I realize this is pretty uninteresting information for most of my blog readers. But I am placing it within my blog for my own future reference and also for the reference of the world wide web.
I found the most common Last Names quite easily at About.com BUT Smith being the most popular last name does not necessarily mean that S is the most popular letter. For example — Johnson and Jones are both in the top 5 popular names totaling about 1.2 million more then Smith (2.7m vs 3.9 (2.2 and 1.7m)).So what this all means is that I had to do some extra work-and count for myself.
These are my results:
#1: W – 5.854 million
#2: J – 5.347 million
#3: M – 4.854 million
#4: S – 4.53 million
#5: B – 4.131 million
#6: R – 3.774 million
#7: H – 3.397 million
#8: T – 3.17 million
#9: C – 3.066 million
#10: P – 2.573 million
#11: G – 2.422 million
#12: A – 2.118 million
#13: L – 1.996 million
#14: D – 1.553 million
#15: K – 804,000
#16: E – 765,000
#17: Y – 531,000
#18: F – 503,000
#19: N – 446,000
Now, please keep in mind that you may want to double check my math. My source is About.com and I don’t know how accurate it is but for my own purposes, it was accurate enough.
I cannopt thank you enougg for this info! I am puttingon an event and need to know how to break down the will call, last name lines. I found this blog invaluable!
Alicia, Seattle
Alicia, thanks for stopping by! I’m glad someone found that tid bit of random information helpful!
I also found this SOOOOOO helpful! Thank you for your effort!
Thanks for putting this here: I had a sudden bust of curiosity (seeing most of my phone Contacts had a last name beginning with ‘S’) and, frankly, did not expect to find this sort of list. But my curiosity is satisfied!
Thanks for the info, it sure saved me some time!! Awesome.
Very interesting to me!! I am embroidering some monogramed keyfobs to sell at a craft show and wondered what letters were most commonly used to help me decide how many to make. This information is very helpful to me….Thanks Pamelia
Well, we think this is interesting information because we are putting together our hold shelf boxes at my store….needed to know how to arrange the boxes.
Thanks!!!
Thank you! Very useful!!
exactly what I was looking for! I love the internet
List I had only went to 19 and I tried all I could to get to remainder of list. I need this info for a project with a deadline of 5/23. If I missed a way to get to the rest of the list, please advise. LOL. I really appreciate
List I had only went to 19 and I tried all I could to get to remainder of list. I need this info for a project with a deadline of 5/23. If I missed a way to get to the rest of the list, please advise. LOL. Thanks so much in advance. Also, this site was a life-saver!!!!
Thank you. I’m creating a reading journal, and this will help me determine how many pages to allocate to authors’ last names.
Thanks so much for posting this! Helpful for monogramming!