It can go all the way down to the county level, which is kinda crazy.
31,493 people have my surname.
And I will fight them all*
so im not at all surprised that Yi is the 118th most common last name and there are more than 4 million people that share it…. tbh its really nice and i feel very connected right now
Only 1,245 have my surname. That’s still a lot more than I thought there would be…
less than 800 people out of 7 billion have my surname
which was surprising until i remembered that my surname isn’t real, but a bastardization of my family’s actual name that was altered at ellis island for being “too ethnic”
332,831 people have my surname.
I’m honestly surprised my mother’s surname, Southworth, is less common by a large amount.
2,381,466th most common in the world. Approximately 23 have the american spelling of it.
Which amuses me bc they changed it when they came through Ellis island.
The Italian spelling is:1,485,262nd most common, Approximately 69 in Italy with it. Hm.
5479 people have my last name.
Married name? 31 people have it and 22 of them are from the US.
Maiden name? 777…193 in the US and most of them are from Italy.
Mother’s maiden name? 4,299,506.
Last name: 495,000 people
How everyone misspells my last name: 1,520,000 peopleOkay, fair.
Actual surname: ~63K. (At the county level, there are 41 in the county where my dad grew up. I think my relatives account for around 30 of those.)
Original “ethnic” surname, before my umpty-great grandfather changed it*: 122, entirely in eastern Europe (except for one in Argentina. O_o). I bet I’m related to all of them. Neat that in this day and age I could actually find out (one of my aunts tried to find out genealogical information from the first-generation immigrants, only to be told “we left for a reason, we’re not gonna talk about it, bug off.” the name they eventually gave her when she pressed them for a place to look up translated to “little town.”)
Mother’s maiden name: approx 1.5 million. Lineage is given as Scottish, although my grandfather was Swedish. Guess most of the Swedes spell it the other way. XD
Maternal Grandmother’s maiden name: 973. Probably related to all of them. (Saw the 7 in New Zealand and thought “ah yes, the New Zealand cousins, I wonder how they’re doing.”)
Paternal grandmother’s maiden name: ~21k.
I FIND THIS STUFF VERY INTERESTING, OK.
* My umpty-great grandfather was said to be “illiterate in four languages” (which meant he could walk into a bar and pick a fight with ANYONE.) He changed his original Eastern European Jewish surname for the name of the street where he caught the bus to work, reasoning that since he saw it every day he could probably spell it.
This site will tell you how common your surname is worldwide
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