How many times does your last name appear in the NYC directory?

[yvr girl]

http://www.411.com/

For me - zero.

[Dookus]

1. Too many results

it couldn't even display 'em.

[tammywammy]

45. Same here

I have a very common last name...the 3rd most common I think.

[GOPisEvil]

2. 24, including two with my first name.

[notadmblnd]

7. just one

and she is 80 years old.

[sparky_in_ma]

3. My search

"returned too many results"

[JohnKleeb]

4. I put in New York, New York and got one

[progmom]

5. once

that's my married surname.

my "maiden" name? 87 times.

[yvr girl]

13. I tried my mom's maiden name and

it returned zero results too

[progmom]

47. you really are an enigma!!

:scared:

[flamingyouth]

6. 17 times, and according to that I actually live at...

200 W 16th St :D

[mopinko]

8. 85

[Maddy McCall]

9. Ten.

[KitchenWitch]

10. zero

My maiden name is in there too many times to calculate.

[Goathead]

11. This many

Your search returned too many results.

[katinmn]

12. 166!

Interesting, since there's hardly any with my last name here.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. 23.

According to this site: http://www.hamrick.com/names/ (distribution of surnames in the US by frequency among the population), my surname is not very common (from one in 2500 to one in 10,000, depending on the state).

[RagingInMiami]

21. That's a very cool website

[yvr girl]

30. My last name didn't appear in that site

An alternate spelling did appear, but it wasn't common. 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10,000

My mom's maiden name wasn't in the database either.

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. Hmmm...interesting

is your surname French, or Anglo-Saxon?

[yvr girl]

37. My surname is English

My mom's maiden name is Italian

[RagingInMiami]

41. A few of my friend's last names did not appear either

They have some rare south american surnames.

[RagingInMiami]

15. This is what I got

Your search returned too many results.
Try refining your search by providing a first initial,

[Huckebein the Raven]

16. None in New York City but two statewide

[LeftyMom]

17. 87

Here on the west coast, my family name is fairly obscure. My town has three listings for my last name (there should be at least two more but my family's unlisted.) Different patterns of immigration, I guess.

[AlCzervik]

18. 259 times

[mark414]

19. 147 with my first AND last name

meh?

all those dirty micks in NYC

[JohnKleeb]

20. I thought you were a kraut mick

Just like my dad :). I wish I had an Irish last name.

[mark414]

22. yep

did you know that at one point, milwaukee had more german people than any other city in the world besides berlin?

[JohnKleeb]

24. jesus lol

I bet at one point Boston had more Irish the most Irish after Dublin. I am a Kraut Mick Hunkie, the eastern european is from my mom's side, not a single drop of bland anglo saxonisn in me.

[RagingInMiami]

44. Well hell guys

Do you know that Miami currently has more Cubans that Cuba?

[Spider Jerusalem]

29. Could be worse...heh...

you could have an ENGLISH last name (I do...lol)

[yvr girl]

32. I have an ENGLISH last name

zero results.

[Spider Jerusalem]

36. Possibly a variant that appeared AFTER...

the main wave of English colonisation of the US (my family emigrated to the colonies in the mid-17th century).

[yvr girl]

39. Technically, my family emigrated to Canada

It's not a common name with either spelling. I've only met one family with my last name that wasn't related to me.

I don't know how common my mom's maiden name is, but I've never met a non-relative who had it.

[Spider Jerusalem]

40. Yeah...

I assumed your family emigrated to Canada, but I just assumed the variant spelling would've come about after English colonisation of what's now the US eastern seaboard and before they emigrated.

[yvr girl]

43. The variant spelling was in the database

but it wasn't common either. My family only came to Canada after WWI.

[Spider Jerusalem]

46. That explains it, then...

those who emigrated before the 1800's tended to live near coasts, and since a lot of early immigrants were illiterate, their surnames got altered (sometimes unrecognisably)...

[yvr girl]

48. It's strange that both my mom and dad's names

wouldn't be listed. What are the odds?

[Spider Jerusalem]

49. The odds actually favour it...

more surnames in use worldwide than there are unique surnames in NYC (or the USA, for that matter)...

[yvr girl]

51. It's just that my names don't seem really out there

to me

[pnorman]

23. 97 for me.

That's a great website. I'll bookmark it.

ZERO?? That's hard to imagine in a city like New York. Have you ever considered moving there, just to jazz up its telephone directory?

pnorman

[xmas74]

25. 36

[Longgrain]

26. Too many results for me too, I guess my last name is just too common.

Like me.:)

[PBR me]

27. 5

[mark414]

28. dude

i knew you were from wisconsin before i even clicked on your profile

what a great fuckin name, welcome to DU

[graywarrior]

31. hm-m-m-m-m

I may have located my missing brother

[yvr girl]

55. Are you going to verify

that fact?

[graywarrior]

57. I'm too cheap to pay for the service that will get me the info

My brother vanishes every few years.

[fishwax]

34. none for me either

[On the Road]

35. Just Once

and ironic considering that my direct male ancestor was the first mayor of New York. At least according to the geneaology book.

[Nicole]

38. 31

[RetroLounge]

42. "Your search returned too many results"

Hmmm

RL

[CO Liberal]

50. One Guy In Flushing

Since my surname is relatively rare, I wonder if we're related....

[Skittles]

52. zero

none in the entire state I live in either (Texas)

[yvr girl]

54. Are listed in your phone book?

[Skittles]

58. nope

:)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

53. Zero...But there are 8 in NY state.

[fishnfla]

56. Holy fucking shit, I just saw my life's history

like, wow

[MrScorpio]

59. 29, None with my first name

Because it's very unique

[Lavender Brown]

60. Just once

:)

[auntAgonist]

61. Eleven

[sakabatou]

62. My last name: Your search returned too many results.

With my first name... 46.