Indeed a very interesting site, Lesley. I've come up No.1, as no doubt you would expect. By White Page listings here in Australia, we have a more than 2-to-1 margin over JONES, followed closely by BROWN. Evan Powell SMITH! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Powell" <lesleycpowell10@hotmail.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Incidence of surnames > Hi > > I have found this site very interesting - thank you for the link. My own > (married) surname came in 76th! > I also got some rankings of 'colour' surnames, eg Brown, Black, Green, etc. > Then I did some place names, eg London, Kent, Surrey, Essex, etc. The list > could be endless, but quite fun, especially if you like statistics. > Thanks again. > > Lesley > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> > To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 4:55 PM > Subject: Re: Incidence of surnames > > > > Hi Loraine: > > > > Luckily I kept the item regarding the incidence of surnames: it appeared > > on > > the "FREEBMD-DISCUSS" list in October 2004, sent in by Peter Norman, and > > read as follows: > > > > "A useful free site, which gives the current frequency of any surname in > > England & Wales is the based on ONS' database > > http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php > > > > Just enter the name and it tells you both current ranking and number of > > occurrences. > > > > The 10 most common are > > > > Surname Count Ranking > > SMITH 652563 1 > > JONES 538874 2 > > WILLIAMS 380379 3 > > TAYLOR 306296 4 > > BROWN 291872 5 > > DAVIES 279647 6 > > EVANS 222580 7 > > THOMAS 202773 8 > > WILSON 201224 9 > > JOHNSON 193260 10 > > > > > > Peter Norman" > > > > ______________________________ > > > > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > > Need to get a fast answer to your transcribing problems? Go to the > > Transcribers Knowledge Base at http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html > > > > ============================== > > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > > New content added every business day. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >