Common names

I don't know any now but in my childhood one set of neighbours was named Smith.

My maiden name was Smith and my married name is very unusual but I won't out myself on here - you could say I went from the commonplace to the ridiculous!

Apart from a past school teacher I don't know anyone called Jones.

My maiden name was Miller, not the reason for the dusty part of my used name I only realised that a couple of years ago. Anyone with my married surname is probably a relation.

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Doing some family research in the Channel Isles and there Smith is a very uncommon name I was told.

I know a large family of Smiths.

I used to work with a Mrs Smith, but apart from her, I don't know any others.

My maiden name is Welsh, married name is Yorkshire and my Christian name is French.

I have just looked mine up, there are only 56 in England so probably related to most of them.

I am here, by marriage

We knew several Smith families.

Jones is very common here but I live in Wales.

My grandad was a Smith
Admitted I don’t think I know any now

My Gran was a Smith, I have plenty of Smith cousins.

We're here but many of us married and took our husband's name. At least I never had to spell Smith

We have many Smiths and Joneses on our family tree.

What a coincidence, This afternoon I watched a repeat programme of "Tenable". One of the questions was " What are the top ten most common surnames i Scotland"? The number one answer was "Smith", (I would never have guessed that!).

I went from a plain surname to my married name that is rather awful, both my sons were given hell at school for it. Dil has chosen not to take the name which at first dh and I were upset about at the time, but to be fair even double barrelling their surnames it sounded like a lunatic asylum

My Nan's maiden name was Smith - there were dozens of them!

My most glamorous friend is a Smith married to a John and DH went to school with a John Smith.

My 'maiden' name is very common in Ireland but spelt differently and my married name is very uncommon ...unless you count the family down the road who have the same name.

Smiths are neighbours.
Taught with two teachers with the same christian name; one was a Smith and married, the other married and became one.

My two cousins both married men called Smith.

Interesting, thought provoking thread. I've always known about Smith being the most common surname, but haven't given any thought to it in recent years. I've been thinking hard to come up with people known to me by that name. I can only recall one family and that's from well over sixty years ago! But in primary school there was a boy called Ian Sixsmith! Does this count? Or is it One (6) Upmanship

I transcribe BMD records and Census records for a couple of online sights and always surprised at how few Smiths/Jones there are in them. Maybe it's just that there weren't so many in Somerset back in the 1800s.
I only know of a couple lots now.

Aldom's post jogged my memory. My dad's first name and surname are both quite common, in Scotland at least.

At school in the forties there were six boys in his class with the exact same name!

My friend is a Smith, but to me the most common surname name is Jones. The small town my Grandmother was from is full of them, in fact her maiden name was Jones and she married a Jones - you possibly understand why I gave up with my family history studies?