CLEVELAND, Ohio – It's no surprise Smith is the most common S last name in Cuyahoga County. But what about the rest of the alphabet? Cleveland.com took a look through the Cuyahoga County voter rolls ...

NORFOLK, Va. — There's a name that means power to Dunnsville, Virginia man Ronnie Sidney II: Lewis Corbin. Corbin was Sidney's third great-grandfather. He escaped slavery from the Bellevue Plantation ...

Read all about the history of your Irish surname or your family name's meanings in our list of most common Irish last names. Ever wondered about the history behind your Irish name? Where did your ...

This photo taken Nov. 9, 2010, shows Emily Goodmann, a doctoral student who is doing her dissertation on the history of the telephone book. Ancestry, with the help of the white pages, researched the ...

Your surname can be a major clue as to whether you are descended from royalty. Having any one of these last names associates you with the aristocracy. Philip Turvey, executive director at Anglia ...