Surnames

[Mirth]

Fun British site, for those of you interested in the UK distribution of your surname :)

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx

[KNY]

I'm not in the UK, but that page won't load for me.

I was about to look for mine and say, shocker, it isn't there ;)

[emmasea]

Fun!

I used my maiden name, Leary. In 1998, we were mainly around Sheffield. In 1881 it was East Central London, and more then than now (-600 or so)

For my married name, I know it's British as FIL was born in Kent. Seager. Seems like it's popular in Medway in both 1881 and 1998, but many more in now than in 1881 (+800 or so).

I love census data and statistics and maps and all that :geek: No wonder it's my job ;)

[Panya]

I couldn't get that link to load either, but I typed in the main page name -- http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/ -- and it worked [just click on the big circle].

None of my family names are on there. But that's not surprising, seeing as how the last of my ancestors to come from the UK was in the mid-1800s. :)

[Mirth]

Don't forget, they won't have data for rarer names, although they're hoping to add it.

[speechykeen]

Fun!

My maiden name, Davis, is most common in Gloucester. (And apparently, for the US, most common in Arkansas!)

My married name is unrepresented. Of course, it's a German name, so go figure.

[Sobes]

Clark, my maiden name seems most populat in Scotland and around London and then snakes down the eastern coast between and around the southern coast a bit. (Clarke seems popular in a lot of the areas Clark isn't.) We think our Clarks came from Ireland and wonder if my g-g grandfather changed his name when he came from the East Coast to Iowa.

My mom's maiden name, Wallace is most popular in scotland (imagine that) but more the south and west part, whereas Clark is in the Northeast. Her mom's maiden name, Barett, seems to be most popular in southern England, but again, ours came from Ireland (would there be a reason for Irish immigrants to move to that area?) Another Irish family name - Ryan, seems scattered a bit, as is Larson, which is Danish in my family.

My current LN isn't on there, which seems right. Afaik all people with that last name are descendents of Shane's great grandfather (or else maybe his great grandfather), that if any of his relatives survived in Russia they would spell their name differently if they came over now.

[Rusalka]

Awesome :)

Apparently for mine (Ingram) ...

In 1881; the highest number of us are in the next county over/above mine, a cluster in Wales, and up in Scotland, which apparently is where the name originated anyway.

For 1998; same places actually, though the Wales contingent had conqured a few neighbouring counties.

[retro]

:haha: shocker.
99.09% British or unknown. yeah it's a straight up british name.
It's the #1 name in the White Van Culture Mosaic type:
http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/mosaic.php?type=H46
you can see what it is there

[LaLaLalena]

Neat!

I'm most found in Swindon in the UK, Queensland in Australia, Gisborne in NZ, and Vermont in the States. There's 6174 of us in the UK and 958 in Ireland. Around 200 everywhere else, with the least amount of us in the US [150]! My family's from Ireland and so is my ln.

My mom's maiden name has 1084 people in the UK, mostly in Stevenage, North London, and Ware. Then theres 250 in the states, mostly in NY, where my family is from. It's a Jewish ln.

[lacascada]

That was fun, but my geographical knowledge of Britain is unfortunately pretty much nonexistent. My name is mostly in the South, but if I alternate spellings it's all over the place.

[GeorgiaLola]

My maiden name is most popular in Preston. And in Wisconsin in the U.S. (no surprise--it's German).

Bob's name isn't on there (no shocker--it's Croatian).

My mother's maiden name is most common in Northern Ireland--Kilmarnock. Interesting, as it's Slovenian! ;)
But, I just read that it's a variant of Boyle, but her name is actually Slovenian, derived from the familiar name Valentin--Slovenians often transpose "V" and "B" and "A" and "O."
Most common U.S. state is Colorado.