This site is facinating:

http://cetl2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/uclnames/Surnames.aspx

Quite scary too! Back in 1881 all with my surname were concentrated in one small place. Now the surname is all over, which I guess means that the few non-family people I've met with the same surname were cousins...........albeit probably ninth cousins ten times removed!!!



oops- thread title should be 1881 and 1998 - soz!