Who “owns” your surname?

Thu 15 March 2012 7:13am by
Filed under: News and events 

Go to Google News (preferably in an anonymous browser window so it’s not skewed towards your usual searches — though it will detect your location/country).

Search for your surname. Who comes up top?

For me it’s Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.

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11 comments on Who “owns” your surname?

  1. roger on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 8:39 am

    2. What a fun thing to do!
    I share a surname with a famous Australian (in history) so the first hit is a school named after the famous man.

  2. Alexander on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 8:44 am

    3. In Ancient History, it was me, but nowadays everyone is on the internet, and it’s a geological consultancy. I don’t even make the first page any more, but a member of my family does.

  3. enno on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 9:26 am

    4. If I google “Daniel Bowen”, you come up on top and Chris Bowen is nowhere to be seen.

  4. Wilson Afonso on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 10:12 am

    5. French golfer Caroline Afonso, whom I’d never heard of, followed by a few people who have Afonso as their first name.

  5. PaulK on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 11:23 am

    6. I share mine with a University in USA

  6. Julian on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 1:42 pm

    7. Parramatta Lord Mayor Lorraine Wearne… Not very exciting.

  7. Konrad Talmont-Kaminski on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 8:17 pm

    8. Me. Indeed all the hits refer to me.

  8. Bonnie on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 9:05 pm

    9. The highest ranking person on Google News with my surname is a player with the Minnesota Vikings.

    If I google my whole name, I’m a founder of a community kitchen serving meals for the needy, a professor of sociology, a lawyer, and a medium.

    It’s also fun to submit your name to Google Images, and see all the other “yous” out there.

  9. enno on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 9:23 pm

    10. I think I will change my name to DeLorean

  10. Kath Lockett on Thu, 15th Mar 2012 10:04 pm

    11. Mine keeps flinging me back to Switzerland, where Lockett Pundt is on top.

    When referred back to Oz, it’s of course Tony Lockett.

  11. meski on Tue, 20th Mar 2012 1:40 pm

    12. Alex Smith, of the SF 49ers, with 4635 references.