Google Your Last Name

[Casey]

1) What is your last name?
Banks
2) From where does your last name originate?
?.
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
Sure.
4) How many results do you get?
18,400,000
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
No, because Banks is like river banks, money banks, etc.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
No
7) Post a couple results.

[Rainecloud]

1) What is your last name?
Torkington.
2) From where does your last name originate?
The United Kingdom.
3) How common do you consider your last name to be?
Not very common, although there are certain landmarks in our town which date back to the early members of my family. The park and local hat works are named after them, for instance.
4) How many results do you get?
36,300 on Google for my name, and 831 for the Image search.
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Definitely.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
It's quite possible that a couple of them are my relatives, although I obviously don't know them. One half of the family moved to New Zealand in 1886, and you can find their webpage here. The other half stayed in the UK, and I'm a result of that.
7) Post a couple results.



The family crest.



This one really disturbed me. It's from Torkington Park in Hazel Grove, which is located approximately 5 minutes from my house. I used to play in this "Secret Garden" as a child, so it was weird for me to see it here on the Internet.

[Kirobaito]

1) What is your last name?
Graham
2) From where does your last name originate?
Scotland
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
I know that it's the 89th most common United States surname. So yeah, I'd say it's fairly common.
4) How many results do you get?
9,800,000 @_@
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Yeah.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
[img]www.countrypet.com/photogallery/bob%20graham.jpg[/img]
[img]www.oohgirl.com/global/graham.jpg[/img]

[Skogs]

1) What is your last name?
Coughlan
2) From where does your last name originate?
Ireland
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
In Ireland and Irish communities it is.
4) How many results do you get?
191,000
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
No, not really.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
No, but apparently all Coughlans are related...
7) Post a couple results.

Marisa Coughlan


Mary Coughlan


Frank Coughlan


Mark Coughlan

[Meat Puppet]

1) What is your last name?
Donald

2) From where does your last name originate?
Some bloody Scottish lord thing. Dunno.

3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
In a sense.

4) How many results do you get?
52,800,000

5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
No.

6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
No.

7) Post a couple results.

[sephxangel]

) What is your last name? Rainey
2) From where does your last name originate?Ireland
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?Yes
4) How many results do you get?Too many to count
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?well...kind of.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know? not at the moment
7) Post a couple results.
http://www.names.com/namefinder.cfm?action=preview

[Loony BoB]

My last name is Towns, it's surprisingly uncommon (which is in no way reflected by Google's 10,000,000+ results) and there's no way I'm going through those looking for relatives. I did find this bloke, though:

http://www.actmusic.com/images/towns.jpg

[Kaos Nishiakari]

1) What is your last name?
Nicoll
2) From where does your last name originate?
The Highland clan McNickel
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
No
4) How many results do you get?
Web: 164,000 Images: 3,110
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Yep
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
Not yet
7) Post a couple results.

[Tfalk]

1) what is your last name?
Falkenberg
2) From where does your last name originate?
not sure. germany would be a guess
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
fairly common since there's lots of stuff named falkenberg
4) How many results do you get?
web: 507000 images: 8030
5) were you surprised be how many results you got?
nah not really
6) did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
nope
7) post a couple results


apparently there's a town called falkenberg....

[Iceglow]

1) What is your last name?

My last name is Causer-Smith

2) From where does your last name originate?

My name is originally polish, it was changed in the 1940s when my grand parents came to england and no one could spell the name it also made it safer for them, this was the middle of WW2 and it looked german otherwise.

3) Do you consider your last name to be common?

No my surname Causer-smith is unique apart from my sister and myself no one on the planet has it

4) How many results do you get?

I got 0 picture results on either but I did get two results searching the web.

5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?

no, I know that the majority of the photos of me on the net aren't labelled with my surname and my sister has none on the net. The 2 hits for normal web searching were my own site and a one time friends site

6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?

no cause I got no results for my surname

7) Post a couple results.

what can I post there's nothing...nothing! (knowming you lot some of you will now dig out my picture from the post your picture threads and label it with my surname just so I get a hit or two)

[Silmaril]

1) What is your last name?
A) Rahman
2) From where does your last name originate?
A)It's an Arabic word for the merciful/merciful person.
3) How common do you consider your last name to be?
A)I've met only one other Rahman, so I don't think it's very common.
4) How many results do you get?
A)848'000. Odd.
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
A)Nah, not really.
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
A)I refuse to crawl through 848'000 results to look for people whom i can find in my grandma's phonebook.
7) Post a couple results.
A)There's nothing interesting to post.

[White Raven]

1) What is your last name?
Black

2) From where does your last name originate?
Germany is where I'm from, but god knows where the word "Black" comes from.

3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
Meh.

4) How many results do you get?
1,440,000 (GIS)
1,620,000 (Yahoo image)
153,000,000 (Regular google)

5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Not really.

6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
Nope.

7) Post a couple results.

[Rusty]

1) What is your last name?
Rigby

2) From where does your last name originate?
I've heard it originated from the Roman gypsies.

3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
No

4) How many results do you get?
Google search: 516 000
Google Image search: 8410

5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Not really

6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
Not yet, but then again, I have to search through 8410 pages.

7) Post a couple results.
http://images.google.com.au/images?q...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

See for yourself...there's actually quite a few headstones, a african cheif and some boring looking people

[SomethingBig]

1) What is your last name?
See
2) From where does your last name originate?
Dunno!
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
Not at all
4) How many results do you get?
About 279,000,000
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
No
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
Nah
7) Post a couple results.

[Female Ryuichi]

1) What is your last name?
Goulding
2) From where does your last name originate?
Ireland
3) Do you consider your last name to be common?
Eh...it's kinda of common.
4) How many results do you get?
160,000
5) Were you surprised by how many results you got?
Nopr
6) Did you find any photos of you or relatives you know?
Well, I found some of my dad's work http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/2000...g_686-689.html
7) Post a couple results.






The dog looks like my old dog, the name is mine spelt different and she looks a bit like my mum when she was younger. x_x 0_0