Link: Surname Occurences - Check Yours

[toni*]

when watching Esther Rantzen on WDYTYA she said she was connected to all the Rantzen in the UK - i don't think there are that many. a bit like my Wojciechowskyj 

[XPhile2868]

This old threads on Rootsweb seems to give 50 of the rarest surnames (it also mentions Balderstone, which is an old surname in my family tree from quite a few hundred years ago) - http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-TRIVIA-ENG/1999-07/0933312952

Stephen

[Alexander.]

Just came across this thread...the website was very interesting, thanks. I couldn't resist looking up mine...though I think I'll stick with Frecknall and forget all the others. 

My eight main surnames (count Johnson twice)
NEALE         count 12657   rank 584
BAXTER       count 26899   rank 253
FELLOWS    count 8737     rank 895
JOHNSON    count 193260 rank 10
FRECKNALL count 147       rank 25970     
HALL           count 145231 rank 20
COOK         count 88299    rank 53

[Temic]

My ONS: Parchment count 649 (rank 9264)

Of the surnames that I'm connected to nothing appears for Cressel(l), while rarer ones for me include

Eddishaw count 27 (rank 74851)

one of whom married a

Pollicott    count 111 (rank 31017)
(plus 8 with -"Pollicutt" var.; rank 167220)

others:

Crampin count 192 (rank 21877)
(but var. Cramphorn: count 349; rank 14985)
Stollery count 409  (rank 13179)

[pinefamily]

This thread is very interesting reading.
For the names I would be likely to do a study on:
Pine/Pyne  1234  ranking 5577/ 1993  ranking 3702  ( I have started extracting entries from the GRO indexes and the censuses)

Dowdeswell  988  ranking 6678 And Dowdswell  12  ranking 127230

Sando/Sandoe/Sandow  86  ranking 36388/ 100  ranking 33148/ 136  ranking 27252

All fairly manageable I think. The reason I would do any of these is the strong possibility of a common origin of each.

[jbml]

Just a thought.. does anyone know what the rarest name in GB is?

I'm more intrigued to complete the list of the top 20

So far I've got:

1.   Smith 652,563
2.   Jones 538,874
3.   Williams 380,379
4.   Taylor 306,296
5.   Brown 291,872
6.   Davies 279,647
7.   Evans 222,580
8.   Thomas 202,773
9.   Wilson 201,224
10. Johnson 193,260
11. Roberts 187,871
12. Robinson 165,193
13. Thompson 162,920
14. Wright 161,391
15. Walker 155,734
16. White 154,147
17. ?
18. ?
19. Green 145,856
20. Hall 145,231

But what are 17 and 18??

[jbml]

You wouldn't half have a strange game of chess if the number of pieces you had was proportionate to the surname occurrences, though.

There are:-

113,489 Kings
973 Queens
35,253 Bishops
61,693 Knights
8,763 Castles, along with 2,129 Rooks

But no Pawns at all (nor Prawns, nor Shrimps, nor Porns)

I did, however, find 5 Serfs.

And ... since they have not counted names with fewer than 5 occurrences ... that makes Serf one of the (equal) rarest rated names.

[DavidG02]

NAME        No:    Rank
GIBBINS   4555  1758
GIBBONS   19374  384

Both mid range I guess

MUNN   3263  2393
HATHERELL   236  =19157
HATHERILL   112  =30847
HADDRELL   590  =9979
HATHRILL   26  =76659

BLACKSELL   50  =50807   yet do this for Australia and it would rise to over 200

Just a few of mine

[DavidG02]

Just a thought.. does anyone know what the rarest name in GB is?

I'm more intrigued to complete the list of the top 20

So far I've got:

1.   Smith 652,563
2.   Jones 538,874
3.   Williams 380,379
4.   Taylor 306,296
5.   Brown 291,872
6.   Davies 279,647
7.   Evans 222,580
8.   Thomas 202,773
9.   Wilson 201,224
10. Johnson 193,260
11. Roberts 187,871
12. Robinson 165,193
13. Thompson 162,920
14. Wright 161,391
15. Walker 155,734
16. White 154,147
17. ?
18. ?
19. Green 145,856
20. Hall 145,231

But what are 17 and 18??

Would it be something like Johnston?

And how changed is it with names like Patel , Coetzee and Khan , Singh etc