I saw my surname roll by in the credits of a television show.
Being of Irish descent, most ended up in the US of A.
The spelling of my surname is rated at 164,554 most common in the world.
There are 2,333 people with this name in the US.
147 in England
75 in Australia
50 in Canada
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Seen my surname a few times. My Dad’s brother was the governor of what was once Southern Rhodesia. I was in my infancy in those days.
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Mamand is the164,554th most common name the world, and the most common in Pakistan.
147 in England may refer to the maximum break in snooker.
say Google
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d00d Mamand…it kind of rolls off the tongue 
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Waid, you’ve officially raised surname sharing to an art form. Global rank, country counts, and a cameo in the credits, that’s not a fun fact, that’s a résumé.
With only 75 people in Australia sharing the name, you might want to trademark it before someone registers waid.au.
All in good humour, of course, but just a gentle reminder: the internet doesn’t need breadcrumbs when it’s already got your whole bakery.
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Ah, your uncle was the governor of Southern Rhodesia? So we’re talking Sir Humphrey Gibbs or Sir Peveril William-Powlett, casual! I was just saying the other day how every family has one, right? Some have accountants, some have baristas… and some ran former British colonies.
Between Waid’s surname world tour and your diplomatic dynasty, this thread’s not a forum anymore, it’s an Ancestry.com VIP reunion.
At this rate, someone’s nan is going to turn out to be Churchill’s speechwriter.
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Nope, neither of those two. He was Prime Minister from 1933 to 1953
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How strange this topic cropped up. Only a couple of days ago I had a letter from America from far distant cousins who were tracing their family names.
So they found me and wanted to now about my side of the family here in the UK.
What I found interesting was they also included everything they had discovered about the ancestory in the USA.
Reading the letter they wrote that one of the ancestors was at the Battle of the Little Big Horn with Custer. Apparently they were camping in the next field and went over to see what all the noise was about
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I had a couple of those back in the 90s when internet was new, to me.
Cousins across the pond seem to think if you’ve got the same name then you’re related.
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DooD you missed the joke in my post 
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Some African bloke rang me the other day and said he was related to me and he would love to come over and meet my family. The problem was, all his money was in an obscure African bank and wasn’t recognised by any of the airline companies.
He wanted to put some money into my account so I could book a flight for him… 
I just had to give him my account details…
He’s due to arrive next wednesday… 