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I was going to comment here but I've decided to add a short column on a related subject to http://meta.wikipedia.com. -- LMS
What is "Dundee" doing, alone, under Australia? Absent evidence, that's a bad joke. Vicki Rosenzweig
Hey I'm German and the #1 German name 'Kuhl' is certainly wrong. I don't know anybody with that name. Must be sort of a 'joke'. The rest of the German list looks ok. Suggest to remove #1
I went ahead & changed "family " to "sur", when i realized it is in Category:Surnames, rather than fuss with notes clarifying the difference or lack thereof. -- Jerzy (t) 20:43, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
Is anyone really trying to expand this page? There are several common surnames that have been left off, such as Drohan ((Drohan-Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Druacháin ‘descendant of Druachán’, a byname representing a diminutive of druach, ‘wise man’. Source>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4), concentrated in eastern Canada/U.S.A and, or course, Irland) to mention one. Are there any good sites where you can post questions about a surname and get answers about its etymology? They should be included on the main surname page. (like http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?&fid=10&ln=&fn=&yr=1920)
Some of the entries in the most common surnames in India are patently false or misleading, e.g. Pisharody at No. 1. Many seem to be obvious attempts by people to have their (rather unknown) surnames added to the encyclopedia.
I do not have a definite source with which to correct the list, but it would probably be on the lines of Singh, Sharma, Gupta, Goyal, Agarwal, Patel, Patil, Rao, Jain, Shah, Mehta, Mishra, Ahuja, Taneja, etc.
Somebody do something about this, and quick, before all of the variously-surnamed idiots with internet access find out about "a one-time only, unique opportunity to have your name in the most authoritative information source on the web" hoax.
Most of Croatian names end on "ić".
That is what it says below all Croatian names. But all those Serbian names have that ending too!
Why is it not added?
I have no information at all about the most popular names in Armenia, but what does strike me is that so many names end in yan :
Petrossyan, Kocharian, Demirchyan,...
Is something like that worth adding?
Does anyone know what that's about? It seems unconnected to anything, and I know it's not the all-North America list, because that one would include Smith and Jones and other "Anglo" names as well. Anybody have any idea?
Leodmacleod 6:51 UTC 10 March 2008
Wouldn't it be useful to aggreate all the data and make a list of the most common surnames for the whole world? That's what I came here for.
Micro/polynesian Islands might be worth considering too. 158.174.100.11 ( talk) 17:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
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I was going to comment here but I've decided to add a short column on a related subject to http://meta.wikipedia.com. -- LMS
What is "Dundee" doing, alone, under Australia? Absent evidence, that's a bad joke. Vicki Rosenzweig
Hey I'm German and the #1 German name 'Kuhl' is certainly wrong. I don't know anybody with that name. Must be sort of a 'joke'. The rest of the German list looks ok. Suggest to remove #1
I went ahead & changed "family " to "sur", when i realized it is in Category:Surnames, rather than fuss with notes clarifying the difference or lack thereof. -- Jerzy (t) 20:43, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
Is anyone really trying to expand this page? There are several common surnames that have been left off, such as Drohan ((Drohan-Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Druacháin ‘descendant of Druachán’, a byname representing a diminutive of druach, ‘wise man’. Source>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4), concentrated in eastern Canada/U.S.A and, or course, Irland) to mention one. Are there any good sites where you can post questions about a surname and get answers about its etymology? They should be included on the main surname page. (like http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?&fid=10&ln=&fn=&yr=1920)
Some of the entries in the most common surnames in India are patently false or misleading, e.g. Pisharody at No. 1. Many seem to be obvious attempts by people to have their (rather unknown) surnames added to the encyclopedia.
I do not have a definite source with which to correct the list, but it would probably be on the lines of Singh, Sharma, Gupta, Goyal, Agarwal, Patel, Patil, Rao, Jain, Shah, Mehta, Mishra, Ahuja, Taneja, etc.
Somebody do something about this, and quick, before all of the variously-surnamed idiots with internet access find out about "a one-time only, unique opportunity to have your name in the most authoritative information source on the web" hoax.
Most of Croatian names end on "ić".
That is what it says below all Croatian names. But all those Serbian names have that ending too!
Why is it not added?
I have no information at all about the most popular names in Armenia, but what does strike me is that so many names end in yan :
Petrossyan, Kocharian, Demirchyan,...
Is something like that worth adding?
Does anyone know what that's about? It seems unconnected to anything, and I know it's not the all-North America list, because that one would include Smith and Jones and other "Anglo" names as well. Anybody have any idea?
Leodmacleod 6:51 UTC 10 March 2008
Wouldn't it be useful to aggreate all the data and make a list of the most common surnames for the whole world? That's what I came here for.
Micro/polynesian Islands might be worth considering too. 158.174.100.11 ( talk) 17:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)