Poll: How unique is your surname?

[DracheLehre]

My name is pretty rare... and monosyllabic

 

[Greaselburger]

Mulders, never met anyone with the same last name outside my family. Apparantly its quite common in holland

 

[Darth Pope]

Pretty sure I'm the only Ellerbe on the Escapist.

 

[soladrin]

My last name is quite rare. Its meaning is pretty awesome too. Its Dutch for "Bull in a House".

We're known for being klutz's.

Stier in het huis? riiiight

Close, Bolhuis

that doesnt translate to bull in a house, that translates to round house.

 

[sanomaton]

I'm a proud Pieskä. Bet there isn't a Pieskä around where you guys live! (There are only about 400 Pieskäs in the whole world )

 

[Tartarga]

Mine is Starr. I would love to meet another person with that name, then we could discuss all the stupid jokes people have made about it.

 

[mikey300]

not very

 

[chstens]

Only about 30-something people in Norway has Stenseth as their surname.

 

[Andalusa]

I've never met anyone outside my family with the same surname as me, but I know they're out there.

...Waiting.

 

[thenoblitt]

mines noblitt so yeah its pretty unique

 

[high_castle]

My surname doesn't actually exist in its country of origin. See, when my great-grandfather came over to Ellis Island, the guys taking the register couldn't understand what he said, butchered the name and basically invented their own name. There's a small handful of people outside my family who have it too, but very small. So yeah, the name's unique.

 

[faceless chick]

So far there have been 2 cases of mass fraud and money dealership that I know of involving people that have my surname.

Fairly common, but never in the good sense.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

in my country, fairly common, it means Lion in spanish, though in my case I do have a coat of arms (well my family does) which is cool

 

[Inverse Skies]

Davis? Very common. Not that I mind to be honest, at least it's easy to spell.

 

[FightThePower]

It's dull as fuck, and fairly common.

 

[rdaleric]

mines Philbin, which is not very common round my way, but is irish so will be a few about!

EDIT just checked on a british surname website, 15 Philbins per million people in the UK!

 

[anaphysik]

Not common, but not terribly uncommon (and it's more common back in Scotland).

 

[Caligulove]

Oen-Brodin.
One of those fancy forged names from the parents

 

[Nozer]

Norris. Quite rare where I am. And no im not related to Chuck.

 

[MelziGurl]

Mine's Turner, it is quite common. It was also quite annoying in primary school to be asked if I was related to Tina Turner...