Fascinating surname website - where is yours from?

[JanH]

Put it in here and see where you belong. Or your mum, or your best friend, or anybody else you know.

I have the 15,874th most common surname in GB.

Mine doesn't exist according to that site lol I kind of expected that, I do have an enlish surname but it's so rare people often think its foreign and totally wierd! lol

English obviously..I don't know what enlish is

mine isnt listed!!!

Less than 1300 records of it. DP's is 2937th popular.

Ooooh vvvq, whats yours? Do you think we could start a clique of unusual surnamed mnetters?? lmao

Mines not listed either!

My MIL's name isn't there either but she is from NI.

LOL! Its not even my dads original/birth surname.

My maiden name is 727th most common - in its original spelling, before my great-grandfather messed with it, it's 1010th most common - he thought it was classier the way he spelt it

Our name now is 378th so we are dead common.

Mine isn't listed

dh's doesn't exist or too few records of it. My maiden name is very very common english surname

Maiden name is the 4th most common
Married name is 3550th.

Very strange, as according to that website, Patel is the 45th most common name in the Uk and 5-25% of people in the area i come from (Dumfries and Galloway) have it as their surname, and yet it says my surname doesn't exsist.. yet on this site
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my surname is most common in D&G.

maiden name (scottish): 1,343rd most common
in aberdeenshire tis the 3rd most common

married name (welsh, common as muck): 29th most common

neither my maiden name or married name exist ! I expected this of my maiden name but not married name.

not enough data!

Not surprisingly married name most common in Scotland (being a Mc), but was surprised at maiden name being most common in County Durham.

Mine is the 1582nd most common surname. I am pretty sure that I am the only person with my surname in Bath, but I could be wrong though.

My surname, however is 10 a penny in Ireland.

DPs surname, however, is one of the most Anglo Saxon names you cabn get, but his is lower down the list than mine, at 3 168th most common

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162nd most common.

Mine appears to be most common in Bath and Wrexham, which is a bit weird since it sounds like it should come from a coal-mining area...

There's another website - that I also got off Mumsnet here

It tells you how many people on the electoral roll with your surname. There are 238 with mine, it doesn't show up on the other website.

Thanks for that Maretta. There are only 60 people in the country with my surname!

Bizarre! My married name doesn't even appear on the lists - although it is a variation of a name that does. Knew DH's lot couldn't spell!

My maiden name which is Irish is 1013rd most common in UK.

My married name doesn't appear. But I know that it originates in Devon.

My maiden name is the 442nd most common in the GB. I was surprised at that. Mainly it is northern but with a pocket in Somerset and also very popular in Rutland.

Will look at the other sites now.