Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/where-s-your-name

Comment #1373

2008-09-27T21:40:07Z

I'm baffled that Sanchez doesn't even make it into the Spanish top ten, but Garcia handily displaces Sharma - but of course with my 1/4-1/40 mix-up Kim is back in the running and pretty much a shoo-in. There are only 26 countries - do an area search and then search for the top name, but I'm now with Porter and doubt that anything will beat Kim, Yi, and Pak...

Comment #1372

2008-09-27T21:32:02Z

Whoops, I mean a fourtieth. But even so, quite amazing, especially considering that wikipedia has a long, long list of frequent Indian names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames#India. Gupta comes close to Sharma, but Patel is way off.

Comment #1371

2008-09-27T21:21:23Z

Sharma is incredible! Almost a quarter! The odd thing is I don't remember even having heard that name.

According to this link, Porter's guess is good, but doesn't beat Sharma.

Comment #1370

2008-09-27T21:05:04Z

www.whitepages.com gives me 9 hits for "stuecklin" (of which most in Omaha, and spread over only 7 separate residences), and one hit for "stucklin" (in Bentonville, of all places). Just moving over there alone would make a significant statistical dent! (Oh, and parts per billion: every kid would be 3 ppb in the US.)

Comment #1369

2008-09-27T19:52:40Z

Time, my dear, time. If a Stücklin had come to the U.S. at the same time as your ancestor William Brewster did (1620), and he and each of his children each had four children, the current U.S. FPM would be about half the current rate in Switzerland.

Comment #1368

2008-09-27T17:48:15Z

Sorry Mom, but I'm not planning on having enough kids to effect parts per billion.

Comment #1367

2008-09-27T14:14:07Z

This seems to be a good place to mention that I wouldn't mind at all if Stücklin (however you spell it) ventures to establish a foothold in the U.S. :)

Comment #1366

2008-09-27T02:28:58Z

Suzuki in Japan is a lot: 12906.22.

By contrast, Wightman in the UK is 66.97, Stucklin in Switzerland is 8.31, Langdon in Australia is 135.27, Daley in Australia is 310.4, and Campbell in New Zealand is 2870.09. It's amazing how often names with origins in the UK have a higher FPM (frequency per million) in Australia and New Zealand.

Smith in Australia is 12254.2.

Porter thought a Korean surname would win hands down, but Korea is not part of the database.

The highest I've found so far is 24419.36 for Sharma in India.

Comment #1365

2008-09-26T21:44:23Z

Janet sent out the link without the source, so of course I rediscovered the umlaut schizophrenia all over again. My conclusion is that the Germans and the Swiss must somehow have recorded the Umlauts differently, because Germany is abundantly populated with Muellers, while Switzerland teems with Mullers. In reality, there is no such disparity, and both countries boast a sizable population of Müllers.

The highest FPM I found was for Suzuki in Japan. Who can find more?