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November 22, 2007 |Permalink |Comments (6)
A Surname by any other Name
Try this cool web tool that tells you how common your last name is among all Americans.
"Thomas" is number 14...
How about your last name?
Love to see some rankings posted in the comments...
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Bees didn't make the top 5,000. If I had taken my husband's last name, it would have been Papson. That didn't make the top 5,000 either.
Bill, I don't know if you've posted this story about retirement destinations, but nonetheless, it's a good read: "Birds of a Feather" by Tim Neville, April 6, 2007 New York Times:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/travel/escapes/06retire.html
Bill, I don't know if you've posted this story about retirement destinations, but nonetheless, it's a good read: "Birds of a Feather" by Tim Neville, April 6, 2007 New York Times:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/travel/escapes/06retire.html
What fun. And now I’ve frittered away another web-filled hour with my laptop on my lap. Shapiro comes it at 1306. Avery, my husband’s last name, 775.
Scrolling through the list is entertaining. I noticed that Lewis and Clark are holding their own at 26 and 25, respectively, although they’re clearly slipping. Additional surname searching led me to a site (ancestry.com) that uses U.S. census information to show geographic distribution of names in 1840, 1880 and 1920. It’s interesting to follow the patterns of migration.
My husband has a high and lofty name - Willoughby Moulton Avery III. He comes from a long line of Averys - North Carolina Averys and Groton, Connecticut Averys. It’s the kind of family that has numerous leather-bound volumes of history, dating back at least to the Mayflower, I suppose. His sense of his own heritage was something new to me. He had a sense of belonging. I see why it’s called your "roots". My own parents set no stock in lineage. Fiercely independent, or maybe desirous of distancing themselves from their ancestry - Jew; German; Native American; who-knows-what-else. They weren’t the types to collect antiques.
When I was pregnant, my husband and I made a deal - if it was a girl baby, she got my last name; boy babies got his. We had girls. I reneged with Julia and she got Avery-Shapiro. Having experienced the folly of the baby with the hyphenated surname, I held firm with our second daughter and she’s simply Jerzy Avery Shapiro.
Julia’s best friend at college is named Cappy Shapiro. They’ve decided that perhaps they’ll marry so Julia can be Julia Avery-Shapiro Shapiro or, better yet, they’ll combine their last names into one, as so many hip young couples do, so she’ll be Julia Shapiro-Avery-Shapiro. They haven’t decided yet.
Number 60. We have gone down 6%. My maiden name wasn't common at all.
My wife had a really Dum name which, she says, is the only reason she married me so that she could get a better name. Little did she know that she would only make it into the top 1000. No, I didn't spell it incorrectly, Her name was Linda Dum and her initials were LSD. What's more, her aunt was Annie Reel Dum. But I would much rather be married to a great person with a Dum name than a dumb person with a great name.