Ulukai on 12/1/2009 at 21:08
Don't be hatin', it's true! 46.6 per Million in fact.
Inline Image:
http://www.zen80200.zen.co.uk/cocks.jpgI booked marked the (
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx) World Names Profiler site long ago, but at the time it couldn't cope with all the hits it was getting.
Because statistics are fun when you've got nothing better to do with five minutes, who's got the most/least popular surname then?
My surname is most popular in Switzerland, with 142.46 / Million. My country of birth (UK), shows a frequency of 40.93 / Million. So, I'm quite a rarity.
(For comparison,
Smith is something like 12,000 / Million)
Trance on 12/1/2009 at 21:13
Forenames more common with my surname are Peter, Thomas, Wolfgang, Michael and Klaus.
I wouldn't mind changing my name to Wolfgang. Bet nobody would mess with me then.
Fringe on 12/1/2009 at 21:21
Well, after Scots moved there, Cocks-per-capita had to rise sharply, didn't it?
Fingernail on 12/1/2009 at 21:28
my name is big in the UK, and MI, US.
However my grandma's german (well, east prussian) name is incredibly rare and confined to poland these days, it seems.
demagogue on 12/1/2009 at 21:44
It lets you search by locality ... traced my family name right back to the area around Burmingham, West Midlands, I suppose its ancestral epicenter.
Renzatic on 12/1/2009 at 22:27
Surprisingly, despite my last name being of Scottish descent, more people are sporting it in Australia/New Zealand than anywhere else.
I guess dad was right. All my ancestors were limey foreigner jewel thieves.
RavynousHunter on 12/1/2009 at 22:33
I also found that there's more Fruits in France than anywhere else. Surprised? I wasn't. :laff:
demagogue on 12/1/2009 at 22:51
France has an overwhelming number of 'Bastard's too.
Denmark just beats it out with its 'Bitch's though.
And somebody in the UK is a Dickhead.
Now I've completely degenerated into a 4th grade mentality, entering these stupid names... :p
Scots Taffer on 12/1/2009 at 23:02
Unsurprisingly my family names crop up in high relativities in Ireland, lesser in Scotland and then distributed throughout the world in tiny doses.
