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 > >