for my name. As far as I know there are 12 of us.

575 people with my maiden name in the UK.

58 people with my married name in the UK.

Must get butler...

No one apparently!

2840 with mine and dd1's surname.

1560 with dp and dd2's surname.

There was me thinking his name was more common than mine, it must just be a regional thing.

1962 people in uk currently. Pretty rare name I never hear anyone else with it.

If I get married that name would be 514897!

10,005 with mine and rank 597.

I had no idea mine was so common!

4106 with my married name, 3993 with my maiden name.
I knew DH was common than me!

My name is also too rare but supposedly there were 21 people with my name in 1881.

I get N/A for my maiden name? It is unusual but there's definitely 10 of us and I've heard of maximum one or two others.

There are 176 in the US and only 9 in Australia.

I also get N/A for my married name but there were 20 in the 1881 census.

Am I the most unusual?

My married name is the 7th most popular! 138466!

My maiden name there is only 268 people in the country with that name.

Only 736 of my maiden name.

3401 of my name now, knew it would be more popular as it's a Scottish clan name.

My maiden surname isn't on the list. There are at least 7 people I know who still use it.

Wow Mums maiden name is 43208!

Oops, misread. We are ranked 10th, on the front page 7th. I guess that means most popular on that website?

Ha it's true the forriners are taking over - wanted to channel East meets West but may risk my first deletion if I wrote exactly .

My (English) maiden name is very rare, my married (Asian dh) name was unknown in the 1881 census now in the top with squillions of the buggers .

Wow , no data at all on mine ...

Both my maiden name and married names are forrin, presumably why there is no data....

I like this!

Only 271 one of us with my maiden name (We are declining, there were 432 of us in the 1881 census!)

Apparently there are none of us with my married name that should reduce the Christmas card list anyway....

My Maiden name is a N/A because there are so few of us and me and my sister are off the list now. I expect I am related to the others.

My married name = there are 143 of us and I have four living children plus me and my OH so that accounts for 6 of them! He has four brothers and but I think only 2 of his seven sisters use the name. Not sure how many of the 30 + nieces and nephews have the name. I would think that that one family make up at least 30 of that 143 though

v.interesting.

So the list says that there are no people with my maiden name. I know that isn't true because I have a brother and four uncles and one male cousin. My brother has three children and my cousin has three

With spouses that makes at least 16

It is also a Jewish name albeit not a common one. So why does it say N/A?

None!

I am a genuine rarity too - and there are a fair few of us.

0 with my madien name but 17984 with my current name.
One extreme to the other!

314 with my married name!!

15442 with my surname

500 with dp's

66778 with my married name, maiden name, currently none!

249 with my surname. Wish they told you the origin of yur name.

None in the UK, 2023 in the US and 29 in Oz.

Stairs it looks like there's a tab with origin information on there

You are quite right- had totally missed that! Thank you Bertie

908 in England mostly in Yorkshire I reckon and only 143 in America..... most of whom seemed to of written to my DB

OH name has 460....I reckon we know half of them

Maiden name 240 in the UK.

There is no data available for my married name.

99 with my married name plus 2 in Australia - that'll be DH's uncle and auntie then.
156 with my maiden name. I'm surprised, I thought that was rarer.

89! How unique!

Very, very common!

16,492 married name

58,923 with maiden name!!!!

Apparently I'm the only one. But there are seven others I know of so methinks their database is flawed

92 with my maiden name
23000 with my married name

Same here redwelly, DH has the same name plus his dad, etc so I can't be the only one! Unless they've inflicted this surname on me as a joke and their real surname is actually Smith or Johnson or the like.

74722 with my maiden name though!

22600 people have my old surname but I am the only person with my current surname.

Maiden name - it's not on there, but we believe that we may be the last of our branch of the family so not surprised. (each generation only having 1 child, each a boy, my generation broke this cycle but no next generation as of yet)
Married name - 2798, so much more common.

born really common (96061, Hill)

still quite common now I'm married (4520)

Just searched my surname and got this response

'Search for 'Yoghurty's surname'

Sorry, we don't currently have any data for 'Yoghurty's surname'.

If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the 'Yoghurty' family becoming extinct!

I know this can't be accurate as where I'm from in the West country there are more than just me!

Yoghurty I got that message for my maiden name AND my married name!

<super-rare>

44191 with my maiden name and 0 with my married name

6679 with my maiden name and 1867 with my married name. Thought it'd be the other way round, have met a couple of people with my married surname but can't remember meeting anyone outside the family with my maiden name!

0 for my pre-marriage name (an unusual spelling of an unusual and quite regional name). 30,000-something for my married name.

Which kind of explains why I changed it - I got so sick of spelling it out all the time!

104 per million with my surname

Over 100,000 with my surname. I'm not surprised though. Every time I watch anything on telly I can guarantee at the end credits there will be at least one actor/production crew person with our surname. I love it though. I grew up with a very unusual surname, so it's nice to have one that people don't say 'eh?' to when I say it!!

824 with my maiden name - and apparently we are dying out. Eek.

My maiden name has only 200 in the UK

'Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the **** family becoming extinct!'

104000 with my married name!!! No one with my maiden name. Have clearly married into common stock!

96061 with my maiden name
10124 with my married name

Both fairly common

More than 60,000 of mine.

I'm as common as muck.

20 people with my last name, none In the older census.

40,000 ish with my maiden name and 4000 ish with my married name
Guess were not known as "The Great Clan Ross" for nothing

There's 16998 of us.

That doesn't shock me I knew we were middle of the road when it came to how popular we are.

30540 apparently. And yet a different spelling - which people ALWAYs try to use when working my name - has about 450.

64910 with my maiden name

1028 with my married name

Err none of my married name but I know theres Atleast 20 in the extended family and its not that unusual. My maiden name very common though

My mothers maiden name was very unusual so not surprised its not listed.

1332

They can't find any details on DPs surname. It says you should breed so your surname doesn't become extinct.

11674 with my married surname
30210 with my maiden name

5194 of my married name but my maiden name (which is unusual) isn't there even though there are at least 10 of them!

80,000 for maiden name, 35,000 for married name.

10,093 for married name - given I've never come across another one outside immediate family in RL, they must all be hidden away somewhere else!

And weirdly, only 4,445 of my maiden name, and I'm always meeting/seeing people with that name (although there are 40,724 of them in the US so they must've all emigrated at some point!)

Only 276 with my surname. Less in the US. Less in Australia. I am pretty sure that I am the only one in the world with my first name - surname combination.

oooh only 145 in uk. And I've got a rareish blood group. V V special me

Vair common at 63,000

401 in UK. 4 in 1881. I guess the family have been busy the last 130 years

749 with my surname so quite rare

72013 with my maiden name
And over 400,000 with my last married name

11195 of my maiden name, none of my married name - but we never meet others with our surname, unless they are relatives! I think that me, DH, DS, and DD are the only 4 of our surname in the UK.

I was searching pubmed recently for something and happened to put my married name in, to see if one of my papers had had my name corrected on it (as co-authors WILL NOT spell it correctly) - anyway, I found a couple of papers on plant biology by another person with my surname, and told DH that maybe there are others in the world, not just his cousins! Anyway, it turned out to just be one of his cousins who I haven't met yet

1333 with my maiden no and no data. For my married name!! This is what it says

If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the (insert my name) family becoming extinct!

If you know something of the origin of this name, why not start a thread about it on the forum - if we get enough information, we may be able to add it to the main site eventually.

11537!!!! I didn't think my surname was that common at all

Mine isn't even on there!

152. I didn't realise how rare it is.

180 with our name. That explains all the variations I get called which are wrong!

68,000 with married name. Ranked 57. Common as muck!

204 with my maiden name. I am surprised it's that many. I have never met anyone with my maiden name that isn't me, my brother, uncle, cousin or dad!

11 in the UK which astounds me (I was predicting 1 or 2).
Less than 0.001% in UK or my native country.

Apparently, I am a genuine rarity!

My surname is Robinson and apparently it's not in the top 100.

There are more people inBritain called Pinegar than Robinson? Really?

347 with my maiden name.
0 with my married name (is forrin and actually is a nickname taken on as a surname when someone migrated).

247515 with my surname.
105032 with my OH's.

At least both our Christian names are very unusual.

my married name " Search for 'X'

Sorry, we don't currently have any data for x.

If this is your name: Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the X family becoming extinct!

If you know something of the origin of this name, why not start a thread about it on the forum - if we get enough information, we may be able to add it to the main site eventually. "

I am not surprised. It's a forrin name.

My maiden name - - 48582
So fairly common then.

Married name: 39,126
Maiden name: apparently none, which is bollocks as there are at least 5, who are my cousins, aunt and uncle.

Married name 1,300
Maiden name 12,874

1338 and only 14 in 1881 - Irish immigrants !
None of my maiden name - end of the line

Only 98, my married name is very unusual in the u.k and is normally found in Grenada and Barbados.

759 does mean I'm rare?

*that

Apparently there are 0 people with my surname in the UK. But what about me, eh? There were 3 of us in 1881!

0 in the database which I was expecting as only others are my siblings or cousins a few times removed.
In South Africa its quite common though.

Maiden name 12252

Married surname, none.

Which is odd because I know us and PIL at least share the same surname, it is quite rare in it's spelling though, but not that rare.

889 people with the same surname as me - 5791 most common? according to that list

3 in 1881 but apparently none now. There' definitely us 2....

9767 in the UK.
76707 in the US.
2045 in Australia.

I am another genuine rarity... There are a surprisingly large number of us! I have already bred with two DD's so not much use am I

Quite a few with my married name (over 30 000) but it says no record of my maiden surname. I know my maiden surname is rare, but having researched my family tree I reckon there would be about 80 or 90 people with the name in the uk (and a few in Australia).

78842 for my married name
N/a for my maiden name

I knew I was classier than dh

Maiden name: 33351
Now: 3. Me, DH and DD (double barrelled)

This is really interesting.
Apparently only 58 people in the UK share my married name (and it's a fine olde Englishe surname, not a forrin import) and I know 12% of them personally!

Whereas my maiden name is shared by 24,892 people. Which is why we use it whenever we need to book anything over the phone - at least it is easy to spell!

0 with my married name - but then it's French so not surprising.

78004 with my maiden name.

The only unusual surname I could think of to look up was Shufflebottom - yes, it's a real one. There was one at school, and their dad was a vicar. So, do any of you answer to Ms Shufflebottom in real life?

0 with my maiden name and married name