do a surname search

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

you can search for surnames to see where in the uk they crop up most where they are most popular in other countrys , what ethnic and religious group has the your surname mostly ..

generally a very interesting site
I found most of my relative are in devon and cornwell which is true as my grandfathers family were coal miners there .

 

the most popular surname in uk is smith then jones is number two

 

The Delmars are dieing out... NooOoooooo

 

my surname is dieing out to, not as bad as the delmars poor things they are in a bad way ,we need to start a campaign to save them, and its such a nice surname too

 

Thanx for that, it's really interesting, I thought the Oakleys were dying out but seems not.

 

many of my friends dont believe edwards is welsh... im living in wales, and there are load sof us.... grr, i can prove it now!!!

 

Fairly accurate for me when I searched both my parents names.

 

Lol, apparently us Potters are meant to be upland hill farmers. RANDOM!

 

The clan McIlwraith be expanding

Fun tool...thanks for linkage

 

Who wants to adopt my family name, Delmar? Anyone... ?

 

Ideally you want someone who has a awful surname I think delmar is a great surname if I wasnt happy with my own would change my surname to delmar in a minute .

advertise delmar more post in the main forum suggesting people change their names to delmar , Im sure you could get thousands of new delmars by this method

 

I am of Pickering. In addition to Ross, Bohn, FitzPiers, and a number of other royal lineages. My biggest pride belongs in my direct lineage to Kenneth MacAlpine through William de Ross, son of Robert de Ros and
Isabela Huntington, daughter of William the Lion.

I am also decended from a bunch of ssons and dottiers, of my Orkney decent
and enough "ddllwwyynns" to own Cymru.

 

There's not many with my name in Scotland at all! Most of us are around the North West (where I am) and the South West.

 

iv never met anyone else with my surname!
~worboys~

 

Haha! that's really interesting and also weird that a high proportion of Africans have my unusual (1 in a million according to the website) celtic surname i always thought it was irish, apparently not completely. xxx

 

I Think my Family are the Only Rodzianko's...

 

Means someone in your ancestry had lots of slaves, most likely.

 

Wow looked up my surname (Herriot), since i have english/ scottish roots and sure as hell, its ther

 

There's none of my dad's - Hirschkop, although there're loads of possible spellings. I once found some on a site with the Ellis Island records of immigration to New York - it's a good site if you want to trace your relatives there, I'll try to find it. I there was one relative of my dad's living in London in 1900, anyone got any idea how I can track down his descendents?j

 

It's interesting to see the change from 1881 to 1998, and how the fmailies spread. My name, "Booth" started in the Lincolnshire/Lancashire area and has spread a lot through England, the exception being a county in Scotland, which hasn't spread at all it seems.