There's an article in my newspaper today about surnames, or rather, about distribution of surnames. Have a look here to see where people with your surname live (in the UK). If you have a look at "Jackson", you'll see we're mainly gathered in Yorkshire (and the NW). Sounds about right - even though most of my father's family is down in Nottingham these days. Apparently, there are 102,037 Jacksons in the UK - or there were in 1998. However, I can get round that by saying that my name is "popular", not "common"! There are (or again, were) 559 men out there with Jackson as their forename. As a first name, rather posh, it seems. Pointless research? Possibly, but it's an excuse to look at maps. I like looking at maps...
PS. Hugo wins, Sally. There are only 446 of you out there. Watch yourself though. We outnumber you 229-to-1. ;-)
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4 comments:
Looks like my namesakes live in Oxford, Norfolk and South West Wales. Hardly a blip in the Yorkshire area.
Fair's fair, you're not there any more either. [And you were in Edinburgh in '98, weren't you?] ;-)
Seriously though, I think it's really interesting. And shows that your Mum and Dad are a northern outpost of a suprisingly rare name...
My Dad's family are pretty well rooted in Yorkshire, but our name was always pretty unique in the phonebook.
Can't say that about mine!! lol.
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