Saturday, November 8, 2014

Surnames Including Collateral Branches - Updated

Back in 2009 I exported a list of surnames from my database, and calculated the frequency of each using this Word Frequency Counter.

Here's an updated list of surnames with counts greater than 10

217 (C/K)R(U/OO/I)V(A/O)N(T/D) This surname has as many variant spellings as one can imagine phonetically. KRUVAND, KRUVANT, and CRUVANT are the three most common.
140 VANEVERY/VAN IVEREN
92 BLATT/BLATYTA
85 DENYER
83 NEWMARK
55 FEINSTEIN
51 SWAYZE
45 DEUT(S)CH
45 COHEN
31 BRAY
30 ODELSON
21 DUBINSKY
20 LICHTMAN
20 PERLIK
17 VANN
16 FUDEMBERG
16 FELDMAN
16 OXENHANDLER
16 SIVKIN
15 BRANNON
15 ALTMAN
15 HARTLEY
14 OBERMAN
14 WEINBERG
13 SPEAR
13 BENOLD
13 BERGER
12 BROWN
12 GOLD
12 ROSS
12 WYMAN
11 SAMBOR
11 COLBERT
11 HORTON
10 CAMPBELL
10 GEIL
10 GRIFFITH
10 GROSSMAN
10 KLINSKY
10 PERKINS
10 ZIGLER
10 ZIMMERMAN

I've also started researching a second database since then. Here are the surnames from that database with counts greater than 5.

31 WALLACE
25 MOULDON
25 FULKERSON
22 GOBER
18 DAVENPORT
12 HAZEL
14 BROWN
14 SEDOR
12 BALDWIN
10 BAUER
10 FUNKE
10 WILLIAMS
8 ALCORN
8 OLSON
7 BOYD
7 RUFFERT
7 TAYLOR
7 USREY
6 MATHENY
6 SCHROCK
6 VOLK

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