I have a problem with ‘lists’. Some websites are always making lists of the biggest, smallest, best, worst, oldest, etc. things and places in Michigan. These are usually made-up lists by whoever writes them, but sometimes they are legitimate.

Another problem I have with them, is when you revisit the sites, sometimes they have been deleted. Really? So how legit can they actually be?

Some time ago I did an article that listed the top 100 most popular surnames in  Michigan’s Ingham County. When I attempted to return to the website where I discovered these ‘facts’, it had been taken down and deleted. So was their data correct or were they busted for fake ‘facts’?

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They posted their findings in 2024, so I figure I’d go back ten years and see if their info had changed. No luck. So the list you will see below showing Ingham County’s 100 most popular last names, MAY still be correct, but who really knows? No update that I could find.

So take a look below and see what surnames were allegedly Ingham County’s most popular ones ten years ago, and see if yours even made the list.....

1 Smith 

2 Johnson 

3 Brown 

4 Miller 

5 Williams 

6 Jones 

7 Davis 

8 Wilson 

9 Taylor 

10 Anderson 

11 Clark 

12 Allen 

13 Moore 

14 Jackson 

15 Martin 

16 Baker 

17 Lee 

18 Hall 

19 Lewis 

20 Thomas 

21 White 

22 Walker 

23 Scott 

24 Harris 

25 Thompson 

26 Robinson 

27 Wright 

28 Cook 

29 King 

30 Young 

31 Nelson 

32 Campbell 

33 Hill 

34 Green 

35 Mitchell 

36 Wood 

37 Parker 

38 Bennett 

39 Garcia 

40 Adams 

41 Carter 

42 Reed 

43 Petersen 

44 Nguyen 

45 Rogers 

46 Ward 

47 Bailey 

48 Roberts 

49 Morris 

50 Reynolds 

51 Morgan 

52 Brooks 

53 Foster 

54 Phillips 

55 Turner 

56 Murphy 

57 Evans 

58 Bell 

59 Rodriguez 

60 Stewart 

61 Cooper 

62 Marshall 

63 Gray 

64 Lopez 

65 Hicks 

66 Graham 

67 Cole 

68 Ross 

69 Pierce 

70 Curtis 

71 Hernandez 

72 Collins 

73 Patterson 

74 Kelly 

75 Kelley 

76 Howard 

77 Fox 

78 Russell 

79 Price 

80 Gonzalez 

81 Hart 

82 Palmer 

83 Richardson 

84 Martinez 

85 Hamilton 

86 Schultz 

87 Dunn 

88 Long 

89 Kim 

90 Chapman 

91 Wheeler 

92 Wallace 

93 Carpenter 

94 Watson 

95 Edwards 

96 Stevens 

97 Olson 

98 James 

99 Hawkins 

100 West 

Did you make the list? 

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