If you live in DeKalb County, home of Northern Illinois University,  there is a strong chance your last name is Johnson, Miller or Johnson, but you will have to keep up with the Shroeders, Hansons, and the Frieders. The list is out of the most common last names of residents of DeKalb County.

Did you make the list? The website Forebears crunched the data. Yes, there are a lot of Smith's, Stahl's, Carlson's and Moore's in Kirkland, Sycamore, Malta, Kingston, DeKalb and throughout the county.

Here are the TOP 50 Surnames in DeKalb County (as of 2014)

1 Johnson
2 Smith
3 Anderson
4 Miller
5 Olson
6 Jones
7 Williams
8 White
9 Davis
9 Brown
11 Nelson
12 Taylor
13 Hill
14 Moore
15 Wilson
15 Larson
15 Carlson
18 Clark
18 Campbell
20 Thompson
21 Hanson
21 Allen
23 Meyer
24 Thomas
24 Mitchell
24 Lee
27 Walker
27 Hoffman
27 Baker
30 Schroeder
30 Gray
32 Fox
33 Scott
33 Martin
35 Peterson
36 Young
37 Wilkinson
37 Swanson
37 Rogers
37 Myers
37 Morris
37 Lewis
37 Collins
44 Stahl
44 King
44 Garcia
47 Roberts
47 Murphy
49 Shaw
49 Robinson
49 Phillips
49 Hernandez
49 Harris
49 Frieders
49 Bright
49 Bark

Did you last name make the list?

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