I don’t know how the census works in the US, but do you suppose some people wrote fake names on their forms?
I bet many of the Lee’s are Asian.
My last name is 7479 - pretty high for a Japanese name.
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However - my MIDDLE name is in the 1500 range. My middle name was my great grandmother’s maiden name, which has been turned into a family tradition middle name.
My wife’s maiden name is in the low 400s, her first name is in the 70s.
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”
The methodology looks a little suspect to me. They are obviously ranking names that are equivelent in popularity and throwinging a rank in arbitrarily.(Unless by some huge coincidence the most popular names from rank 75677 to 88799 happen to fall in alphebetical order :)) It really should be in ranking groups toward the bottom of the list.
As far as first names go, my given name is #1 (yay me!) but the name everyone calls me (not what you’re thinking) is in the 1241s. So I am more unique than originally thought!
Last name is, surprisingly, 5650, much higher than I would have thought.
Even more of a surprise: my wife’s maiden name is only 2718 – I never would have guessed it was more common than mine.
However, I’m not surprised my mother’s maiden name doesn’t make the list. AFAIK, it’s unique to her family and relatives, though I have seen it crop up in other countries.
My goodness! I would have lost serious money on any bet about how popular my surname is. It’s way, way more popular than I would ever have imagined based on many 3174 people I’ve run into over the years. It’s so high up in fact, relative to names I just know are more popular, that it leads me to question the credibility of this list.