http://www.americanlastnames.us Copyright (c) 2012 ANC Labs Inc 24 Please bookmark this page: http://www.1940census.archives.gov/ .This is where you will be able to access the digitized census records starting on April 2nd 2012 . The digital images will be accessible free of charge at NARA facilities nationwide through our public access computers as well as on personal computers via the internet. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#0 Andrew Sun, 18 Mar 2012 There is a page for every state now that shows the ranks of the most popular baby names in a particular state. The data is provided by the Social Security Administration. It is aggregated on this web site by all avalable years. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#1 Andrew Sun, 12 Feb 2012 There is one other web site we have been working in the recent times: http://www.genealogydig.com/ . Currently it has data on US and British counties and US genealogical societies. The more interesting and completepart of it is the USA counties: http://www.genealogydig.com/usa-counties.html . Every state map is augmented with the corresponding counties. You might have to wait few seconds while county data is being loaded. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#2 Andrew Fri, 18 Nov 2011 For the majority of these names 'meaning' informatin is available. The names are not part of the USA censuses. It is almost for certain that the names exist in the United States, but they are not mentioned in the census aggregated data since they are not very widespread, i.e. less than a 100 representetives for each name existed in 2000. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#3 Yulia Thu, 10 Nov 2011 I see that question all the time. I want to know that too. Unfortunately the last names are still not available. I have not seen any note on when they will be. I am pretty confident that the names will end up on http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/ . This is the place where the two previous censuses (1990, 2000) surnames ended up. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#4 Andrew Sat, 17 Aug 2011 At this point all surnames with English roots have been processed. There are about 17,000 of them. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#5 Andrew Sat, 06 Aug 2011 Added a bunch of names for leters 'K' and 'R.' Added ethnic data from the census to the majority of the names. The article section of the site was extended with 'American last names,' 'How to estimate the number of unique last name in the USA,' 'Russian middle names,' and 'Ukrainian middle names.' http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#6 Andrew Sun, 22 May 2011 Added a new section - 'USA Presidents last names.' It is quite interestng to see ho the names of those great people have developed. A thing to notice is the absence of Obama's name from the USA names list. The name is actually quite rare, there were less than 100 Obamas living in the US in 2000. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#7 Andrew Mon, 28 February 2011 The GenealogyDig forum proved to be worse than useless... It had had almost no meaningfull entries on names or anything even remotely genealogical in it. That would have been just ok. Worse than that, the forum was attacked by a group of spammers... I can keep them at bay cleaning their obsene ads every other hour... But it is just not worth it at this point. Until I figure out a way to get decent contents in the forum, the forum will not be available. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#8 Andrew Sun, 23 January 2011 Some data from the 2010 Census results are now available to the public. The Census Bureau has released the resident population for the nation and states, as well as congressional apportionment totals for each state. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog.html#9 Andrew Sat, 25 December 2010 What did I expect to find when looked at my newly redesigned page with the first 100 most popular surnames. I just wanted to see how name popularity had changed for the most common surnames from the year 1990 to 2000. Up and down arrows really help now to quickly grab the essence of the changes.The first three most popular names clearly kept their top positions. Several other names from the list simply exchanged places. But out of 100 top names all 16 Hispanic names moved up on average by 27 positions. For example, Garcia moved 10 positions from the 18th to the eighth position, Ramirez moved 28 positions from the 70th to 42nd position, Gutierrez moved 106 positions from 202nd to 96th position, and so forth.It has been mentioned about the rise in number of people with Hispanic heritage in the United States. I was pleased that my research is in line with that fact. It proves the validity of it. I am also glad my web page is good at visualizing things like that. I am looking forward to the US census 2010 data to come out since the 2000-2010 change can prove to be more reflective. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#10 Andrew Sat, 23 October 2010 We were adding data about a few names originated in Scotland and England. Most of the entered last names started with H. One name cought my attention: Houston. It did so mainly bacause it was the name of the very famous Texan - Sam Houston, a soldier, the third President of the Republic of Texas, US Senator for Texas, and finally governor of the state.Well, that is not really the point here... What seemed really interesting to me was how the name had been formed. It had some history behind it, but I found the simplicity of the name building to be the most interesting part: "In the 12th century Hugh de Paduinan acquired the lands of Kilpeterm and buit a residence there, to which he gave the name of Hugh's Town, now Houston, county Renfrew." Yes, the famous Texan's name or one of the largest cities in the United States is just literally 'a town of Hugh.' You can view the full description on our web site. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#11 Andrew Fri, 24 Septemb er 2010 The website now also displays some rank information from 1990 US census. All idividual web pages show each name rank in 2000 US census and if possible in the 1990 one. All web pages with lists of names have two additional columns now: Rank in US Census 1990 and Delta in ranks of names between the two censuses. The ranks in the year 1990 were not quite what they were in 2000. For one thing we have a lot fewer of them. For the other they do not take into account that some low count last names really have the same ranks. Every name in 1990 census has its own rank. It is not a big problem though since with low count names ranks can change greatly in a 10 year time frame. This small issue will rarely have any significant effect on the magnitude of rank deltas. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#12 Andrew Fri, 20 August 2010 Yes. Starting today our web site will feature YouTube clips on questions related to genealogy in general and last names in particular. We intend the main topic to be strongly related to surnames but expect it to stray away from that course from time to time. Naturally it will take place when the material is interesting enough to justify the deviations. View them here!www.americanlastname.com/videos/surname-video-0.html http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#13 Andrew Wed, 14 July 2010 Well, one obvious place to look is the US Census Burea: http://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/overview/1930.html The only problem is that nowere on that site you will find the full set of census data. They will eventually tell you that you need to go to one of the larger public libraries and scan the microfilm rolls there. Better yet you can order the rolls for $60 per piece and then again you will have to somehow scan it. A place to get the already scanned information is here: http://www.archive.org/details/1930_census They have the latest publicly available census (1930) scanned, not transcribed but more or less fully scanned. Ancestry.com is where one would go for partially transcribed various census materials. But those guys are pricey. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#14 Andrew Sun, 27 June 2010 Changed the layout of the site pages. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#15 Andrew Mon, 31 May 2010 We still have a way to vew the last names n the alphabetical order but now one can just go thru all the names starting with the most popular ones like Smith and Johnson to very rare and unique like Zusi or Zulu. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#16 Julia Sat, 7 May 2010 The main ones are here: manipulated the sizes to make the page look tider, added facebook and twitter options, added meaningfull info to the intermidiate pages, and extended popularity based capabilities. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#17 Julia Sun, 25 Apr 2010 One can subscribe to it on our twitter account @americannames. The first week surname is APE. Would you like to know more? http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#18 Andrew Sat, 24 Apr 2010 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:03:44 GMT http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog1.html#19 Andrew We recently created a Genealogy forum on www.GenealogyDig.com/phpBB3. It is not populated with much data at the moment and has only three official users, but we hope it will eventually get some traction. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog2.html#20 Julia Sat, 19 Mar 2010 Didn't see very curious names there. Maybe just the fact that a bunch of names with English origin have been derived from first names Matilda and Margaret. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog2.html#21 Andrew Sat, 06 Mar 2010 How do you search for names that start with, say, 'an' ... Well, that is fairly straightforward. You google 'last name starts with an' and hope for the best. The search engine usually provides you with a set of names or sites where you find the names. What do you do if you need to find all the surnames that end with, say, 'son'... Unfortunately, you are not likely to find anything reasonable. A web site needs to have a simplified regular expression search capabilities to address that. Not many sites have a search button. I am yet to see one with any kind of patter matching (set aside: 'find surname starting with 'an' type of queries) abilities. That type of query is not very helpful anyway since general search engines take care of them already. Yes, we got a request like that from a client. No, we could not help the client this time since there is no search button on our site. No pattern matching either. This is certainly something to think about. We will add the matching eventually. The general search engines will need to be encouraged to show the matching page for the right requests. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog2.html#22 Andrew Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Turned out I was wrong. The twitter account use is interesting, but 140 characters per post restriction seems just too artificial. One can say the project is still at the inception stage with lots of moving parts and many things to work on. The goal of collecting data on a meaningful percentage of American last names seems to be somewhere in the future... But progress is being made, more and more surnames make it to the web site, and we are very excited with how everything is moving forward. http://www.americanlastnames.us/blog/blog2.html#23 Andrew Thu, 18 Feb 2010