How Common Is Your Last Name?

[Torie]

Here is a trivia question. Out of the 1,000 most common surnames used in the United States, what surname in the United States has the highest percentage of blacks of the total for that surname using it? What surname is second? What surname has the highest absolute number of blacks in the US using it?

My surname is rather evenly dispersed so it is pretty boring. I was told at one time that the highest incidence was in North Carolina, but that may just be idle chat.

[Torie]

White was the 14th most common black name in the United States in absolute numbers.   In percentage terms, the surname with the highest percentage of blacks using that name had a percentage of 89.87% of the total using that surname.

[Torie]

Click here and then click onf "file A" for the top 1,000 sunames in the US, and you wil get an excel file of the  top 1,000 names for the excel file, by incidence and race, and you too will have the keys to the kingdom. I did an excel sort, and did a multiplication function, to get the data to pose my questions.

[Torie]

OK Opebo, then delete my mother's maiden name sentence from your quote, as I did from my post. I take your point. I guess one cannot be too paranoid.