Thursday, December 8, 2011

How Popular Are We?

Having printed off all th Census pages for 1911 where a HOOKINS (and some labelled as HOOKINS but probably not because of 1911 handwriting and 2011 readers!) appears and I am now indexing those before adding details gleaned to the individual records. I have also started indexing the web page and other prints I have for births, baptisms, banns, marriages, deaths and burials so it is easier for reference purposes and also avoiding duplication.
I have come across some new sites to glean information and I have just established that there are about 280 people in England & Wales who currently hold the HOOKINS name. Eventually I will have indexed some of the Censuses and will be able to see if we are expanding as a name or gradually leaving the human race!
In answer to the question "How Popular Are We" it seems that we hold =17023rd place in England & Wales but there are over 270,000 different surnames so in that case we are pretty popular.
You may also be interested to know that there are 2038 people called CHRISTMAS, 40 SANTAs, 323 RUDOLPHs, 7 NEWYEARs, 678 HOLLYs, 5947 SNOWs, 1556 SNOWBALLs, 38 SNOWMANs (SNOWMEN?) and 18,440 WINTERs in England and Wales.There are also 27 DASHERs, 1104 DANCERs, 307 PRANCEs (no PRANCERs), 89 VICKERSONs (no VIXEN), 9 COMETs, 77 CUPIDs, 380 DONNERs and 82 BLITZ (but no BLITZEN).

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