NationStates Jolt Archive

Ever wondered?
Well, now you can find out! (If you're British)
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

Surname profiler - shows you were the most common places in England (also Oz, NZ and USA) your surname is, in 1881 and 1998, it's frequency, geographic location, even the % of people who have more rural names and % with a higher status name (based on income).

My Dad's name is most common in Bay of Plenty, NZ (where he grew up). It's a pretty common name, ranked 34th and with 2375 names in 1 million being a Moore.
My Mum's maiden name (Southby) is pretty uncommon even in England, where it's ranked 12987th (:eek:), with only 8 names in 1 million being a Southby. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly found in NZ in Marlborough, where her parents retired to. Most commonly found in England in (surprise surprise) Southall.
In NZ, apparently there's only 5.25 Southbys p/million, which makes 22 Southbys in the entire country. Seeing how I've got 7 Aunts and 1 Uncle on that side, I guess most, if not all, of them are related to me.


Pointless, yet interesting.

Edit:
For you Americans out there, try this one:
http://www.gens-us.net/
And you Italians, this one:
http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/

Cheers to Forum Cornelii & Cape Isles for that.

my surname (collier) most common in wigan in both 1881 and 1998 which makes sense cuz that's where my dad's from. mosaic type: sepia memories (:confused:). couldn't make head nor tail of the numbers tho so i'll just assume they meant something good and or interesting :D . my mum's maiden name (norman) bears no relation to her supposed heritage with it's top area being taunton. i like the top postal town tho, 'watchet' sounds funny. mosaic type: retirement bungalow.

OK, mine seems to make me out to be a retired cow.

Top location 1998 - Hereford
Highest indexed Mosaic type - Retirement Bungalow.

Then I tried my wife's name:
There were no results found for your selection. There needed to be at least 100 people with the name on the Electoral Register in 1998 to be in the database. We are hoping to add these missing names at a later date.

:eek:

My surname, Stillwell, had 463 people in 1881 and 674 in 1998. It was ranked 7170 in 1881 and 7084 in 1998 with 98.83% being from England, 0.65% from Ireland, 0.13% from Greece and 0.26% being Hispanic. I assume the last two were people married into the family because Stillwell doesn't seem very Greek or Hispanic o_o. Most popular in Guildford in 1881 and East Central London in 1998. The most popular town is Windlesham.

And now for my mum's maiden name, Harper. Tonnes of them, 19176 in 1881 and 25688 in 1998, ranked 198 in 1881 and 196 in 1998. There's a wee slice of Harper in every ethnicity shown except Hungarian. The top area in 1881 was Lerwick and in 1998 Kirkwall, and the top town is Shetland.

Mom is a Hutchinson. The family is McDonald.

Great Britain Frequency (1998) 24994 100
Great Britain Frequency (1881) 16969
Great Britain Rate (1998) 598
Great Britain Rate (1881) 627
Northern Ireland 1473.49 237.3
Republic of Ireland 31.13 5.0
Australia 554.46 89.3
New Zealand 453.05 73.0
United States 327.08 52.7
Canada 463.89 74.7

Granddad is from Poland and his name didn't show up.

My name was made up when he hit the shore so it is very unique. Guess they couldn't pronounce the original. ;)

Highest indexed Mosaic type - Retirement Bungalow.


Heh, we Stillwells are categorised as "in military quarters." Mum's family, the Harpers, are "greenbelt guardians." Both of these amuse me because Daddy's father was the owner of a rocket parts company that had contracts with the US military and mum's family owns a cow farm. Whee, we decided to be slaves to the names!

what does the highest indexed mosaic type mean? mine says sepia memories. my name is a faded old brown photo?

Oh, dear. It seems I'd be Welsh.

My surname (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fung) :eek:

Nothin'. Not listed.

what does the highest indexed mosaic type mean? mine says sepia memories. my name is a faded old brown photo?

There is a link on the results page that explains mosaic types.

It is a complex form of class category it seems.

Nothing for mine.:(

Using the old spelling there's a lot of people in Northern Ireland...where the town of the same name is. Not suprising.

EDIT: With the old spelling I'm 32 in a million...

No results! Hell yeah!

Only countries outside of the US I know the geography of worth a damn outside of where on the globe they are are Australia and Canada, so I have no clue what these places are, but here's where it says the name Dale is common -

http://cetl1.geog.ucl.ac.uk/output/GBnames_CETL123361672954008.png

Name of the ruler of Cockstein is not common at all. Unlike most of yours, commoners.



:headbang:

Mine's not listed... doesn't surprise me much. When my grandfather started to put together a family tree, he found out that the name is unique to our own family in Germany.

Nothing shows up for my name, as expected.

There are only a half dozen people in the U.S. with my name, and one of them lived near me for a while, although I never met him.. I know because I mistakenly got some of his mail.. confused the hell out of me at the time. :p

eww...I just checked out what the Mosiac type means for both surnames (Dad's and Mum's).
Dad's comes under the title 'Low Horizons'
Whereas Mum's is "White Van'
Both pretty self-explanatory.
Thank God my great-great-grandparents emigrated. With mosaics like those, I would have been destined to become a chav!! (*screams*)

Name or Category: LAVELLE (1881) (http://cetl1.geog.ucl.ac.uk/output/GBnames_CETL123361672958606.png)

Name or Category: LAVELLE (1998) (http://cetl1.geog.ucl.ac.uk/output/GBnames_CETL123361672958316.png)

Ireland.

*nods*

Something similar is also available for Germany (http://christoph.stoepel.net/Geogen.aspx). For all you Germans here :D

And for my surname:
Relative frequency. (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d77/baranxi/All%20About%20ME/surname01.png)
Absolute frequency. (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d77/baranxi/All%20About%20ME/surname02.png)

Ever wondered?
Well, now you can find out! (If you're British)
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

Surname profiler - shows you were the most common places in England (also Oz, NZ and USA) your surname is, in 1881 and 1998, it's frequency, geographic location, even the % of people who have more rural names and % with a higher status name (based on income).

My Dad's name is most common in Bay of Plenty, NZ (where he grew up). It's a pretty common name, ranked 34th and with 2375 names in 1 million being a Moore.
My Mum's maiden name (Southby) is pretty uncommon even in England, where it's ranked 12987th (:eek:), with only 8 names in 1 million being a Southby. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly found in NZ in Marlborough, where her parents retired to. Most commonly found in England in (surprise surprise) Southall.
In NZ, apparently there's only 5.25 Southbys p/million, which makes 22 Southbys in the entire country. Seeing how I've got 7 Aunts and 1 Uncle on that side, I guess most, if not all, of them are related to me.


Pointless, yet interesting.
Ha ha i think there are only 8 Harle's at the most in NZ

I'm all about the isle of skye.

Statistics (http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Statistics.aspx?name=HARLE&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name)
International Comparisons (http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Comparisons.aspx?name=HARLE&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name)
1998 Map (http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map.aspx?name=HARLE&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name)
1881 Map (http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map2.aspx?name=HARLE&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name)
I LOVE NEWCASTLE!!!!

Old People in Flats.:cool:
I don't know of anyone in the Hawkes Bay. *shift eyes*

I'm a rarity indead. There aren't enough Gaddi (Gaddis in singular) for the name to appear on either a 1998 0r 1881 search.

My last name isn't on there. Surprise, surprise, not too many Wennerström-family members in Britain... Nor in Sweden, for that matter.

JONES Celtic; Welsh; Name of Parent Ending in -S

its interesting that on the map, obviously its mostly concentrated in and around Wales (especially the north - i didn't expect a divide like that), but its kinda cool there's a gap and then higher concentration pretty much where i live in hampshire.


Frequency 1998: 391,909
Rank 1998: 2 (woo! i'm common!!)
Occurrences per million names 1998: 10,521

Ethnicity of forename: British or unknown 99.23%

Mosaic type with highest index # Upland Hill Farmers (hahaha the very last category in the list (http://www.business-strategies.co.uk/DownloadFile.asp?FileID=258&Save=1) :p :()
% of people with a more rural name 8
% of people with a more high-status name 44

Great Britain top area (1998): Llandudno (woo! its a shithole :p my family is from Cardiff)
Great Britain top postal town: Blaenau Ffestiniog

Australia top state: Tasmania
New Zealand top province: Gisborne
United States top state: Mississippi

international comparison says the US is the next higest spread of jones'




me other name gives pretty much the same thing (more welshness)

and for the family name on my mum's side...
There were no results found for your selection. There needed to be at least 100 people with the name on the Electoral Register in 1998 to be in the database. We are hoping to add these missing names at a later date.

Interesting. Have to rush but I'll give it a bigger look later.

Well i live in between Bolton and Wigan and got these results.

My dad's surname of Chadwick brought this up:
International Comparisons Rate As % of GB rate in 1998
Great Britain Frequency (1998) 13443 100
Great Britain Frequency (1881) 13094
Great Britain Rate (1998) 343
Great Britain Rate (1881) 484

Geographical Spread Geographical Spread Statistics
Great Britain top area (1881) Oldham
Great Britain top area (1998) Bolton
Great Britain top area index * 752

Looks like i'm well common at least in Bolton where we live!

And my mum's side makes me even more common in my area. Higham, from Wigan
International Comparisons Rate As % of GB rate in 1998
Great Britain Frequency (1998) 4336 100
Great Britain Frequency (1881) 3061
Great Britain Rate (1998) 113
Great Britain Rate (1881) 113
Geographical Spread Geographical Spread Statistics
Great Britain top area (1881) Wigan
Great Britain top area (1998) Wigan
Great Britain top area index * 1489
Great Britain top postal town Wigan

Wow.
New Zealand top province Taranaki
That's where my Grandparents are from.

Huh, no results for my actual name anywhere. Weird. Other common spellings are everywhere, although quite popular around the cotswolds, nearer the village from which the name is derived.

"There were no results found for your selection. There needed to be at least 100 people with the name on the Electoral Register in 1998 to be in the database. We are hoping to add these missing names at a later date."

Ha! :D

I'm confused.. where are you people getting the information? I only saw the maps :(

I'm confused.. where are you people getting the information? I only saw the maps :(
Just click on the Geographical location and Frequency and Ethnicity tabs.

Frequency 1881 1998 Change
Frequency 683 890 +207
Rank Order 5469 5711 -242
Occurrences per million names 25 24 -1

Mosaic type with highest index # Semi-Rural Seclusion

% of people with a more rural name 2

% of people with a more high-status name 28

My surname is mostly found in Leeds, Bradford and preston areas

Crap it doesn't work.

Category of surname Celtic; Irish; Unclassified
Mosaic type with highest index # Sharing a Staircase
Index of top Mosaic type * 488
% of people with a more rural name 90
% of people with a more high-status name 93
Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic categories of surname British, Irish

Great Britain top area (1881) Liverpool
Great Britain top area (1998) Paisley
Great Britain top area index * 654
Great Britain top postal town Liverpool

United States top state North Dakota
United States top state index * 310

I know no one in North Dakota..

Frequency 233 1983 +1750
Rank Order 11435 2921 +8514

There..

Just click on the Geographical location and Frequency and Ethnicity tabs.
Ahh, thank you.

Ever wondered?
Well, now you can find out! (If you're British)


For Italian and USA people:

http://gens.labo.net/

Ciao!

For Italian and USA people:

http://gens.labo.net/

Ciao!

California, Florida, Oregon and the north-eastern US.

(http://www.gens-us.net/)

They really don't like my type in scotland, one day... One day the Hyde's will rule the world!

They really don't like my type in scotland, one day... One day the Hyde's will rule the world!

loads of Hyde's in the US

Mines not listed.

In the US, my surname is most common in Delaware. I've never even been to Delaware.

In the UK, it was most common in Carlisle in 1881 and in Motherwell in 1998. My Aussie cousins are concentrated in Tasmania and my Kiwi cousins are in Auckland. My "Mosaic type" is "Just Moving In", 69% of people have a more rural name, and a whopping 92% of people have a more high-status name. Good thing I don't give a damn about status.

My wife's surname is most common in North Carolina (unsurprising, since her family has lived in NC for almost 300 years), Derby in the UK, Northern Territory in Oz, and Taranaki in NZ.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/LAVELLE.gif

Mosaic type with highest index # Upland Hill Farmers
I can't help look at that mosaic type and think it says "UpHill Farmer", which is a less-than-savoury euphemism for a particular sexual act.

"There were no results found for your selection. There needed to be at least 100 people with the name on the Electoral Register in 1998 to be in the database. We are hoping to add these missing names at a later date."

Ha! :D


Me too!!!!!

*happydance*

Yay! Using the German one, I've got information on my Grandmum's family, the Behrends. It appears that since Great-grandpa Harold moved from Schleswig-Holstein back at the beginning of the last century, the family has moved down into Lower Saxony.

And a picture reference of how many Behrends live in the areas... (http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen_map.aspx?mode=abs)

Bloody 404...

Ever wondered?
Well, now you can find out! (If you're British)
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

Surname profiler - shows you were the most common places in England (also Oz, NZ and USA) your surname is, in 1881 and 1998, it's frequency, geographic location, even the % of people who have more rural names and % with a higher status name (based on income).

My Dad's name is most common in Bay of Plenty, NZ (where he grew up). It's a pretty common name, ranked 34th and with 2375 names in 1 million being a Moore.
My Mum's maiden name (Southby) is pretty uncommon even in England, where it's ranked 12987th (:eek:), with only 8 names in 1 million being a Southby. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly found in NZ in Marlborough, where her parents retired to. Most commonly found in England in (surprise surprise) Southall.
In NZ, apparently there's only 5.25 Southbys p/million, which makes 22 Southbys in the entire country. Seeing how I've got 7 Aunts and 1 Uncle on that side, I guess most, if not all, of them are related to me.


Pointless, yet interesting.

Edit:
For you Americans out there, try this one:
http://www.gens-us.net/
And you Italians, this one:
http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/

Cheers to Forum Cornelii & Cape Isles for that.


Interesting, my Asian surname is in there.

Interesting, my Asian surname is in there.
What's interesting is if you look at the 1881 map. I'll wager it won't be there. Shows how much mass migration there's been in the last 100 years or so.

WTF does '<' mean? Is it more or less than? Depending on each on, there are either more/less than 5000 people with my last name is Kalifornya, Texus, Minisoda, Wiskonsun, Misigin, Ilunoy, Pensulvaynya, Noo Joysi, Noo Yoyk, and Floriduh.