# Where does your last name rank? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584 "2003-11-27T16:10:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/61 "2003-11-27T20:37:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > **ICHINOSE** New Scientist magazine once pointed out someone by the name of Yuki Ichinose. No word on if he suffers from allergies. – 35 538 ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/62 "2003-11-27T20:40:17Z")
Surname: not there. But the variations which people often misspell my name as (as in “Are you sure there’s no ‘s’ at the end?”) are all there. First name: one thousands. And it’s common misspelling is much higher. Husband’s name: not there at all. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/63 "2003-11-27T20:51:50Z")
First, middle and last names all in top 75. I’m almost as common as **Steve Wright**. I’ve never been able to successfully google my name and come up with anything relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/64 "2003-11-27T21:01:32Z")
First Name: 143 Last Name: 2332 (my name’s fairly common, to the point where I knew a GUY with the same first and last names as me in high school) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/65 "2003-11-27T21:16:21Z")
First name is top 150 (guess it’s a lot more common in the US than I thought). My name also shows up in the 340’s on the female names. My last name lurks around the mid 62,000’s - less than 0.000% ---
**Author:** ![Anni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Anni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anni)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/66 "2003-11-27T21:23:30Z")
My last name is #9506. Of course, it ranks a lot higher (#21) here in Finland. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/67 "2003-11-27T21:33:41Z")
First in the top five, last in the high 3000s. ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/68 "2003-11-27T21:49:45Z")
Last Name - Top 40 (a common misspelling just inside 200) First Name - Top 5 Nickname - between 150 - 200 Middle (as a last) - between 600 - 650 PlanWife - 350 - 400 her maiden - just inside 900 (although it is an Ellis Island version of a Syrian name, which I don’t know) PlanDaughter - non listed as we spell it, but a varient is in the top 500, and another spelling is between 1200-1250 the middle name PlanWife and PlanDaughter share (and a few generations back) - Top 10 And I thought my parents had unusual names, but Dad - top 300 Mom - top 200 So we jes common folks (which I suspected) Anybody know what the other 2 columns of numbers are? ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/69 "2003-11-27T22:06:00Z")
[Here](http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/nam_meth.txt) is the detailed methodology of the list. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/70 "2003-11-27T22:14:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mycroft Holmes \* > \*\*The English word that corresponds to our last name is actually ranked tenth. I guess there must have been a real shortage of clothing sometime in the past to actually have accounted for so many "Taylors, “Snijders” and “Schneiders” 😃 \*\* Oh, how I hate when people spell it “Snyder.” That’s a perfectly fine name. It’s just not mine. And in my case, it comes from Yiddish, not German. A lot of people make that (entirely understandable) mistake as well. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/71 "2003-11-27T22:23:56Z")
My last name is close to 83000, though there are quite a few variations. **Zyada** is under 7000. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/72 "2003-11-27T22:27:22Z")
3 out of every 100,000 people have my last name. Which seems about right. Strangely, only 4 out of every 100,000 people have the last name that you get if you misspell my last name. Which is not so much more that it makes sense that people always jump to the wrong spelling. (Especially since my name is the phonetic spelling.) My first name is in the top 50. One of those names that’s familiar but not overly common. I have met another me. It was very weird. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/73 "2003-11-27T22:31:06Z")
Wow 20. I’d never have thought there were so many. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/74 "2003-11-27T22:49:28Z")
My last name is in the high 75,100s. It’s a corruption of a German name, and everyone still wants to spell it the German way (with a z at the end, not an s). The `original' spelling is in the high 5,500s, so I suppose it's more common and the urge to `correct’ us must be strong. But I’ll be damned if I change the spelling. 🙂 My first name is barely out of the top ten, and easily fits in the first screenful. But then, my parents weren’t the most imaginative namers in the world. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/75 "2003-11-27T22:54:01Z")
My surname is not listed either, however my given name is in the 800’s. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/76 "2003-11-27T22:57:17Z")
My first, middle and last names add up to less than 2500. I guess I’m fairly ordinary after all. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/77 "2003-11-27T23:06:15Z")
Name doesn’t exist on the list. :sad: ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/78 "2003-11-27T23:27:42Z")
Last name is in the top 10, first name in the top 150. I’ve known a few people with my name; in fact there is another person with the same name in my company that works in a very similar position as me but in a completely different city. We get each other’s emails all the time. There’s one guy in my town that shares my name; apparently he’s a hockey player and quite the ladies man – I would get calls at all hours of the night from strange women wanting to know when they could see me again. Got me a lot of strange looks from my SO. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/79 "2003-11-27T23:30:49Z")
8238 ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584/80 "2003-11-27T23:38:11Z")
My last name is in the 14,500 area. My maiden name isn’t there at all. My first name is around 4250, so now I know my parents didn’t invent it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-your-last-name-rank/215584.md?page=5)