Researching your surname

Ha. My surname is very German and that is exactly what the site produced

Thank you for sharing, in going to look up a few friends!

How fun! My surname is 1144th most common in the world. There is only 1 person in over 24 countries with my surname.

Hmmm.. I question the accuracy.

My maiden name is not terribly common, so I put that in. 1714 people in the world have that name, most common in Haiti. I am sure the Haitians with that last name have it from another origin. It was actually a name that was spelled incorrectly by US immigration. A u with an umlaut was converted to an o for some family members and an a for others. It lists one person in Scotland as having the name. I know there is a family (cousins) that live outside of London, but not Scotland. They list 101 people in Italy. I also suspect that is from another origin of the name, but I do remember my parents telling us that they found a deli owned by someone with the same last name in Italy once... which might mean that it is another branch of the family... or not. We are Jewish and when I hear "deli," I think Jewish delicatessen. LOL

Anyway, I do suspect that they 204 they indicate for the US are all cousins.

When I looked at the alternative spelling, with the a instead of the o, there are only 107 people.

ETA.
Well that was interesting. I zoomed in on the map for my state and it shows the counties. There were more people in my original hometown county with my last name than I know. So, I searched a little more and found a family with my maiden name that I don't actually know of. Weird, because I can pretty much identify most of the other people with that name in my state and a neighboring state. 

Mine is 496,593rd most common. 481 people in the world have this name. 409 in the US, 59 in New Zealand, 11 in Australia, 1 each in England & Mexico.

Interestingly my dad was on a submarine in the late 50's that went to NZ & Australia. He was with a host family in one of those two who had the same last name. It was the first time he ever met anyone that wasn't a relative. I searched Facebook once and found a man that is a distant cousin. He sent me a copy of a book that was in his town's library that was written and published in the early 1920's and is a history of my dad's family starting in the late 1700's.