In which states is your last name most common ?

[Tender Branson]

Since I have an arch-Austrian/Bavarian last name, obviously in Austria.

In the US, my last name is most common in Wisconsin.

The last name from my mother's side is also an arch-Austrian/Bavarian last name and most common in Iowa.

http://forebears.io/surnames

[Tender Branson]

Interestingly, my last name's relative frequency is 2nd-highest in Israel, after Austria. And the frequency almost matches the Austrian level ...

I thought it would be the US or Germany ...

Using Google, there are actually a ton of people in Israel with my last name.

[Tender Branson]

There are only 134 worldwide with my last name.

There are probably more than that, because these websites often use phonebook entries and many people are not in a phonebook.

[Tender Branson]

Here you can look in which Austrian districts your last name is most common:

http://namenskarten.lima-city.at

My last name is most common in Zell am See district (what a surprise ), my mother's last name in Innsbruck-suburbs.

Don't know really how exact that is, because I typed in "Van der Bellen" and there seem to be only a few VdB's in Burgenland and nowhere else.

But our next President actually lives in Vienna now and lived in Tyrol before ...