Monday, February 16, 2009

Warne-Fowkes info

How common is our last name? I found a cool website, dynastree.com, that shows the distribution of any last name in the United States. Here is the distribution of Warne:

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Distribution of the surname Warne
Distribution of the surname Warne

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In the US there are 956 phone book entries with the surname Warne and approximately 3,445 persons with this name.
Thus, the surname Warne the 10100th most frequent name in the US.
People with this surname live in 47 states. Most occurrences are in California: 133.
Other states with lots of occurrences are Minnesota (79), South Dakota (60), New York (59), Florida (49), Ohio (45), Pennsylvania (42), Arizona (34), Texas (32), as well as Washington (30).


Here's the map and data about the Fowkes surname:
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Distribution of the surname Fowkes
Distribution of the surname Fowkes

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In the US there are 283 phone book entries with the surname Fowkes and approximately 1,019 persons with this name.
Thus, the surname Fowkes the 28126th most frequent name in the US.
People with this surname live in 30 states. Most occurrences are in Pennsylvania: 56.
Other states with lots of occurrences are California (32), Utah (24), Florida (22), Ohio (17), New York (16), Massachusetts (13), Virginia (9), Texas (8), as well as Maryland (8).

3 comments:

Katy said...

That's fun, guys!

William Fowkes said...

That's fascinating. The Fowkeses have apparently been very productive lately. The last time I looked into it--10 or 15 years ago--there were supposedly only a few hundred people in the US with the surname Fowkes. Also, when I was in Wales on a visit in 1989, I went to the national library in Aberwystwyth and checked all the phone directories for Wales and London and came up with only about 7 entries.

Another question: how do people pronounce it? In my family, it's Fowkes with an "ow" as in cow," but elsewhere I've heard it as Fowkes with an "ow" as in "low."

Power to the Fowkes!
William Fowkes
New York, NY

steveandemilee said...

Thanks for the comment, William! My (Emilee) maiden name is Fowkes and we do pronounce it the same as you! I had William Fowkes that was my uncle too, actually. Anyway, we are of the line that came out of Ibstock, Leicestershire in the 1800s, and on to Coalville Utah and then to settle in Almy, Wyoming, where Fowkeses still reside and hold property today. Glad to meet another one of us!