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Try 'n' guess which non-French last name is the most common in Quebec. Points for any names in the top 3.

Posted by Bryan on December 30, 2004 with category tags of

14 comments
Everyone's favorite generic english name: Smith?
or non-english: Nguyen?
   comment by Alex (#118) on December 30, 2004

Johnson
   comment by vinny9 (#33) on December 30, 2004

Alex nailed the #2 (Smith, 189th overall) and #3 (Nguyen, 211th) spots. (Nguyen was also my guess.)

Johnson is 554th overall. Most of them have been premier of Quebec.
   comment by Bryan (#22) on December 30, 2004

Pierre
   comment by trckands (#152) on December 30, 2004

Blackburn is my guess.

Remember that Heritage Minute where the Irish kids were adopted by French families. And wherever Catholics get together, last names tend to get passed down.
   comment by chrisdye on December 31, 2004

The girl in the Heritage minute is called Molly Johnson... I guess she didn't keep her name or pass it to her kids.
   comment by vinny9 (#33) on December 31, 2004

Blackburn = 444th
   comment by Bryan (#22) on December 31, 2004

Mac/McKenzie
   comment by clare on January 1, 2005

McKenzie = 932nd
   comment by Bryan (#22) on January 1, 2005

Well if Nguyen was up there perhaps it's another oriental name. Like Wong? Or Lee?

Or perhaps it's Walsh?
   comment by dustin (#1) on January 2, 2005

Lee = 507th
Wong = 653rd
Walsh = 1100th

A man with this name played for the Montreal Canadiens.
   comment by Bryan (#22) on January 2, 2005

Richard? I guess I don't really think of Richard as an english name in quebec... where's blake on the list?

There's a sizeable vietnamese population in quebec, whereas the chinese population has better representation on the Wes' Si-eede. Bryan, any numbers on the other provinces? Where are you getting this info from?

   comment by Alex (#118) on January 2, 2005

The answer is Harvey. In Quebec, that's pronounced Harvé... and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if more francophones had this last name than anglophones given chrisdye's explanation above.

See the top 1000 here and other stats too.

Thanks for playing, suckas!
   comment by Bryan (#22) on January 2, 2005

Oops.. I mean it's pronounced Arvé.
   comment by Bryan (#22) on January 3, 2005

   

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