Poll: How unique is your surname?

[Fronken]

I'd guess there are about 20-30 people with the same surname as me in the world, and those are my relatives, as it's a family name since ~1904, meaning no one else in sweden can change their last name to the same as mine without marrying into the family, and since it includes a letter only avaible in scandinavian languages (Ö), my guess is that no other family is using this particular surname, atleast i havent found any other family with my surname in any registery of population.

PS. Just because i have a very rare surname doesnt mean we're rich or anything, we're not "noble" or anything like that, just a random middle-class family who happens to have a family-name documented over 100 years ago.

EDIT: The surname in question is Gardsiö.

 

[z0nbie]

White... I think this is as un-unique as you can get

 

[Yokai]

Underwood. Fairly unique in the US, barring one obnoxious country singer who I want to punch...
People have it all over the place in the UK and Ireland though. My family's mostly Irish, so I suppose it makes sense.

 

[A Random Reader]

Anyone here know anyone by the name of "Boyes"?

The closest thing I have found was Boyd

 

[Summerstorm]

Fairly unique. I won't give my last name on the internet of course (Because you could pinpoint me with it... since it is that uncommon). But well... the name itself is listed in the index for phonenumber seven times for the whole german area. Two of that entries are my father and my sister.

One bad thing: it is bad (sounding) name. AND EVERYONE is getting it wrong, even though it is VERY simple. I get mail addressed wrong.. where i myself entered my name into a database. Someone has to go into that and say: oh i guess that is wrong; let me correct that for the poor fool who can't write his own name. Grml...

 

[Neonbob]

I think mine is pretty unique.
Hawk.

 

[Spaghetti]

Marshall. It's pretty common in Britain.

But apparently:
0.075% of last names in the US are MARSHALL!

Something I pulled of some website. Don't know whether it's true or not.

 

[iron codpiece]

My name surname is Anderson... it's pretty common and dull

My last name is Plentywounds. There is no one that has it that isn't directly related to me (more accurately my great grandfather) in some way.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

I dunno how common O'Connor is. If I lived in Ireland, I'm sure I'd vanish into the crowds, but I haven't met a lot of them here in America.

My name surname is Anderson... it's pretty common and dull

Hey, Anderson means "son of man." Be proud! Go read Ayn Rand and feel good about yourself.

 

[Godavari]

Well, one would think that "Strong" would be pretty common, but oddly I've never met someone with the same last name as me.

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

Mine's Brody, I've know quite a few but I think it's a very unique name.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Mine's Hanshaw. The only person I know of outside my family with that surname is a boxer named Anthony. So... my name's hard to find in America. In the U.K., I hear it's pretty common.

 

[setvak]

Mine's Haluza, which is pretty unique in my opinion, and hard to find. Although it's slightly less impressive when you realize that it's just Slovak for "branch".

 

[rampantcreature]

Mine is Czech for "pheasant". But I don't live near any other Czechs...I'd actually be amazed to ever run into someone with my last name, especially the proper Czech spelling.
[sub]Some of Czech hockey players in North America are named after birds as well. [/sub]

 

[T3h Merc]

Miller just SCREAMS common which is probably why I wear full suits and ties w/ a fedora and yell random quotes in public

"I AM THE GREETEST NOW I AM LEAVING FOR NO RAISIN!" (glee)

 

[Flunk]

I live in Canada and have a fairly uncommon Scottish last name (no it doesn't include Mac) but if I lived in Scotland I wouldn't be able to swing a cat without hitting 10 other people with the same name.

 

[E-mantheseeker]

Mine is Belaston, I doubt I'll ever meet someone else with it. I don't know if it has any meaning behind it, but I know it's French.

Also: I can't decide if I prefer to pronounce it as sounding like "blastin'" or "Bella-stone" I find that slightly interesting myself.

 

[Starke]

Schwarz. It's the german word for black, so, its fairly common in germany/austria. Less so here. The mangled versions like Schwartz, are more common here in the states.