- misspelled German
- not sure, but I’ll guess 8 or so
- mid-11000s
Maiden name:
- English.
- Traced back to a pair of brothers coming over from England somewhere in the 1700s, don’t remember exactly, and I can’t say off hand how many generations. At one point, one guy had a falling out with the family (might have been one of the brothers, don’t recall), and took off and changed the spelling. We’re descended from that guy.
- Original spelling, mid 71000s, our spelling, mid 24000s.
Married name:
- German
- Don’t know.
- Doesn’t appear on the list.
- Norwegian name.
- I am the first generation in my family in Australia. I was the third generation with the name in New Zealand.
- It ranks between 54100 and 54200 (quite rare then I guess.)
- Italian, and it has a meaning in Italian, that is kind of funny (a piece of clothe)
- Don’t know… I’m not that much into genealogy…
- It isn’t in the first list, but there’s a variation of it in the 8300’s
In France, it’s not a common name, I usually spell it before someone asks me to do so ! But apparently, there are some of us in South of France (naturally; and it’s where I come from), and in Normandy and Paris.
My maiden name is Swiss, I was the 7th generation in the US, and its in the 150’s (though I’ve only ever met/heard of one person other than family who had it).
My married name is Estonian, but was severely anglicised @ Ellis Island, sounds British, and I have yet to find it on any frequency chart. My husband is the 4th US generation of it.
My madien name:
- German
- I am the 3rd generation born here
- It’s not on the list. I have never met anyone with my last name who was not related to me. The only person in my family who has, that I know of, is my younger brother, who once had a co-worker with our last name. Boy, were they both surprised when they met!!!
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Maiden name: Germany; Married name: Germany.
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In both cases, in our particular families, our ancestors have been in this country for only 2 generations (our grandparents were immigrants). In the case of my maiden name, I know that there are people, probably unrelated to me, with that name who have been here longer.
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Maiden name ranks between 25,000 and 26,000 (on Tikki’s link). My husband’s name is not there at all, which surprises me, since there’s a woman at my company with the same last name. My husband’s last name was given to his grandfather at Ellis Island. Apparently, the guy in front of him on line had that name and when dear old grandad was asked if his last name was the same, he said yes, because he was afraid they’d send him home or something. My husband’s grandfather’s original last name comes in between 16,000 and 17,000. It’s Bulgarian.
Name’s English. At least, I assume so. It’s a common English word, and a common English name - but it’s also common in Scotland, which I don’t know if it cropped up independantly, or if it got there by Englishmen moving into the country.
It’s really hard to say how many generations of my family have lived in Canada. The definition needs refining. I’m a member of at least the fourth generation to have lived in Newfoundland, but, when my grandparents were born, Newfoundland wasn’t IN Canada (in fact, it hadn’t been for that long when my parents were born). In any case, it’s been at least 4 generations since my ancestors left England. (At least, I assume…)
My name is in the top 30 on that list.
1) I’m not asking you to reveal your surname – but if you know its origin, as in which foreign country it first appeared in, can you identify that country?
Wales.
2) If you know, or can make a reasonable guess, how many generations of ancestors with your surname have lived in your present country?
Hmmm… two or three, I think.
3) Roughly where does your surname appear on a Surname Frequency list?
Top 5.
Er, that is, as far as two or three, I’m talking my immediate ancestors. I’m also a Jones, so who knows how long that surname has been in the country.
My surname is German and means something related to barnyard animals 
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I know a relative was in the Civil War but that may have been on mom’s side. I thought the folks with my surname came over in the early 1800s???
It ranks around 22,000 and doesn’t show a frequency at all given the number of decimal places.
Its origin is Welsh
At least five generations here in the US
It ranks in the top 150
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Norman Irish. The name is a slightly altered version of a name that’s known to have arrived with the Normans around 1100.
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My parents immigrated here, so not long in America. I have not been able to discover when the name first appeared in the present form in Ireland, but it was certainly some time ago.
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0.001 %. Common enough in Ireland, but not too common. Can be found in pockets of the US and most of those people are probably related to me.
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Norway
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4th generation (my great-grandfather immigrated, fought for the Union in the Civil War as a non-citizen, and used his soldier’s pay to buy a farm after the war)
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Out past 11,000
And now XJETGIRLX and AwSnappity have me singing “The Ukraine girls really knock me out, and leave the west behind…”
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My surname is French
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Not positive how long it’s been in the U.S. … I’d ballpark it at 6-8 generations.
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Down in the 4100s.
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My last name is fairly common in Poland and the former Soviet Union, but my paternal ancestors came from what is now the Czech Republic.
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I’m in the fourth generation of my family to bear the name in the USA. The fifth generation consists solely of my brother’s adopted son.
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4500-4600 range
As for my mother’s maiden name:
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Swiss (German language)
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At least the sixth generation (includes one cousin’s two kids).
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In the 25,000-26,000 range. It’s most common (albeit merely green on the map) in Iowa – not surprising, as it’s the name of a town founded about 150 years ago by some of my now-deceased relatives in that state.
- My maiden name is Polish.
- My paternal grandparents came to the US in the early 1900s
- No surprise to me - it doesn’t appear on the list at all.
My mom’s maiden name is there between 9500 and 9550, also Polish, and her grandparents arrived in the US in the early 1900s
My married name is quite common - within the top 110 - but no one in my husband’s family ever bothered to keep track of who came from where when.
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As a specific geographic place my surname can be found on recorded documents back to the year 800 CE. As belonging to a particular forebear, it’s more recent, only about 1670. But everyone with my surname is descended from that particular forebear.
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In the US, I’m 5th generation with that surname.
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It’s uncommon, it doesn’t appear on those listings.
1: Wolfsburg Germany
2: 1784 for first birth, probably a few years before that for immigration.
3: 22,000 or so.
- Scottish, actually a rather well known scottish family name.
- I believe 4 generations
- In it’s current modified form, between 2600 and 2700. In it’s original form, over 70,000