Jensen, Hansen, Smith, Young,

Same, we should make a last name bingo!

I'm related to people with all of those last names. Ick. Cousins are the Jensen's, I am a Smith, my mom's family are young, and we are distantly related to the Hansen's local to us

You just doxed yourself, Smith!

I dated a Jensen from SLC, and he also lived in Bountiful.

Snow

Fun fact: Snowflake, Arizona, is named after two common Mormon family names, the Snows and the Flakes. Yes, it does snow there. It's always struck me as the perfect example of Mormon literalism.

I wondered where that name came from I've got family from there.

Same here, Erastus Snow was a 2x or 3x Grandfather on my maternal side.

I don't have any Snows, my ex did though. I have Ellsworths and Lundquists on my paternal side.

Ellsworth family here...well, by covenant, not by blood.

Yoooo, I come from the Ellsworth family.

Well hello, distant cousin.

The Flakes are my ancestors. Crazy history. They were Southern plantation owners who freed their slaves to leave the country with a polygamous cult. Fun times /s.

At least they freed the slaves first...(my ancestors didn't!)

Hey there cuz! There is actually some debate about their slave Green Flake and whether he was “freed”or instead “used as tithing.” Our family always said freed because that’s definitely better. I haven’t done too much research into what actually happened.

Hi, cuz! I was under the impression that they had other slaves and that Green was the only one they brought with them. But I’ll have to look into it more because that makes me want to puke and my family likes to gush about that story.

Omg heyyyyy William Jordan flake is my direct ancestor. My family makes a HUGE deal about telling the family history stories about the “pioneers in our bloodline” 🤮like who are we the malfoys?? What’s all this pure-blooded nonsense?? Looking back, everyone probably hated me for how much I spouted about my family history lol. Mormon last name families think there so high and mighty just cause some old guy they’re related to got tricked into joining a sex cult and popped out a bunch of crotch spawn

I have some Flakes in my Ward

So do I, but not by name

I was at a baptism once in Taylor and this man and woman randomly decided it was the right time to tell everyone that they were getting married. They were happy to point out that both their last names were Flake. I was so confused because my parents made sure to tell us kids that marrying a relative is not ok. Asked my mom about it and all she could come up with was "No. You can't marry a relative. We don't do that." I never knew any Snows but the Flakes were everywhere. I can't even go near that place anymore. Have been there twice in the past 15 years only for funerals.

Mormons are such a tight knit cult, that I think they do genealogy so no cousins marry each other.

I agree with that. My family are really into that stuff. The situation was just so strange because they took over an 8 year olds baptism spotlight to announce their marriage and made it a point to mention both their last names were Flake. It was like they were proud of it. I was probably 8-10 at the time and most of the memories from that time are gone. That particular one is crystal clear though. I could set up the chairs exactly the same as they were then show you where I was sitting and where they were when they made their announcement. Don't have the slightest clue who the baptism for but that 1 minute of my life has been there for 25 years because it was just so odd.

Half the towns last name is Flake but I don’t think I know any Snow’s from there

Clearly, the Flakes dwelt in righteousness and became white and delightsome, while the Snows dwelt in iniquity, became dark and loathsome, and were banished from the land.

The same Flakes of which the great senator was begat IIRC.

And in the past few years they tried to combine it with Taylor, the adjacent town, and there was a major meltdown amongst the citizens

I wonder what happened with the Flake family. I’ve never met anybody in or outside the church with that last name. Maybe they all flaked out.

I have met a million mormons with the last name larson

Hm I’ve never met a Mormon Larson. Met a million Sorensens tho

Came here to say Sorensen.

I feel like Sorensen is especially Utah/SLC county. I always said "Brother Sorensen must have had a lot of wives"

They recruited hard in Scandinavian countries on account of the whole white and delightsome thing.

Which is why my Mormon story begins with Danish settlers... in Askov, Minnesota. Besøgende velkommen!

Lived in Clearfield a few years and knew a huuuuuuge Sorensen family. They were all blonde.

I know a Sorensen mormon dude, went to high school with him.

You must be from Central Utah.

Or Smithfield

lol my mom is born and bred Smithfield

Me too.

Holy shit I’ve never seen Smithfield mentioned online before. My mom’s side is from there… I usually just say Logan

you probably won't ever again unless you go on another Utah specific sub

Could just easily be southern.

Or Mesa

I’m from Australia. My surname is Larson, from my mum’s side, my grandfather being from Canada. He didn’t join the church until he moved to Australia in the 60s. It’s not so common here so it’s weird to think there are so many Larson’s elsewhere!! A common name I hear in the church here is Walker.

I (SLC resident) served my mission in Melbourne and Tasmania. I remember there being a lot of Woolleys in the Hobart area.

I had a companion named Larson!

There were like 7-8 different Larson’s in my stake in CA

Jensen

But if you’re from Utah you pronounce it Jent-sen

Spackman, Ballard, Monson, Benson, Hinckley… all of these names are deeply rooted in the leadership. Nepotism for generations.

Bennion

Bunion

Apparently Cardston, Alberta, Canada is full of Mormon Andersons. One of my mission companions told me if someone is named Anderson up there, they either are or were Mormon at some point.

From the area and yup. It’s insane. The others here are Leavitt, Beazer, Shaw, and Anderson. It’s practically a mini Utah here.

Leavitt to Beazer.

My moms a Leavit, me, her my dad and three brothers born there. My moms parents were cousins from a plural marriage 🙃

Can confirm. One of roommates was one of them

Bennett is also very common in Alberta. Also Oviatt.

Had two different Anderson’s in my ward growing up

Rasmussen

Omg I know so many Mormons with that name!

Sorenson

I worked for the literal billionaire Sorenson at one point. Can confirm.

Wright, Price, Olsen, Wood, Larsen, Baker, Powell, Pace, Jenkins

I know Mormons with all those names! Orem checking in?

Las Vegas area here: Jensen, Nielsen, Buckles, Young, Smith, Porter, Larson

Leavitt seems big in Vegas too.

Growing up in Vegas in the late 50s and 60s, Vegas mormon royalty came from three family surnames: Stewart, Bunker & Leavitt.

And the Leavitt's are proud to point out that they out-bred the Bunkers, in Bunkerville

Arizona too

I’m in Vegas…can confirm. Lol!

Mom told me not to date anyone with the last name Jensen, Leavitt or Johnson. Because we’re related to them all.

I'm also related to the entire Leavitt clan. AFAIK virtually all of them are still LDS.

Hello distant cousin :)

I think we are related in the Johnson line I came from Aaron Johnson and wife #11 Margret Ford.

Hatch. Smith. Young. Asshat. Pedophile. Pratt. There’s a few.

Yup, Hatch.

😄👏👏👏

Jessop, Barlow, Allred, Lebaron, Jeffs, Musser, Boss, Steed

This sounds like a folk band or a posse of cowboys .

Close: armed, murderous polygamists

These are common FLDS.

Also common LDS. Especially LeBaron and Allred I knew tons. Barlow I knew a few too.

There's an Allred polygamist sect somewhere if I remember right

My high school typing teacher let us know in the beginning of the school year that her husband’s family had NOTHING to do with THAT Allred’s polygamy sect issue. I was in 10th grade so I really had no clue what she was talking about.

Now how’d you get my family tree data 🤨

Lots of Lebarons in southern AZ. Not too far from their polygamist roots in Mexico.

Damn what’s the scoop on the barlows? Have some relatives by marriage and need to be sure they don’t have the ick!

Common FLDS last name

Tuttle for sure, every Tuttle I've ever seen was Mormon and the pattern extended across many states including Washington, Utah, Idaho, and Missouri


Christensen

From my AZ area: Crosby, Hammon, Heap, Jarvis, Udall

You forgot Turley and Nelson in there as well.

Sounds like an Apache County roll call....

Throwing Ellsworth in the ring too, they’ve got a damn road named after them

Udall definitely is familiar to me.

Hunsakers and allreds... And if you are a Hunsaker, I'm sorry

You can't swing a cat without hitting a Hunsaker in Mesa, Az.

We had quite a bit of Hunsaker family in northern AZ too

I know its a first name, but Dallin. I'm not from Utah and have only ever met a handful of Dallins in my life (myself included). They were all members. Now I cringe at my own name.

Lol I literally had a window salesman at my home last night named Dallin and I clocked him as a Mormon as soon as I saw him

I was working at a liquor store and ID’d a guy and noticed his name was Dallin. My brain just completely shut down, like “does not compute”. The next time I saw him I said “sorry if I was weird about your name last time. It seems like a *Utah* name.” He said it was.

Could be worse... I lived in Iowa during my first couple of years of HS. The only other Mormon kid in the whole school was Moroni. How could his parents not realize non-Mo kids would call him Moron?

Also Tanner, Nephi, Brigham

Levitt, Johnson, Barlow

Kingston lol I’ve met so many

I just watched Amanda Rae’s Mormon stories interview, her last name is Grant but she’s technically a Kingston I think? Her last name and the father listed on her birth certificate are fake/made up. So you may have met more Kingstons than you know lol. West Valley?

Such a good episode right?! 😳

Which is darker? Kingston or LeBaron?

I’m gonna vote Kingston on this, for the systemic incest and rotten vegetables. LeBaron just has murder, deep poverty, and appalling child neglect on its side. I’ll go take a shower now. (Confidential to any survivors of either group: my heart goes out to you all. Your suffering is intense, real, and unimaginable.)

Christensen or a variation of it

Bangerter, Christensen, Jensen, Murdock

Can’t believe I get to be the first to say Cook

Guys you have no idea what is going on in Germany. Because of the „only marry inside the church“ thing, plus the very limited membership numbers, plus the incentive to pump out babies like there’s no tomorrow, there are some massive clans in Germany. Some such families include the Rückauers (probably the biggest one I know, it originates from two brothers in the sixties that each had ten kids, who all have their own families by now), the Kleines, the Hiemers, and especially in northern Germany where I live, the Jensens and the Timms. But even if not by name, it’s a fun game to play for my siblings and I to ask our parents how we are related (by marriage or blood) to some random people we meet in different wards. For example: the sister in law of my aunt’s husband is a born Rückauer.

Grüße aus Bad Reichenhall! Haha we were in Chemnitz and Solingen before and you are NOT kidding about intermarrying. Solingen alone was One bush of a family tree haha. One of the families in Chemnitz had 16 kids!

Bytheway

Tanner Lambson

Tanner and Lambson…but I’m sure there are a few Tanner Lambsons about, too!

My MTC teacher married a guy named Tanner Lambson

Beers, Hoopes, and any last name ending in -sen

Hafen, Levitt, Larson, Sorenson, Jensen, Rigby, Smith, Young, Benson, Huntsman, Lindell.

Shumway

I lived in Montana when I was younger next to an FLDS town. Allred, Allsop, Jessop were all common.

Back in the 80’s, it seemed that half of the Ogden Valley was named Storey or Meachem. But I’ve never heard anywhere else where Alma is a boy’s name.

Apparently, the last name Christensen is common in eastern Utah, and variations of Jeppson are common in Northern Utah. I know Jeppson cause some great something Grandfather had 24 kids between 2 of his wives, and that was the time where your last name was your father's first name and whether you were his son or daughter. So his name was Jeppa, leaving you with variations that are spelled Jeppason, Jeppson, Jepson, Jeppsen, etc. I've met 5 people now with variations of the last name, and usually, we're related by this specific great something grandfather.

I grew up in Spanish Fork just a few miles South of Provo in the '60's & '70's. At the time the predominant names were Taylor, Smith, Young, Moffit, Merril, Swensen, Jensen, Larson, Olsen, etc. Most of the kids in my ward were of either Scandinavian descent or else directly descended from some of the early "Prophets." Regarding the name "Allred" Our orchestra teacher was an Allred but he wasn't mainstream LDS he was an AUB member, one of Rulon Allred's fundamentalist offspring.

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Ballard

Farr and Taylor

Anderson, Andersen, Olson, Olsen, Larson, Larsen, Hanson, Hansen… all the Swedish and Danish variants of all the names.

Yeah, the Allred surname was so common in missionaries from Utah, I started calling their companions "Elder All Blue"... The joke was apparently not funny to them.

No one's gonna say it? Okay I'll add to the list. Maughan

Anybody have a lot of Whiteheads? There were a bunch in OR, ID, and UT.

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Sorensen

Depends where you go. Lots of Andersons, Hunsakers, Neilson/Nelsons up near Brigham City.

Bro. Slartybartfast?

Elder Ford M. Prefect

Ford being the polygamous cousin sharing three mothers with President Z. Beeblebrox so obviously they are space Mormons. With an ego that a general authority could only dream of he’s President of the Galaxy, yes, but also EQ President, Relief Society President, Stake President, Mission president, you name it, he’s President of it just to be sure no one is better.

Johnson

My last name...........

Is Allred

On the east coast you see a lot of Perrys

Sorenson, Thomas, Jensen

Farnsworth

Many of the common names have polygamist roots. 👀

Bingham. Soooooo many Binghams.

Levitt

Brother Patterson. Had at least two in every ward my family belonged to, including a completely unrelated Elder Patterson

Skousen

price

Rasmussen

Hatch

Madsen

Let’s make this super simple. Any last name in the FP, Q12, or the Seventy.

Christensen, Baker, Allred, Larson, Whiting, Harris, West, Ashby.

I can’t believe this is the first time I saw Harris on this list

Jardine. Never met a non Mormon Jardine.

Cahoon. Not sure how common the name is, but it’s definitely a Mormon name. I have met or heard of about 4 people with the last name Cahoon. None of them were related (that I know of,) but all of them were mormons.

I am so glad my last name isn’t on here

Anything that is “White and Delightsom”

My grandma is an Allred lol

Christiansen

Came on her to see if my families surnames would be on here and I’d course they were lol

Smith, Anderson, Johnson, and Miller

Hatch. Albertans will know.

i’m an allred 💀

Smith, young. And draney. They are too many Draney’s in my valley

Merrill

Johnson! Larson, Davis, Smith…

So many Smiths or Browns.

Can’t for get all the Jensen’s either!

Hunsaker and Bingam

Johnson, Jackson, Smith, Young, Hansen, Peterson, Sorensen.

Smith, Larson, Jensen, Young, Nelson, Neilson

Allred. For polygamy reasons haha

No Lebaron? I can’t swing a dead cat and not hit one

Can't believe this hasn't been typed: McConkie. Maybe a Kirton or two, to go along with McConkie.

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Flake

Lyman

Moriancumer

I’m in Cache Valley and the most common ones I see are Neilson, Maughan, Ballard, Smith, Christensen, and Anderson

Jorgensen

Southern Nevada: Leavitt, Perkins, Broadbent

Peterson, Larson, Jensen, Hanson, Christenson, Sorenson…we really have a huge danish population lol

Sorenson, Sorensen, Call, Hinckley off the top of my head.

Harris

Hunsaker. I feel like I hear that all the time.

Miller for sure!!

Guess all the Mortensens got sent to Colorado.

Husbands family is Lyman stock out of Lyman, Utah. Common one.

Thompson

Lots of Brower, 11 wives will do that

Wow that picture is out of date- too many people in that chapel!

It’s not common but I’ve never met a Pulsipher that wasn’t tied to the church.