How Common Is Your Last Name?

[Colin]

Well I think we know where all the bastards are:



That explains Sam Spade.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Well I think we know where all the bastards are:



That explains Sam Spade.

     I found another humorous last name:



     Now we need to figure out who this explains.

[Ban my account ffs!]

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Here's one that the members of Anonymous will appreciate :

[MaxQue]

My two family names. Yes, I have names of each of my parents. That is annoying to write since that is long. That was common in Quebec since the wife don't take the name of his husband. So maiden name doesn't exist.

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/L/LEVESQUE.gif

http://www.gens-us.net/map/maps/cognomi/B/BELLERIVE.gif

[Hash]

Number of Pakistanis:

[Middle-aged Europe]

No, it's not my last name...

[Middle-aged Europe]

[Hatman 🍁]

rofl

[Hash]

Other names in my family

[GMantis]

Though it's rather more common in Bulgaria:
http://georgi.unixsol.org/programs/bg_names_stats/top_male_surnames.txt.gz
(And, my family name is not Potter, not anymore that my first name is Dessie).

[Spaghetti Cat]

[Stranger in a strange land]

This feature has provided me with many hours of entertainment!

One of its best features is that it gives us a reasonably good idea of the distribution of various ethnicities. For example, here's where the Koreans are:



and the Jews:



and the Hungarians:




(interesting how closely those two correlate)

and the Hmong:



and last but not least, the Cantonese:

[Hatman 🍁]

you can find where the Cantonese (Wong) and the Mandarins (Wang) are as well:

[Хahar 🤔]

Generally, I've found that Mandarins are better-off than Cantonese.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Generally, I've found that Mandarins are better-off than Cantonese.

     Doesn't surprise me. During the Song dynasty, government officials & their families were called Mandarins (I think; haven't studied it in a long time).

[Hash]

Dynasties

[??????????]

I remember the last time everyone posted these maps it crashed their website.

[Verily]

Speaking of dynasties, the Chinese dynasties:












(Qing is above.)

[7,052,770]

[HappyWarrior]

[bgwah]

Per capita would be more interesting. And they use a rather awful color scale...

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Supposedly, I'm one of 50.

[minionofmidas]

Actually, "Moderate" gives surname not found.

Ah ha! As I always suspected!

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Actually, "Moderate" gives surname not found.

Ah ha! As I always suspected!

u found me out