"Martin Bentley" <treemaker@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote..... > For information of Roy and anyone else who may be interested, the > Office of National Statistics did a surname survey in 2002 which > involved 54 million individuals in England and Wales. Out of those > 5> million, just 246 were named Ormondroyd, making it the 18,639th > most popular name,,,not exactly "oodles", but there you go.< THE latest version of the UK-Info CD (2003) which supposedly contains 60 million names has just 30 Stockdills on it, ie one in two million of the population. Where does that put us? Mind you, there are plenty of names with only ONE example! Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) SoG Executive & Director of Projects, FFHS Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith