
The 100 Most Popular Last Names in Ingham County, Michigan
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’?

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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