Where is your name popular?
 

This site tells you where in the world your surname occurs most often. Pretty cool - and surprising!!

GERMANY 0.35 Frequency Per Million
UNITED STATES 0.21 Frequency Per Million

UNITED KINGDOM 842.97
AUSTRALIA 833.21
UNITED STATES 739.75
NEW ZEALAND 692.04
CANADA 417.64
IRELAND 267.08
BELGIUM 40.41
LUXEMBOURG 17
FRANCE 13.56
SWITZERLAND 11.5

(all are FPM)

I guess mine's pretty popular.

Going with my maiden name, but I already know the origins of it. As expected:

GERMANY 10.58
UNITED STATES 1.74
AUSTRIA 0.79
NETHERLANDS 0.43
FRANCE 0.35

My current surname is my ex's and, of course, my youngest daughters', which is a different story:

SPAIN 22836.31
ARGENTINA 10661.81
FRANCE 519.22
SWITZERLAND 442.76
UNITED STATES 275.96

Interesting.

My maiden name:
UNITED STATES 127.12
AUSTRALIA 18.12
CANADA 8.94
UNITED KINGDOM 8.87
NEW ZEALAND 2.15


My married name:
POLAND 306.66
SLOVENIA 81.2
GERMANY 27.08
NETHERLANDS 15.52
UNITED STATES 9.73

What is even more interesting to me is the area of the US that my Jewish maiden name is seen. It is seen more in the eastern region of country, like New Jersey, New York, and Florida. I don't know, I just thought that was cool, and probably very accurate. And my husband comes from a very Polish family, so that is no surprise that it's in the top position.

Country FPM
UNITED STATES 1.47
ARGENTINA 0.93
CANADA 0.23

OK, so it's a Ukranian sorta Jewish name, and yeah, that's generally where Ukranian people went when they left E. Europe, but why aren't there any hits for the Ukraine, Poland, or Russia?

Now i see that it only searches the grey places. Hmmph. But it still misses my entire family, for whatever reason. None of the cities, states, or provinices where my relatives live show up in the US or Canada listings.

AUSTRALIA 879.81
UNITED STATES 845.01
UNITED KINGDOM 760.34
NEW ZEALAND 668.44
CANADA 631.28
IRELAND 219.42

thats suprising...didn't expect to see Australia on top of the list.

NETHERLANDS 3.21
DENMARK 0.33
UNITED STATES 0.24
UNITED KINGDOM 0.22
GERMANY 0.07

Netherlands...who knew? I don't think I can trace any ancestry to Netherlands...everything on my dad's side ends up in Scotland.

Antwerp?

Well, I found that with the spelling I use, the most common place is Sweden. But if I change it to the original spelling before it got mangled at Ellis Island, the most commons place is Poland, which is what I would have expected.

Germany_______3973.48
Austria________1713.68
Switzerland____1268.15
Luxembourg___1266.8
United States__513.98

I win! Wait, what do I win?

It is interesting. My maiden name is Austrian but the popularity there is lower. Since the family was killed off and only a couple were able to escape, that must account for the popularity emigration.

Something similar in your family, maybe?

You wish :p

3.92fpm
Interesting. My Surname is only in the United States and Tennessee is the top state which makes sense seeing how my Grandfather moved here from Tennessee when he was younger. Funny that my little town of around 800 is listed on the top cities..

Mine is most popular in Ireland, then Australia..

I wonder what the numbers would look like if you put in "Mohammed Wang Singh".
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Hmm, I think the site is broken.

Here's mine:

AUSTRALIA 517.51
NORWAY 450.44
NEW ZEALAND 368.02
CANADA 259.71
UNITED STATES 180.51

My name should have come up in Asia like big time but the site doesn't include Asian countries. It only seems to include western ones. Boooooooo!

IRELAND 590.73
UNITED STATES 163.94
AUSTRALIA 148.86
NEW ZEALAND 92.27
UNITED KINGDOM 92.16

Time to start drinking?

Sweden 5 fpm
Germany 2fpm
US 1 fpm

Pretty accurate =o

I don't need to look it up--Wales, United Kingdom.

Very much not what i was expecting:
NEW ZEALAND 3031.03
AUSTRALIA 2409.68
UNITED KINGDOM 2307.4
CANADA 1990.45
UNITED STATES 1582.32
IRELAND 609.93
SWEDEN 51.82
LUXEMBOURG 34.01
NORWAY 31.67
SPAIN 21.16

Netherlands-52.97 fpm

U.S.-42.22 fpm.

not what i was expecting either.

France 0.54
belgium 0.29
united states 0.11
germany 0.04
united kingdom 0.02

New Zealand: 128.75 FPM.... WTF?
United States: 74.16 FPM
Australia: 58.25 FPM

WHY CAN'T I BE A NOVEL HUMAN BEING?!! WHY GOD WHY!!!!

Germany 5.78
Sweden 2.53
United States 2.26
Austria 0.4
France 0.2

I thought Denmark would be up there but I knew Germany and the US would be.

SPAIN 466
ARGENTINA 149.92
SWITZERLAND 11.5
UNITED STATES 10.29
FRANCE 8.53

Spain, I get.
Argentina, I get.
The US, I get.

But Switzerland? And France? Weird.

NEW ZEALAND 36.48
NETHERLANDS 1.07
UNITED KINGDOM 0.53
UNITED STATES 0.41
BELGIUM 0.29

Yep. Family is from The Netherlands, but most of us are in NZ. When I lived in Chicago, I was the only guy with my surname in the entire phone book

Austria, Germany and France is where my name is most often used.

For my father's adoptive surname:

Country FPM
IRELAND 417.59
AUSTRALIA 131.77
NEW ZEALAND 72.96
UNITED KINGDOM 21.33
UNITED STATES 10.02
CANADA 4.13
SPAIN 0.73
NORWAY 0.57
NETHERLANDS 0.21
FRANCE 0.05

For his birth surname:

Country FPM
NETHERLANDS 71.81
UNITED STATES 16.34
NEW ZEALAND 5.36
CANADA 5.04
BELGIUM 2.29
NORWAY 0.85
ARGENTINA 0.81
IRELAND 0.69
DENMARK 0.65
SWITZERLAND 0.64

Until a year ago, I never knew of his adoption and thought I was a bona fide Irishman. Seems I may be Dutch! Oh, well, I'm still ME!

It's kind of hard to say without knowing the name, but France is next to Spain, and people do go over the Pyrenees from time to time. Switzerland is a Francophone country not that far from Spain.

Top Countries
Country FPM
NETHERLANDS ~150
NEW ZEALAND ~80
AUSTRALIA ~50
UNITED STATES ~50
UNITED KINGDOM ~20
GERMANY ~10
POLAND ~5
CANADA ~5
SPAIN <1
SWITZERLAND <1

Married name:

UNITED KINGDOM 63.89 (Wales mostly)
AUSTRALIA 27.96
CANADA 8.02
NEW ZEALAND 6.44
UNITED STATES 4.07 (Utah being the most populous state for the name)

Hubby doesn't have a terribly common last name, especially in the US.

Maiden name:

UNITED KINGDOM 1527.11
AUSTRALIA 1496.86
NEW ZEALAND 1410.9
UNITED STATES 1332.65
CANADA 687.89

My maiden name is very common.

Okay, I guess that makes sense. The surname is Arenas. It's extremely uncommon, even in Latin American countries. So that's why I was like "uuuuuuhhhh" when I saw it was that common in France and Switzerland. I think I need to learn me a map.

The results aren't at all surprising, considering my dad was born in the Netherlands.


NETHERLANDS 4514.08
NORWAY 742.82
GERMANY 526.73
BELGIUM 417.73
DENMARK 216.43

germany and the u s......xoxoxoo

New zealand 158.79
canada 153.12
australia 151.71
united kingdom 149.12
united states 45.87

This site is pretty damn awesome!

Countries:

GERMANY ................... 47.55
NETHERLANDS .......... 36.81
AUSTRIA ...................... 8.73
SWITZERLAND .......... 5.75
FRANCE ........................ 3.11

UNITED STATES ........ 1.86

Country / frequency per million:

My married name:
IRELAND 451.19
UNITED STATES 266.71
AUSTRALIA 219.66
UNITED KINGDOM 205.63
NEW ZEALAND 65.45
CANADA 43.32
SPAIN 2.83
SWITZERLAND 2.56
DENMARK 1.95
NORWAY 1.41

My maiden name:
UNITED STATES 228.96
NEW ZEALAND 192.05
UNITED KINGDOM 181.89
AUSTRALIA 167.11
CANADA 68.77
INDIA 16.68
IRELAND 13.37
LUXEMBOURG 8.5
NETHERLANDS 8.35
FRANCE 7.89

Without looking at the site, I can easily say that my married name is most popular in Lebanon, and my maiden name occurs nowhere else as often as in Iceland. Immigrant parents, immigrant husband. :D

EDIT: After checking the site, I'm disappointed. It seems to be designed only for Western names (US, Europe, Australia/NZ), and they don't seem to have ANY Icelandic names. Lame!!! And Lebanon doesn't even appear to be on their map. My married name came up as most popular in Switzerland... hahaha. Maybe there are a lot of Lebanese there, but that's not where the name comes from.