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	Most Common Surnames [Last Names] in the United States (top 1000)
		Most Common Surnames [Last Names] in the United States (top 1000)
		Most Common Surnames in the U.S. The following tables include all surnames with over 0.001% frequency in the US population during the 1990 census.
		The table below includes the 1000 most common last names in America.
	names.mongabay.com /most_common_surnames.htm (58 words)

	List of most common surnames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Most of Brazilian surnames derive from Portuguese surnames.
		Most of the names of this list refer to the living place of the first holder of the name.
		Most of the names of this list refer to the occupation of the first holder of the name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames (2837 words)

	Radzilow Surname Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Comprehensive list of all surnames taken from various incorporation papers in N.Y. from 1887 to 1906, including the merger of the two congregations in 1906, as well as from inscriptions on the Beth David Cemetery Arch.
		Comprehensive list of all surnames taken from various membership activities of the congregation in the 1950's and 1960's.
		Lists of surnames and occupations of the town's residents
	www.radzilow.com /surnames.htm (390 words)

	ipedia.com: List of most popular family names Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Most of Brazilian surnames refer to poor colonists and convicts who were the first immigrants into the nation, in 16th century.
		The most common names in Sweden are originally patronymic, which means that the son of e.g.
		Even though these "son-names" are the most common names in Sweden, a majority of the Swedes have other family names such as Lindberg (linden/lime mountain), Sjöman (Seaman) and Nyman (Newman), but because of the greater diversity of these names each specific name is less common than most "son-names".
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_most_popular_family_names.html (1014 words)

	Surnames--Family Tree Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Surnames derived from occupations figure prominently on the list of America's most common surnames, including Smith, Miller, Taylor, Clark, Walker, Wright, Baker, Carter, Stewart, Turner, Parker, Cook and Cooper.
		Surnames sprang from place names in several ways: when someone was associated with or living near or by a particular hill, brook, bush, dale, valley, island, bridge, meadow, road or village; when the person was known as coming from a particular locality; and when the individual owned a manor or village.
		Place-derived surnames dominate in England and they're common in Germany and France.
	www.familytreemagazine.com /articles/dec00/surnames.html (462 words)

	Krasovskyj
		These most popular Lemko surnames in the 18th Century prove without a doubt the connection of the population on the northern slopes of the Carpathians with Ukrainians.
		The surnames in Lemkivshchyna as in other regions of Ukraine were formed by various individual identifying characteristics, especially by original occupation, by outward appearance, by individual character traits, by the name of the place where one lived, by territorial and national origin, and by other characteristic naming traits.
		Besides surnames formed on the basis of first names among Lemkos in the 18th century, there were also numerous surnames based on specific characterizations of people on the basis of their family occupations or professions.
	members.tripod.com /warholic/krasovskyj.htm (4152 words)

	MyDanishRoots.com :: Genealogy and Family History in Denmark / Danmark - The 100 most common surnames in Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Of the following 100 surnames, as many as 64 derive from the patronymic naming tradition (names ending with "-sen"), 23 from nicknames, 9 from topographic features, and 2 from an occupation.
		The 15 most common names account for as many as 40 percent of the Danish population - all of them of patronymic origin - and all top 100 surnames account for as many as 57,22% of all Danes.
		Over the years the top surnames have remained consistent and there has only been little change in the distribution of the more common surnames in the Danish population.
	www.mydanishroots.com /surnames/100_most_common_surnames.html (730 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of most common surnames
		Most of the names of this list refer to the living place of the first holder of the name.
		Most of the names of this list refer to the occupation of the first holder of the name.
		The most common names in Sweden are originally patronymic, which means that the son of e.g.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames (2406 words)

	Bradley coat of arms
		Dealing with the Ulster families first, the spelling "Beatty" is most commonly found in counties Armagh and Tyrone while "Beattie" is the preferred form in counties Antrim and Down.
		While most modern histories of the Scottish family so called dismiss them as a minor member of the Clan MacBeth, in fact it is more likely that they were ultimately not of Scottish, but of Saxon English origin.
		They are especially strong in Fermanagh where the name was ranked fifteenth in the list of most common surnames in that county in 1962.
	www.araltas.com /features/beatty (1261 words)

	Surnames by Country - A Selected List of References about Personal Names: - Local History & Genealogy Reading Room ...
		Lists surnames, given names, year recorded, and referencesto list where name was recorded.
		Spanish personal names in the USA are listed with a brief discussion and a plain list of surnames.
		The surnames of Oxfordshire / by Richard McKinley ; with a foreword by Marc Fitch.
	www.loc.gov /rr/genealogy/bib_guid/surnames-country.html (2731 words)

	magoo.com: McGoughs, McGeoughs and McGeoghs in County Monaghan—Introduction by Hugh McGough
		Patrick McGeough and Mary Russell are listed by the IGI as the parents of Mary McGeough born in "Monaghan, Ireland" on December 28, 1873; and Owen McGeough born in Ireland on February 5, 1872.
		Thomas McGeough and Eliza Daley are listed by the IGI as the parents of Owen McGeough born in Monaghan, Ireland, on August 30, 1873.
		The most common "mac" surnames of enlistees from county Monaghan were McCabe and McKenna, with a good number of McGuinesses and McMahons (with a greater number of McMahons from county Clare).
	www.magoo.com /hugh/monaghan.html (1984 words)

	Genealogy of a Country Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Moloney ranks 154 in the list of most common Irish Surnames, its origins are in the Territory of Thomond, which covered county Clare, and adjacent parts of counties Tipperary and Limerick.
		It is common for farmers to keep a mare for the purpose to breed foals hoping one day to strike it rich with a famous racehorse of their own.
		It was a common sight to see dead people at the side of roads who died from starvation or one of its associated diseases: typhus, dysentery and scurvy.
	www.henneberry.org /henebry/book2.htm (5932 words)

	Family Crests / Coat of Arms Availability
		Here is a partial list of the coat of arms / family crests available.
		Tartan List (for coat of arms / family crest / clan crest / tartans)
		Surnames of north eastern england (coat of arms / family crest)
	www.4crests.com /gensym-21.html (978 words)

	The 50 Most Common Surnames in Lamerton Parish
		The 50 Most Common Surnames in Lamerton Parish
		This list shows my "standardized form" of the name, which does not imply that it's the most common spelling used..
		The number attached to each name, is the number of legible baptisms that occurred in Lamerton that were of that surname, plus the number that had illegible surnames, that I've extrapolated from other data to be "most likely" that surname.
	www3.sympatico.ca /yourhomedecor/50mostcommon.html (238 words)

	Black - Cleveland/Rutherford/Old Tryon
		However, most Blacks trace their origins to the British Isles where Black is relatively common as a surname.
		It is somewhat less common in England, primarily confined to the Northern Ireland counties in Ireland, and virtually non-existent in Wales.
		George Fraser Black, former director of the New York Public Library and author of "Surnames of Scotland," said the Black surname was common in St. Andrews and Prestwick, Scotland, in the 15th and 16th centuries and was very common in Edinburgh in the 17th century.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/blackfamily (1917 words)

	C Surnames Genealogy Society
		Parents with surnames A to L are required for duty this week.
		Graduates with surnames beginning in C and D were supposed to be given priority.
		Primary aim is to discuss roots and determine whether a common lineage is shared.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Genealogy/Surnames/C (3672 words)

	Nguyen, Kim Top AA Surnames \| Asian American Demographics \| GoldSea
		It comes as little surprise that the most common surname in the U.S. (as of the 1990 census) was Smith, claiming 1.006% of the population, followed by Johnson (.810%), Williams (.699%), Jones (.0621%), Brown (.621%), Davis (.480%), Miller (.424%), Wilson (.339%), Moore (.312%) and in 10th place, Taylor (.311%).
		Given the fact that among Coreans Lee is nearly as common as Kim, and that quite a few Chinese use that spelling, the Asian Lee well might have figured ahead of Kim and Nguyen.
		The third most common Asian surname among the U.S. population is Tran, another Vietnamese name, at 476, claiming.024% of the U.S. population, well ahead of whitebread names like Horn (number 581), Conway (654), Nixon (661), Weiss (662) and Ellison (664).
	goldsea.com /AAD/surnames.html (420 words)

	Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Next to each surname will be at least one code; each code representing a database in which the surname, as spelled, appears.
		The third most common Jewish surname in the United States (after Cohen and Levy) is Miller.
		The fact that the surname McGraw appears in a Jewish burial database means someone named McGraw is buried in a Jewish cemetery.
	www.avotaynu.com /csi/csi-home.html (1082 words)

	List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of the top 100 most common Chinese surnames according to a study published in 2006.
		Other common transliterations, used before the formalization and popularization of existing Romanizations, still can be found in the names of some overseas Chinese.
		Common transliterations in other Chinese languages (dialects) used by some overseas Chinese whose ancestral mother tongue is neither Mandarin, Cantonese or Minnan also exist, as well as pronunciations in other languages, particularly Korean and Vietnamese, in which these surnames are commonly used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames (321 words)

	indexpbmona
		His double surname of Elliott Drake he assumed by licence on succeeding to the estate, in compliance with the settlement of Sir Francis Henry Drake, on whose death, in 1794, the baronetcy subsequently created in favour of Sir Trayton, became extinct.
		Most importantly - which is one of the great values of early memorials everywhere - it also records his age, not given in the Register entry.
		Most of this, approx 300 acres, was owned by John Hornbrook Gill, but approx 100 acres was owned jointly by Gill, Sir George P Adams (another Elford trustee) and Grace C Elford.
	www.dartmoorpress.clara.net /indexpbmona.html (6100 words)

	DaVinci: Society> Genealogy> Surnames> C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Includes related surnames as well as transcripts of interviews and articles.
		Includes list of famous relatives, family tree, coat of arms, and photographs.
		- List of surnames most prominently Clevenger and Collins.
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Society/Genealogy/Surnames/C (3672 words)

	NEA: Phone Book Math
		Surname Survey: A study of data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals the most common family last names in the United States.
		According to geneologyspot.com, the most common surnames in the United States are, in order of their frequency, Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, and Brown.
		Lead them to the conclusion that the easiest way to estimate is to count the number of listings in one column on a page, then add or multiply the number of listings in one column by the number of columns on the page.
	www.nea.org /lessons/2002/tt020618.html (3609 words)

	Common Surnames
		Jack O' Words — The name Jack is the most common first name found in English words.
		Common Name Phrases — Many first names have become part of the English language.
		On the whole, in two centuries, the most common names in the United States have not changed all that much. Smith is still the best name for signing into a hotel anonymously. Johnson has moved up a notch to second. And the top five at the turn of the 18
	www.jimwegryn.com /Names/CommonSurnames.htm (414 words)

	List of most popular family names - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		List of most popular family names - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 19:06, 13 January 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about List of most popular family names contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_most_popular_family_names (62 words)

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		Most of us have some concern about the potential for identity theft via electronic medical records.
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	Healy coat of arms Haly coat of arms
		The surname MacHale was also adopted by a Welsh family which settled in the barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo, in the thirteenth century: it derives from the forename Howell.
		Long the parish priest of Little Bray, he was a most convivial man, a renowned wit whose company was sought at the dining tables of the gentry in his Wicklow neighbourhood.
		During the sojourn of Milesius in Egypt, he employed the most ingenious and able persons among his people to be instructed in the several trades, arts, and sciences used in Egypt; in order to have them taught to the rest of his people on his return to Spain.
	www.araltas.com /features/healy (5325 words)

	Surnames
		Matheson’s Special Report on Surnames of Ireland shows surnames with five or more entries in the birth indexes of 1890, and the main counties in which they were found.
		Aimed at writers who need authentic names for their novels, it has lists of names and commentary on naming patterns from many times and places.
		The search engines listed as "free" to submitters are likely to be the best search engines for you to use since MANY people only list their genealogy sites with search engines that will accept the listing either free or because it is simply on the list of engines at submit.com.
	www.irishgenealogy.com /ireland/surnames.htm (734 words)

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