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Nottingham Post
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David Whitfield

How 'Nottingham' is your surname as widget shows most popular

Do you know where your surname is most popular around the country?

Whether you're a true Nottinghamian, or you moved here during the course of your life, there's a website which can tell you how 'Nottingham' your name is.

The Named website maps places in the UK where particular surnames have an unusually high local population.

You can put your own surname in to find out where your name is especially popular.

To have a go, click here.

According to the sofeminine.co.uk website, these are the 20 most common surnames in Nottinghamshire:

  1. Smith
  2. Taylor
  3. Brown
  4. Thompson
  5. Mills
  6. Wilkinson
  7. Holland
  8. Robinson
  9. Johnson
  10. Hill
  11. Walker
  12. .Jones
  13. Wright
  14. Booth
  15. Sadiq
  16. Andrew
  17. Palmer
  18. Dowell
  19. Lewis
  20. Stoppard

However, as many of them are fairly common names across the country, they might not show up as being particularly prevalent in Nottinghamshire.

The website will also let you add your partner’s surname, too, and will then try and predict where it was you met.

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