How Posh are You?

[Top Hat]

Go here:
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

Lots of surname facts.

For the poshness click the Geographical Location link and look at the % of people with a more high-status name

Lower the number the posher you are

Top Hat and SillyJokes 21% of people are posher.

 

[Mwebb]

19% here:
Must be a mistake.

 

[Pebble Communications]

59% are posher than me and the most common Mosaic index occupation for my surname is 'on benefits'.
Good grief. I didn't think my name was all that 'common'. I've clearly been deluding myself...

 

[Cornish Steve]

I'm going to have to question the result. 35%? In reality, I would say that 99% are posher. Very few are more rural.

 

[Sandy]

Didn't work for me I'm afraid. There just aren't that many Hristovas in the UK. Does that make me the poshest then, because surely if I was listed, I'd be at the top being the only one!

 

[Dawg]

There was a nice cartoon in The Times of a man having his shoes shined. He says "My name is really posh, don't you know?" And the shoeshine boy says "Yes Mr Snootybastard sir"
Doesn't come up on that site for some reason..

 

[Coding Monkey]

12%, although it could only find Cahalane

 

[directmarketingadvice]

89% posher than me. So, I've done well given my humble roots.

And my profile is "Sharing a Staircase" or, as I'd put it, "not wasting my life doing gardening".

And the highest density of my surname in the UK is in Kilmarnock (and, in the US, Kilmarnock's closest equivalent, Kentucky).

Steve

 

I couldn't get anywhere with the link (though i know my name isn't posh - sniff!)

 

Ok managed it, our Mosaic Classification is 'Industrial Grit' (figures!)

 

I'm not even going to attempt this - my tiny family is the only one in the UK with our surname and half of my family members have changed it through marriage (but not I, I kept my name). There are only 5 of us left.

 

[Niteflyer]

17% for me

 

[Vicky R]

I am so posh my family name doesn't even register a percentage! ;-)

I always wondered where I got my expensive taste...