Time once again for some Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. This week’s topic from Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings is to figure out how many surnames are in our family trees?

Thankfully, there was no need to count them all by hand on a pedigree chart, as RootsMagic 7 has a surname statistics list that did all the work for me.

I have 1,692 surnames in my family tree. Here are the surnames with the most family members in them and this didn’t really surprise me at all, given that some took a lot of collateral research to piece together, some are families from which I descend 2, 3 or even 4 times and a few are just very common surnames.

1. Adams – 132 people in the tree
2. Carlisle – 98
3. Coleman – 86
4. Tarbox – 80
5. Hicks – 78
6. Bucknam – 72
7. Molin – 69
8. Brown – 65
9. Haskell – 66
10. Wilson – 64
11. Scerbak – 62
12. Burt – 60
13. Redding – 59
14. Patorai – 56
15. Parker – 53
16. Wheeler – 51 – Tie
17. Lakin – 51 – Tie
18. Smith – 50
19. Pratt – 49
20. Scripture – 47

My husband’s family tree has slightly more names – 1,749 and there is but a single duplicated surname in the list (Smith)  when compared to my family tree and, no, the Smith families are not related at all.

1. Williams – 744 people in the tree
2. Miller – 154
3. Fritts – 133
4. Pryor – 130
5. Nation – 89
6. Stufflebean – 67
7. Mahon – 66
8. Woodruff – 61 – Tie
9. Spear – 61 – Tie
10. Brasher – 57
11. Hudnall – 56
12. Smith – 54
13. Nance – 54
14. Brown – 51
15. Jones – 50
16. Davis – 47
17. Bandy – 46
18. Sturgell – 45 – Tie
19. Lewis – 45 – tie
20. Shoemaker – 42

In my family tree, there are four surnames which I would consider unique in terms of one progenitor – Tarbox, Bucknam and Scripture in colonial America and Patorai in Slovakia.

In my husband’s tree, the only unique name is Stufflebean. All of the Stufflebeans/Stufflebeams are related as far as I can tell.

What surnames are in your family trees?