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 had no idea my surname was so common, it's 137th on the list.

According to the website saltire linked to there were 237 people with my surname in 1998. And according to the one Maretta linked to there are 239 people with it now.

Now I got married in 1998 and have had two children since then - so that is +3. But my SIL got married in 2000 and DH's Grandad died in 2005 so that is -2. So I have 1 unaccounted for!

Explains why I am constantly spelling it out though...

my name is not on it - but as it is very old German (ie unusual even to a German), then I wasn't epxecting to me. As far as I am aware, there are ony 5 in the whole of the UK - my parents, my brother and I, and an exteremly distant cousin (ie we only managed to work out the relationship via the full family tree and I made contact with her via a genealogy website) who has moved to this country from SOuth Africa, where the vast majority of "my name" now are.

My husband's name is also not in it - but then he has an unusual Scottish name and we've never come across anyone else with it. We think it might have a Northern Irish connection.

mines from Fife, and its the 2709th

married one isn't on there (suprise suprise LOL).

Maiden name is 1216th - apparently

Married name is common as muck, maiden name is rare as hens' teeth. Clearly, I married beneath me.

900th most common.

Did anyone hear that thing about evidence of African ancestry being in Britain since at least Roman times? They think Roman legionnaries etc., inter-married with anshunt Britons and a particular unusual surname was found to be linked with an African one and DNA - but they won't say what the surname is, for some reason.

Very incoherent, but I thought that was quite interesting. Here's the link to the story

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Sorry, your search didn't return any results because we don't have enough data for this surname (nonexistent or less than 1300 records).

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My married name is Welsh and is the 30th most common surname in GB.

My maiden name is the 436th most common name in GB.

6000ish people have my surnmae and most of those are in the Highlands!! We live on the South coast!

My maiden name is 1692nd and most people with the name live in Brighton.

Married name is 355th and lots in the Midlands.

But name is originall supposed to be a Scottish name and that's not mentioned at all.

And for DP's . CD's surname it came back :

Sorry, your search didn't return any results because we don't have enough data for this surname (nonexistent or less than 1300 records).

dp's and the children's surname is the 46th most popular in britain.

*common not popular lol

My maiden name isn't listed.

My married name is the 52nd most common in Britain, and is the most common name in the Orkneys, which really surprises me. It's the 123rd most common in my area.

'Sorry, your search didn't return any results because we don't have enough data for this surname (nonexistent or less than 1300 records)'

I know where it comes from though... it means 'pike' in dutch and my paternal family comes from the islands off the north of Holland where they decend from a long line of reformist protestant ministers and fishermen. it's a rare surname over there too and my parents and i are the only people over here in ireland with it

I just went to the very last page of rankings and look what's at position 16,989 with 1509 people, allegedly

In fact a lot of the names on that page are odd, to put it mildly - could they be made-up deed-poll names? (They'd never allow Fuck though, would they?)

I'm disappointed with it now!

5256th most common name in Great Britain. Most of them are in hampshire which is where DH family come from.

MNCUBE???

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