Hello everyone. Just want to give a quick heads up as to why there are a bunch of removed comments, because people keep asking. Here are some of the removed comments, in their entirety:
Damn it. I need an answer.
WHY IS EVERYTHING REMOVED? Every time I’m genuinely curious :(
Geez, what happened here?
Most of the removed comments are that in different variations. Then there are the RemindMe! comments:
Remind me in 5 days
Which by the way don't often work here because the remind me bot is banned and AutoMod removes remind me posts immediately when they get posted. I think that's also the wrong format for the bot anyway.
There are two comments naming people with these surnames, consisting almost entirely of these names, without actually answering the question as to why theyre relatively rare.
There is one comment which has confused Kanye West's kid's given name for a surnam.
And then there's this "answer":
cuz
So don't worry. As of right now, you are missing absolutely nothing.
We ask that answers in this subreddit be in-depth and comprehensive, and highly suggest that comments include citations for the information. Comments which don't answer the question at all also get removed. So far, there has not been a single serious attempt at answering the question at all, which is why you aren't seeing an answer yet.
Give it time. The post is only 6 hours old. It often takes closer to 12.
Please don't leave additional garbage comments. That will only make the graveyard bigger.
edit: If you'd like to have a discussion about "answered" flair and the like, check for the most recent [meta] thread on that topic. It gets posted every week or two. This isn't the right place for it because, again, its just adding to the comment count with more comments that aren't answers to OP's question.
While we wait on an answer, I thought I'd compare how common these names actually are so we can gain some perspective. Just a quick search on Forebears.io. Not an academic source, to be sure, but I figured it could give us roughly a good idea of the name distribution in 2014 (there are links to other time periods as well). So here is roughly how many people had these surnames in 2014.
In the grand scheme of things, North is not that much more prominent than either South or East, but West is more than six times as popular as any of the others.