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 Post subject: How Popular is your Surname ?
PostPosted: 09 Jan 2012, 23:33 
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Just type your surname into the search box and you'll find some useful information. There are currently 32103 Morrisons in the UK. (common as muck) :D

http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/

This is not a joke, but I once heard that there were only two Millibands in the whole of the UK, David and Ed. I just typed it in and it came up with NO RESULTS, so it could be true. :|


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This kicked off with Ashers surname 'Bloodworth'. There are only 719 of them in the UK, so that makes his Clan rarer than Richt's clan. :D


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"Congratulations, you are a genuine rarity, at least in the UK. Maybe you should try to breed, to avoid the RAVILIOUS family becoming extinct! "

Amazing Julian. You should add your name to their Forum for research purposes. :D


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83177 of me in the UK

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Those 'Bunners' breed like rabbits. :lol:


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pa102aw wrote:
This kicked off with Ashers surname 'Bloodworth'. There are only 719 of them in the UK, so that makes his Clan rarer than Richt's clan. :D


:shock: :shock: :shock:

There are 719 Murfitts too :shock:

Only 232 in US and 157 in Oz


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pa102aw wrote:
This kicked off with Ashers surname 'Bloodworth'. There are only 719 of them in the UK, so that makes his Clan rarer than Richt's clan. :D


:shock: :shock: :shock:

There are 719 Murfitts too :shock:

Only 232 in US and 157 in Oz

Best dust off the babymaker & put a smile on Mrs Murfs face tonight :idea: :lol:


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96,061 for me

Really? You are the only si I've ever heard of.


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If one considers that the origins of surnames were usually very simplistic, falling into 7 types a la

Occupations
Archer, Bailey, Baker, Brewer, Butcher, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Collier, Cooper, Cook, Carpenter, Dyer, Faulkner, Fisher, Fletcher, Fowler, Fuller, Glover, Hayward, Hawkins, Head, Hunt or Hunter, Judge, Knight, Miller, Mason, Page, Palmer, Parker, Porter, Sawyer, Slater, Smith, Stringer, Taylor, Thatcher, Turner, Shoemaker, Walker, Weaver, Wood or Woodman and Wright (or variations such as Cartwright and Wainwright).

Personal characteristics
Short, Brown, Black, Whitehead, Young, Long, White
Geographical features e.g., Bridge, Camp, Hill, Bush, Lake, Lee, Wood, Holmes, Forest, Underwood, Hall, Brooks, Fields, Stone, Morley, Moore, Perry

Place names
Washington, Everingham, Burton, London, Leighton, Hamilton, Sutton, Flint, Laughton

Estate
For those descended from land-owners, the name of their holdings, castle, manor or estate, e.g. Ernle, Windsor, Staunton

Patronymics, matronymics or ancestral
often from a person's given name. e.g., from male name: Richardson, Stephenson, Jones (Welsh for John), Williams, Jackson, Wilson, Thompson, Benson, Johnson, Harris, Evans, Simpson, Willis, Fox, Davies, Reynolds, Adams, Dawson, Lewis, Rogers, Murphy, Nicholson, Robinson, Powell, Ferguson, Davis, Edwards, Hudson, Roberts, Harrison, Watson, or female names Molson (from Moll for Mary), Madison (from Maud), Emmott (from Emma), Marriott (from Mary) or from a clan name (for those of Scottish origin, e.g., MacDonald, Forbes, Henderson, Armstrong, Grant, Cameron, Stewart, Douglas, Crawford, Campbell, Hunter) with "Mac" Scottish Gaelic for son.[9]

Patronal from patronage
(Hickman meaning Hick's man, where Hick is a pet form of the name Richard) or strong ties of religion Kilpatrick (follower of Patrick) or Kilbride (follower of Bridget). (Kil may come from the Gaelic word 'Cill' which means Church. This would certainly support the claim that the surname is tied to the religion.)

Where did Hancock come in ? :wink: :lol:


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hancockjr wrote:
unc.si. wrote:
96,061 for me

Really? You are the only si I've ever heard of.


I don't know too many jr's either


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Middling for me but I liked the derivation:


From the Dutch kampen, to fight, or kamper, a champion.

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unc.si. wrote:
96,061 for me
Really? You are the only si I've ever heard of.
I don't know too many jr's either
I can think of loads of people with the surname jr. Ray Parker Jr, Robert Downey Jr...


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I also think that Churchill was the last white man to be called Winston. :D


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origin: Local) A district in Ayrshire, Scotland. The name signifies the dwelling of the chief or king, from the Saxon, cyning, Dutch, koning, a leader or chief, and ham, a house or town.

But I already knew that


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2 of us in the 1881 census :shock:


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Woolcock - not very popular in the sense that there are only 713 of us, popular in the sense that the ladies love a bit of cock.


Not made out of Wool I wouldn't have thought. :wink: .

This is not very accurate, it says there are no Kellard's either, even though 1881 seems to have quite a few spread out over the country too.


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