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No chance my family name will die out soon

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This handy tool compares the 5000 most common surnames in the US in 1990 and 2000. And Hispanic names are becoming more and more common (though nobody is going to challenge Smith any time soon).

My last name is surprisingly common, considering how many people mispronounce it. It’s moving up the ranks, from the 400 range to the 300 range. My siblings are doing their part on that score.

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12 thoughts on No chance my family name will die out soon

  2. Nor was mine. That doesn’t surprise me since I don’t know anyone who isn’t somehow related to me who has the same surname as me.

  3. I’m kind of surprised mine’s so high on there– number 1450. I don’t think I ever met someone with the same surname (although there is one celebrity who has it).

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  6. These kind of things always make me sad, b/c I can’t effectively make use of them (thanks to slavery and the renaming of slaves). It hit me really hard on a school trip to ellis island that the island had absolutely nothing for me and that it was planned that way.

  7. Wow….my surname is in the top 700 names. I bet, however, that the ranking would be higher if there weren’t differences on account of differing Chinese dialects and the way different American immigration officials chose to romanize our surnames in English.

  8. My name sounds like it would be common, being a boring very English name and all, but it’s not even on the list. My Kid’s name is though, near the top. Which is even more weird cause he’s got a warbly Norwegian name.

  10. Roxie, if you’re sufficiently interested, there are many organizations devoted to tracing genealogy for the descendants of former slaves. AfriGeneas is a pretty big one, but there are many others.

  12. Ha! I was born a Smith. I rule over all of you. My Smithy minions are still in control of the world! Mwooah-ha-ha!

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