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http://www.hamrick.com/names/index.html

Enter in your last name and it will show a map of how many people with the same name are distributed around the US.

For example, the last name of Smith (1990 Census)


The color of each state indicates how frequently you will find someone with this surname in each state. For instance, if a state is colored red, then 1 in 100 people (or more) in that state have the surname. Similarly, yellow means approximately 1 in 300 have the surname, green means 1 in 1000, and blue means 1 in 10,000 (or less).

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Location: NYC
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cool!
the name Yuan in 1990 ..

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Location: A New England
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I got 1 in 1000 in Texas in 1880.

Otherwise I am pretty damn unique in my sexiness.

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Our database contains the 50,000 most commonly occurring
names in the United States. Unfortunately, the name
you selected isn't contained in this database. Try using
a slightly different spelling of this name.

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Or through my step fathers name:

Our database contains the 50,000 most commonly occurring names in the United States. Unfortunately, the name you selected isn't contained in this database. Try using a slightly different spelling of this name

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Location: Octopus's Garden
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Bahhhh

You not unique unless your name is not in the database.

Which of course pertains to me.

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Location: seattle-ish
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My married name isnt in their database(not surprised). My maiden name(Ragland) was as follows:

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Originally posted by karen
My married name isnt in their database(not surprised). My maiden name(Ragland) was as follows:

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Location: Payne, Ohio
Posts: 2062

heres mine/

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Try using the "All years" function and see how your surname has spread since 1850.

This is how my surname hs spread:

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Location: Payne, Ohio
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damn billgerat

your ancestors must have fucked like rabbits.

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Originally posted by stormydoctor
damn billgerat

your ancestors must have fucked like rabbits.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: MA
Posts: 2728

Neato.

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Location: the heart of an awl
Posts: 3691

like a virus:



>>edit: to kill that nasty sig

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Apparently Jaye is unusual?

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Location: Sedona, Arizona
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That is way cool. We be rabbits too

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Location: Bangor, ME
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hmmmm that is interesting, seems as though the Cook's were killed in Oregon and Minnesota? throughout the years



haha! the Garcia's took over New Mexico first! thats funny

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Goatboy has done ours, although I checked and I see that we now have a pale-blue presence in Maine. Perhaps they will put me up for more Maine pissups... I also found that there was someone of our name in massachussettes in 1600s, according to some other site that I meant to bookmark and google is now determined to hide from me.

Well, thankfully I have been able to discover that my surname comes from old English (although another site said that is from French for 'Born of Fire', which is a cool name but sadly French. Chacun a son gout, as I hope that my ancestors wouldn't have understood).

Anyway, surname origins can be found here (this is the site that gave me the answer that I wanted, I won't hear a word against it!)

http://www.cproots.com/surnameorigi...esmissindex.htm


(Mostly joking about the French thing)

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and a culture point for bill for all the cool links you post!

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I tried a couple of the names used in my family and they had no matches so in the first one I used one that I forgot wasn’t blood, this is the only match I can get with a blood relative...

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Location: Northeast Merka
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1 or two in florida, then. I think there's more Adderleys in Canada though.

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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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The mere fact that mine is in the list surprises me:



Of course, it's only in the 1990. None of the earlier ones.

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Originally posted by Smug Git

Well, thankfully I have been able to discover that my surname comes from old English (although another site said that is from French for 'Born of Fire', which is a cool name but sadly French. Chacun a son gout, as I hope that my ancestors wouldn't have understood).

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it's so nice to have members of a royal family here on the forum!

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My surname wasn't listed in Smug's link. But I ran across this article in the Seattle P-I this morning.

SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE

01/17/2002

WHAT'S IN A NAME? LOTS OF HISTORICAL INFO

By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist

Tribune Media Services



Our ancestors were keen observers of the topography where they lived and, not surprisingly, many of our surnames reflect these references. Such surnames are called habitation and topographic names.

Some of us bear surnames derived from ancient English farms or hamlets where our ancestors once lived or places from which they acquired the surname because they had recently moved from that place. Recently, though, would be hundreds of years ago, when surnames were becoming fixed. The bulk of European surnames in countries such as England and France were formed in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Tracing back to the very first user of a common topographic or habitation surname is usually impossible. Yet, it can be a great genealogical and historical adventure to see how far back you can determine that your family has used a particular surname. Some English surnames can be traced back to the 11th-century Norman invaders who took their names from the estates in England they acquired. Making the historical links between your family and these families requires genealogical skill.

Millions of us bear surnames, such as Hill and Woods, that are derived from rather common topographic features. However, in many English names are some distinctive prefixes and suffixes that expose them as names derived from habitations or the topography.

Surnames such as Atwater (referring to someone who lived at or near a lake or river) or Atwood (one who resided in the woods) or Aston (derived from Old English "ast" meaning east, plus tun --an enclosure or settlement) are examples of such surnames.

Even compass directions have become part of our surnames. Eastwood lived