Apparently, there is just one person in Kazakhstan with the surname ‘Kinsella’.
Forebears.io is an incredible database that can tell you everything you need to know about your last name stats. This includes all the incidents of the name, as the well as the name’s distribution across countries, and how popular the name is in your own country.
All you need to do is type your name into their search bar.
The index can also tell you how common your name is worldwide (Kinsella, for example, is the 25,696th most common surname in the world).
According to Forebears, Murphy is the most common surname in Ireland – but there are more Murphys in the USA and the UK than there are in Ireland.
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