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Look up the house of Lords extent, on something like wi::$;$;$;IA and whilst enjoying their fabulous portraiture, just mentally filter life Baronories out and at Earl level is the really fancy people. I have lots of precivilwar holders of some common earldoms (Sw and Surrey plus Essex and Kent) which is probably the case for many USA people too as rape was incredibly common as an evil form of torture on top of torture used in the antebellum. So if you are from USA and have mostly English ancestors or knowledge of their heritage well even if not from pleasant circumstances, that's some of these earldoms' non daúphìnic second degree related people who had the same surnames at birth lest bastard laws couldn't be bought out like John Russell.

I don't think of surnames as fancy. People have gone bat crap crazy naming their kids.