Poll: How unique is your surname?

[Jark212]

Stuart of Bute, of Clan Stewart, outcast royalty...

 

[Spineyguy]

There are only 2 Elbourne households in my region, and both are in my family.

I'v no idea what it means, maybe someone could help me out. I know it was derived from 'Melbourne' back in the middle ages.

 

[Kimarous]

Gillespie.

Aside from the occassional question of "any relation to Dizzy Gillespie" and one really awkward incident where I shared a classroom with someone with the exact same name, I haven't run into anyone else with that name.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

My surname seems to be rather unique. The only individual (aside from those in my own family) of whom I know with the same name is an English pop singer.

I just did a search for my name on Wikipedia. With the exception of said English pop singer, the results were few and every one of them was Australian.

 

[ben---neb]

Mildred. Yeah, laugh it up it's a girl's name. And very unique. Aside from relatives I know no one with this name.

 

[dark707]

Bennett-Woolf, anyone got anything better?

 

[AplChild]

Deary....
I wish I was kidding

 

[Georgeman]

Tilkeridis. Something about foxy or craftsman or whatever. Fairly unique I have to say though I have met other people with that surname. People often confuse the way my name is written and some even confuse the way it's pronounced.

 

[dark707]

Tilkeridis. Something about a foxy or craftsman or whatever. Fairly unique I have to say though I have met other people with that surname. People often confuse the way my name is written and some even confuse the way it's pronounced.

damn, I just got beaten

 

[Nugma]

Unique. As in unique, only family in the world with it.

 

[j1-2themax]

I would say my name is very uncommon, but then I remember I knew a guy with the same last name waaaay back when..

A pain in the butt to spell/pronounce though. Letters don't usually work that way, let's leave it at that.

 

[paragon1]

I don't know anyone with my last name who isn't directly related to me.

 

[Matt-Sama]

Mine is Slade, decide for yourself. I'm not too sure.

 

[Furioso]

Furioso, Italian for Furious, might be common there but idk

 

[secretshadow90]

Davis. It's actually right below Smith on the most common last name list. I have considered changing my whole name as it is that common.

 

[disco freak 86]

mc ginley anyone ?

 

[Socius]

Well my last name is Knutssøn, and only 42 people in this world bear the honor of this name, my family that is. However there are tenthousands if not more whom bear the name Knutsen, we are the Originials anyhow.

 

[Lexodus]

Unique... for a surname. My name is Alexander Benjamin (and, scarily enough, I once went to school with a guy named Benjamin Alexander). Everyone confuses my surname for my first name and calls me Benjamin... to which I silently rage. Somebody please explain why the fuck, in a name made up of two first names, the second one given is more likely to be the first??? Why is Benjamin Alexander more probable than Alexander Benjamin????

EDIT: Apparently, as of 2000 my surname is 0.014%, or 1/7402 people in the US. Guess it's not that rare, but I've never met another Benjamin other than one of my relatives in the UK.


Also, my mother's maiden name was Turnsek, which Wolfram Alpha doesn't even know exists. Her father's Austrian, though, and it may be more common over there...

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Rountree

Sounds sexy don't it?

"McLovin? Doesn't even sound like a real name. Sounds like a sexy hamburger."