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10-03-2008, 03:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | How common is your last name?
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My brother found this website through another message board so I thought I'd share it here. http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/
Here are the stats on my family name and frequency per million people:
United Kingdom: 1.88
Switzerland: 0.64
Canada: 0.46
Germany: 0.28
France: 0.05
United States: 0.01 |
10-03-2008, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Netherlands | | | Netherlands 3438.64
New-Zealand 37.55
Luxembourg 34.01
Belgium 31.81
Australia 26.41
Denmark 16.91
Switzerland 12.14
Sweden 5.06
France 4.78
Germany 4.71
I'm not surprised at all, I have one of the most common surnames in this country..
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10-03-2008, 03:47 PM
|  | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | | Country FPM
POLAND 15.97
CANADA 0.69
SERBIA 0.59
UNITED STATES 0.55
UNITED KINGDOM 0.11
Interesting. Nice find! |
10-03-2008, 03:48 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | UNITED KINGDOM 1907
AUSTRALIA 1863.95
UNITED STATES 1782.94
CANADA 1374.64
NEW-ZEALAND 1365.84
IRELAND 986.03
LUXEMBOURG 59.51
SPAIN 18.54
SWEDEN 17.7
DENMARK 15.61
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10-03-2008, 03:49 PM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | Quote: |
We could not found an exact match for "BIVRIN". Please search again.
| Figures. After all, my parents took that name from a book of suggested names at the patent office 40 years ago.
But if I search for the name they changed from: Andersson.
SWEDEN 32032.14
NORWAY 486.92
DENMARK 466.52
LUXEMBOURG 68.02
AUSTRALIA 22.39
It's easy to see why a change was needed.
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10-03-2008, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | NITED STATES 905.46
CANADA 664.28
AUSTRALIA 422.75
UNITED KINGDOM 269.82
IRELAND 173.14
Wow. I searched the three ways people try to spell my name almost every time (myer, meyer, meyers) and those are all WAY less common...
Go figure =/ |
10-03-2008, 03:50 PM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | United States 41.53
New Zealand 1.07
Switzerland 0.64
United Kingdom 0.5
France 0.3
Belgium 0.29
Germany 0.07
Kind of strange actually, as I 'bleeb my last name is of English origin. Probably need to do some more proper research.
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10-03-2008, 03:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | UNITED STATES 0.11
UNITED KINGDOM 0.04
Saw that one coming. |
10-03-2008, 03:53 PM
| | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | I traced my mom's family name. My city is the top in the world for occurrences of the name. Kinda neat.
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson i need food or something. Or sex. But, that doesn't come in a can. So..I'm getting food. | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner using a mac running vista is sorta creepy though. sorta like dating a tranny. i feel like hugh grant. | |
10-03-2008, 03:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Aylesford NS Canada | | | UNITED KINGDOM 117.7
NEW-ZEALAND 101.93
AUSTRALIA 66.4
IRELAND 49.03
CANADA 41.95
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10-03-2008, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | GERMANY 1.33
UNITED STATES 0.51
cool site
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10-03-2008, 03:58 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | IRELAND 3254.66
AUSTRALIA 324.64
UNITED KINGDOM 313.78
UNITED STATES 208.63
NEW-ZEALAND 188.84
CANADA 46.53
LUXEMBOURG 25.51
DENMARK 6.67
ARGENTINA 4.15
SPAIN 3.14
Quiet expected really.
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10-03-2008, 03:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | Interesting stuff. You can also check by city what the most common names are. http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Area.aspx
Where I currently live (Thunder Bay): Top Forenames Forename
BEN
BILL
BRUCE
JEFF
JOHN
LARRY
MIKE
PETER
TAMARA
TERRY Top Surnames Surname
AALTO
AEGARD
HEEREMA
ACHNEEPINESKUM
HEYDER
AALTOMAA
ADDUONO
SQUITTI
BJORN
CIZMAR
Where I lived most of my life (Oshawa): Top Forenames Forename
BILL
DAVID
JENNIFER
JOE
JOHN
PETER
ROBERT
STAN (surprising (not my first name BTW))
YUZARK (???)
ABBY Top Surnames Surname
BRYANT
HASTIE
HIGGINS
MYERS
SYKES
ABRAHAM
AFFOLTER
AGNEW
AVERY
AYOTTE |
10-03-2008, 04:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ontario | | | Mine is a very uncommon Dutch name
Netherlands 3
Germany .04
With the exception of my three kids, I'm certain I'm the only van Hemessen in Canada.
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10-03-2008, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | Donnelly
IRELAND 1633.33
UNITED KINGDOM 430.24
AUSTRALIA 411.62
NEW-ZEALAND 260.72
CANADA 184.06
UNITED STATES 147.87
AUSTRIA 3.17
ARGENTINA 3.1
SWEDEN 2.53
SPAIN 2.41 |
10-03-2008, 04:05 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | Tuckett:
AUSTRALIA 27.7
UNITED KINGDOM 10.49
NEW-ZEALAND 7.51
UNITED STATES 2.61
CANADA 2.06
SPAIN 0.1
ITALY 0.06
FRANCE 0.05
I didn't realise it was that common in the Land Down Under.
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10-03-2008, 04:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jacksonville, Florida | | | Norton:
NEW-ZEALAND 343.34
AUSTRALIA 341.08
IRELAND 313.71
UNITED KINGDOM 293.34
UNITED STATES 283.06
CANADA 151.74
SPAIN 4.19
FRANCE 2.86
NORWAY 2.83
SWITZERLAND 2.56
Wow. That actually took me by surprise. New Zealand? Really?
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10-03-2008, 04:10 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao Espaņa | | | LoL my last name is Garcia, i believe second or third worlds most common surname
SPAIN 36639.41
ARGENTINA 7535.77
FRANCE 1130.15
UNITED STATES 1045.54
SWITZERLAND 544.98 |
10-03-2008, 04:10 PM
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Brownchicken Browncow | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | UNITED STATES 157.42
AUSTRALIA 103.42
UNITED KINGDOM 91.46
CANADA 57.99
NEW-ZEALAND 56.87
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10-03-2008, 04:11 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Gress
Top Countries
Country FPM
GERMANY 38.49
UNITED STATES 16.53
AUSTRIA 9.92
FRANCE 9.76
DENMARK 8.29
CANADA 5.27
SWITZERLAND 3.83
ARGENTINA 1.13
UNITED KINGDOM 0.59
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