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Family names can be unique or come in large numbers. In different countries some names are more common than others. This is a listing of common surnames(alphabetical by country names):
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- Peeters 33,273
- Janssens 31,529
- Maes 25,654
- Jacobs 20,229
- Mertens 18,927
- Willems 18,604
- Claes 16,822
- Goossens 16,202
- Wouters 15,950
- De Smet 14,491
The ten most common names in Belgium, shown above, are all of Flemish origin. The ten most common names in the Walloon region are:
- Dubois 9.804
- Lambert 9.099
- Martin 7.266
- Dupont 6.688
- Dumont 6.614
- Leclercq 6.431
- Simon 6.285
- Laurent 5.965
- Lejeune 5.595
- Renard 5.581
- Álvares
- Amaral
- Andrade
- Antunes
- Azevedo
- Bernardes
- Borges
- Branco
- Brito
- Cabral
- Câmara
- Cardoso
- Carvalho
- Castro
- Cavalcanti or Cavalcante
- Costa
- Couto
- Cruz
- da Conceição
- da Mata
- de Jesus
- Dias
- do Nascimento
- Fagundes
- Fernandes
- Ferreira
- Garcia
- Gil
- Gomes
- Henriques
- Jayne or Jaime
- Lima
- Lins
- Lopes
- Martins
- Medeiros
- Mendes
- Mendonça
- Menezes
- Moniz or Muniz
- Moraes or Morais
- Moreira
- Neves
- Nogueira
- Oliveira
- Pereira
- Pinto
- Pires
- Rego
- Reis
- Ribeiro
- Rodrigues
- Sá
- Sanches
- Santos
- Santos
- Serrano
- Silva
- Silveira
- Soares
- Sousa
- Tavares
- Torres
Most of Brazilian surnames derive from Portuguese surnames. The Portuguese started colonizing Brazil in the 16th century and brought with them many Black African slaves who were forced to work in Sugarcane plantations and other intensive labor activities. Since these slaves were considered property of their masters, they usually adopted their master’s surname, as well as their offspring. When someone's surname was unknown, not verifiable or considered unpronounceable in Portuguese language, their surname was usually registered as "da Costa" when living near the sea coast or "da Silva" (from the forest) if lived inland. The surname "dos Santos" (from the saints) was given to orphan children. This explains why these names (da Costa, da Silva, dos Santos) are so common and why, although the high degree of miscegenation between Portuguese, African and local Indigenous people, Portuguese names are so common. Other common surnames of Portuguese origin, such as Pires, Rodrigues, Lopes, Mendes, Fernandes - notice that they end with -es, not -ez as in Spanish, are also still very common both in Portugal and Brazil. Also many "New Christians" (converted Jews) who adopted names after trees (Pereira, Oliveira), geographic sites (Ribeiro, Matos), or animals (Coelho, Peixe), came from Portugal to Brazil to escape the Inquisition period in Europe - note that these names are not Jewish in origin and are not a sign of Jewish ancestry per se. A new wave of European immigration came to Brazil in the late 19th and 20th centuries, mainly during and after the 1st and 2nd World War, and was primarily composed by Portuguese, Italian, German and Polish searching for better living conditions in the “New World”, as well as Europeans of Jewish origin who were escaping Nazi persecutions. The myth that middle and upper classes in Brazil generally have non-Portuguese family names, especially Italian, German and Jewish from more recent immigrations is totally false and easily verifiable when analyzing the surnames of several Brazilian presidents. These types of misstatements are a consequence of an uncomfortable past related to issues such as Portuguese colonization and slavery, and are created to give the false idea of the small influence of Portugal in the actual culture of Brazil.
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- Иванов (Ivanov)
- Петров (Petrov)
- Георгиев (Georgiev)
- Димитров (Dimitrov)
- Стоянов (Stoyanov)
- Андреев (Andreev)
- Михайлов (Mihaylov)
- Николов (Nikolov)
- Василев (Vassilev)
- Тодоров (Todorov)
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The 50 most popular surnames in Quebec
- Tremblay (1.13%)
- Gagnon (0.82%)
- Roy (0.77%)
- Côté (0.74%)
- Bouchard (0.56%)
- Gauthier (0.55%)
- Morin (0.51%)
- Lavoie (0.49%)
- Fortin (0.47%)
- Gagné (0.47%)
- Pelletier (0.45%)
- Bélanger (0.44%)
- Bergeron (0.41%)
- Lévesque (0.41%)
- Simard (0.38%)
- Girard (0.37%)
- Leblanc (0.37%)
- Boucher (0.35%)
- Ouellet (0.34%)
- Caron (0.32%)
- Beaulieu (0.31%)
- Poirier (0.31%)
- Dubé (0.31%)
- Cloutier (0.31%)
- Fournier (0.30%)
- Lapointe (0.30%)
- Lefebvre (0.29%)
- Poulin (0.28%)
- Nadeau (0.28%)
- Martin (0.27%)
- St-Pierre (0.27%)
- Martel (0.26%)
- Grenier (0.26%)
- Landry (0.26%)
- Lessard (0.26%)
- Leclerc (0.25%)
- Bédard (0.25%)
- Bernier (0.24%)
- Couture (0.24%)
- Richard (0.23%)
- Michaud (0.23%)
- Desjardins (0.23%)
- Hébert (0.22%)
- Blais (0.22%)
- Turcotte (0.22%)
- Savard (0.22%)
- Lachance (0.22%)
- Parent (0.22%)
- Demers (0.21%)
- Gosselin (0.21%)
Percentage of total population: 17.82%
Sources: Institut de la statistique du Québec, Quelques Statistiques sur les Noms de Famille and Les 6 000 premiers noms de famille par ordre alphabétique, Québec
Main articles: Chinese family name, List of common Chinese surnames
- (based on statistics published in 姓氏人名用字分析統計 Beijing, PRC, 1990)
- Chinese family names come in large numbers. In the 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of the random sample of 174,900 persons, over 500 other names accounted for the remainder. The sample was taken from 1982 census data.
- (王) Wáng
- (陳) Chén
- (李) Lǐ
- (張) Zhāng
- (劉) Liú
- (楊) Yáng
- (黃) Huáng
- (吳) Wú
- (林) Lín
- (周) Zhōu
- (葉) Yè
- (趙) Zhào
- (呂) Lǚ
- (徐) Xú
- (孫) Sūn
- (朱) Zhū
- (高) Gāo
- (馬) Mǎ
- (梁) Liáng
- (郭) Guō
- In a different study (1987) which combined data from mainland China and Taiwan (sample size of 570,000 persons), the outcome was a bit different. The number one Chinese family name was (李) Lǐ at 7.9% of the sample, followed by (王) Wáng at 7.4% and (張) Zhāng at 7.1%; the study showed that the top 19 names covered 55.6% and the top 100 names covered 87% of the sample. Chinese family names distributed differently according to regions. The north was dominated by (李) Lǐ, (王) Wáng, (張) Zhāng, and (劉) Liú; the south was dominated by (陳) Chén, (趙) Zhào, (黃) Huáng, (林) Lín, and (吳) Wú. There were over 450 family names in Beijing, but there were fewer than 300 family names in Guangdong and Fujian. Apparently the distribution of the statistics was significantly affected by the bias from the Taiwanese data.
Croatia
- Novák (70 504)
- Svoboda (52 088)
- Novotný (49 962)
- Dvořák (46 099)
- Černý (36 743)
- Procházka (33 274)
- Kučera (31 286)
- Veselý (26 481)
- Horák (25 174)
- Němec (22 795)
- Marek (22 548)
- Pokorný (22 203)
- Pospíšil (22 189)
- Hájek (21 276)
- Jelínek (20 733)
- Král (20 510)
- Růžička (19846)
- Beneš (19 600)
- Fiala (19 121)
- Sedláček (18 484)
Feminized names included (m. Novák - f. Nováková).
Source: Ministry of Interior (as of 2002).
Most popular Danish family names (as of 2004) [1]
- Jensen 303089
- Nielsen 296850
- Hansen 248968
- Pedersen 186913
- Andersen 172894
- Christensen 133033
- Larsen 129662
- Sørensen 124175
- Rasmussen 104130
- Jørgensen 98354
- Petersen 92189
- Madsen 70176
- Kristensen 65074
- Olsen 54044
- Thomsen 40514
- Christiansen 40224
- Poulsen 34203
- Johansen 33120
- Knudsen 31977
- Mortensen 31252
The most popular Danish family names all end with "sen", meaning "son". That means, that for example "Jensen" is "son of Jens", "Poulsen" is "son of Poul". An example: if Hans Petersen's father was Peter Sørensen, Hans' father's name was Peter, and his grandfather's Søren. His son would then be (first name) Hansen. This method of naming children was widely used up to the middle of the 19th century. Sometimes it was also common to give to girls names such as "Jensdatter" or "Poulsdatter", meaning daughter of Jens, or daughter of Poul. These names are now seldom seen in Denmark, but still widely known and used in Iceland (where the ending is -dottir).
Nowadays, the "sen" names have lost their meanings, because women bear them too. It is not common anymore that Hans Petersen's son would be called Hansen, but more likely Petersen, although the old method is still used.
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Source: Population Register Centre, 20 June 2005. Percentages are based on the population of Finland on 21 June 2005.
- Virtanen - 24,204 (0.461%)
- Korhonen - 23,721 (0.452%)
- Nieminen - 21,841 (0.416%)
- Mäkinen - 21,699 (0.414%)
- Mäkelä - 19,674 (0.375%)
- Hämäläinen - 19,518 (0.372%)
- Laine - 18,908 (0.360%)
- Koskinen - 18,058 (0.344%)
- Heikkinen - 17,939 (0.342%)
- Järvinen - 17,381 (0.331%)
Source: [2]
- Martin
- Bernard
- Thomas
- Petit
- Durand
- Richard
- Moreau
- Dubois
- Robert
- Laurent
- Simon
- Michel
- Leroy
- Garcia
- Lefebvre
- Roux
- David
- Bertrand
- Fournier
- Girard
- Bonnet
- Morel
- Rousseau
- Lambert
- Blanc
- data from 1995
- Müller (0.95%)
- Schmidt (0.69%)
- Schneider (0.40%)
- Fischer (0.35%)
- Meyer (0.33%)
- Weber (0.30%)
- Schulz (0.27%)
- Wagner (0.27%)
- Becker (0.27%)
- Hoffmann (0.26%)
- Huber (0.18%)
- Nagy (244663; big, cf.Gross)
- Kovács (228274; smith, cf.Schmidt)
- Tóth (223291; Slovak/Slav)
- Szabó (217066; tailor, cf.Schneider)
- Horváth (Horvát) (201524; Croatian)
- Kiss (Kis) (139919; small, cf.Klein)
- Varga (137398; shoemaker, cf.Schumacher)
- Molnár (112878; miller, cf.Müller)
- Németh (Német) (97715; German, cf.Deutsch)
- Farkas (83755; <first name, meaning "wolf">, cf.Wolf)
- Balogh (79653; left-handed, unskillful)
- Papp (56235; priest)
- Takács (55180; weaver, cloth-maker, cf.Weber)
- Juhász (54267; shepherd, cf.Schäfer)
- Mészáros (42738; butcher, cf.Fleischer)
- Lakatos (41005; locksmith)
- Simon (39881; <first name>)
- Oláh (37147; Romanian)
- Fekete (34755; black, cf.Schwarz)
- Rácz (34518; Serbian)
- Szilágyi (32628; from Szilágy county)
- Fehér (27262; white, cf.Weiss)
- Gál (Gaál) (26557; <first name>)
- Balázs (26158; <first name>)
In Hungary, the surname is placed first (see Eastern order).
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Main article: Indian family name
- Mudaliyar
- Bajaj
- Mathur
- Lekkala
- Paruchuri
- Patel
- Shetty
- Rai
- Menon
- Trivedi
- Ravulapalli
- Pandey
- Kamboj
- Kamboh
- Paranjape
- Bhave
- Thind
- Patnaik
- Verma
- Bhatia
- Singh
- Dua
- Kakkar
- Gera
- Goyal or Goel
- Kamath or Kamat
- Kulkarni
- Sharma or Sarma
- Patel/Patil
- Shah or Shaha
- Lal
- Gupta and Gupte
- Gore
- Karnik
- Ajagaonkar
- Deshpande
- Deshmukh
- Desai
- Patil
- Jadhav
- Shinde
- Bhat
- Rao
- Reddy
- Jain
- Mishra
- Joshi
- Sastri or Shastri
- Iyer
- Iyengar
- Yadhav or Yadav
- Choudhury or Chowdhury
- Doshi
- Nair
- Kaur
- Dubey
- Soni
- Dixit
- Naik
- Vallampati
- Sarbadhikari
- Modi
- Mohite
- Holkar
- Dhekale
- Kale
- Solankar
- Rupnar
- Pillai
- Valladares
- Mandal
- Guha
- Muduthanapally
- Srivatsavaya
- Varma
- Phanse
- Naidu
- Menda
- Agarwal
- Mukherjee
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- top 20.
- Murphy
- Kelly
- O'Sullivan
- Walsh
- Smith
- O'Brien
- Byrne
- Ryan
- O'Connor
- O'Neill
- O'Reilly
- Doyle
- McCarthy
- Gallagher
- O'Doherty
- Kennedy
- Lynch
- Murray
- Quinn
- Moore
Names starting with O' are patronymic.
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- The name Cohen belongs to the members of the ancient family of priests (Kohanim, descendants of Aaron). The name Levi belongs to the members of the family of Levites, descendants of Levi.
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Main article: Japanese name
- (佐藤) Satō
- (鈴木) Suzuki
- (高橋) Takahashi
- (田中) Tanaka
- (渡辺) Watanabe
- (伊藤) Itō
- (山本) Yamamoto
- (中村) Nakamura
- (小林) Kobayashi
- (斎藤) Saitō
- (加藤) Katō
- (吉田) Yoshida
- (山田) Yamada
- (佐々木) Sasaki
- (山口) Yamaguchi
- (松本) Matsumoto
- (井上) Inoue
- (木村) Kimura
- (林) Hayashi
- (清水) Shimizu
- (青木)Aoki
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Main article: List of Korean family names
- 김 (金; Kim, Gim)
- 이 (李; Lee, Yi, I)
- 박 (朴; Park, Pak, Bak)
- 최 (崔; Choi, Choe)
- 정 (鄭; Jung, Chung, Jeong)
- 강 (姜; Gang, Kang)
- 조 (趙; Cho, Jo)
- 윤 (尹; Yoon, Yun)
- 장 (張; Jang, Chang)
- 임 (林; Lim, Im)
- 한 (韓; Han)
- 신 (申; Shin, Sin)
- 서 (徐; Suh, Seo)
- 권 (權; Kwon, Gwon)
- 손 (孫; Son)
- 황 (黃; Whang, Hwang)
- 송 (宋; Song)
- 안 (安; Ahn, An)
- 유 (柳; Yoo, Yu)
- 홍 (洪; Hong)
Korean surnames have a variety of ways of being romanized.
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Literally translated - the diminutive forms of birch, hill and oak.
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Martinez Gonzalez Rodriguez Cruz
Source: GARCÍA, Miriam Para regios...los Martínez Periódico El Norte 18 de marzo de 2003.
The Netherlands
- from the 1947 census
- De Jong 55,256
- De Vries 49,298
- Jansen 49,213
- Van den Berg 37,678 (including Van der Berg and Van de Berg)
- Bakker 37,483
- Van Dijk 36,578
- Visser 34,721
- Janssen 32,824
- Smit 29,783
- Meijer, Meyer 28,256
Source: Meertens Instituut
- Hansen (1.31%)
- Olsen (1.21%)
- Johansen (1.21%)
- Larsen (0.90%)
- Andersen (0.88%)
- Nilsen (0.83%)
- Pedersen (0.82%)
- Kristiansen (0.55%)
- Jensen (0.54%)
- Karlsen (0.50%)
- Johnsen (0.48%)
- Pettersen (0.47%)
- Eriksen (0.44%)
- Berg (0.41%)
- Haugen (0.32%)
- Hagen (0.32%)
- Johannessen (0.31%)
- Andreassen (0.28%)
- Jacobsen (0.27%)
- Halvorsen (0.27%)
Names ending in sen are originally patronymic.
Source: Statistics Norway
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- Cruz
- De la Cruz
- De los Santos
- De los Reyes
- Garcia
- Gonzales
- Lim
- Martinez
- Mendoza
- Mercado
- Santos
- Reyes
- Tan
See also: Polish surnames
- Nowak (203 506)
- Kowalski (139 719)
- Wiśniewski (109 855)
- Wójcik (99 509)
- Kowalczyk (97 796)
- Kamiński (94 499)
- Lewandowski (92 449)
- Zieliński (91 043)
- Szymański (89 091)
- Woźniak (88 039)
- Dąbrowski (86 132)
- Kozłowski (75 962)
- Jankowski (68 514)
- Novachek (66 773)
- Wojciechowski (66 361)
- Kwiatkowski (66 017)
- Krawczyk (64 048)
- Kaczmarek (61 816)
- Piotrowski (61 380)
- Grabowski (58 393)
- Source: Zawadzki J.M, 2002, 1000 Najpopularniejszych nazwisk w Polsce [1000 of the most popular names in Poland], Warsaw: Świat Książki
Portugal
- Álvares
- Amaral
- Andrade
- Antunes
- Azevedo
- Borges
- Branco
- Brito
- Cabral
- Câmara
- Carvalho
- Correa
- Costa
- Couto
- Dias
- Fernandes
- Ferreira
- Gomes
- Henriques
- Lopes
- Martins
- Medeiros
- Mendes
- Mendonça
- Menezes
- Moniz
- Moreira
- Moura
- Neves
- Nogueira
- Oliveira
- Pinto
- Pires
- Pereira
- Reis
- Rego
- Rodrigues
- Santos
- Silva
- Soares
- Sousa
- Tavares
For an exaustive listing of Portuguese family names see this genealogical site
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- Popa (191,938 persons; Slavic, "pop" - "priest")
- Popescu (147,784 persons; "Son of the Priest", Slavic root "pop" - "priest")
- Radu (Slavic, "rad" - "happy")
- Ionescu ("Son of John")
- Şerban
- Matei ("Matthew")
- Stoica
- Gheorghe ("George")
- Constantin ("Constantine")
- Stan ("Stan")
- Dumitrescu ("Son of Demetrius")
- Mihai ("Michael")
- Ioniţă ("Little John")
- Dumitru ("Demetrius")
- Dinu ("Constantine")
- Tudor ("Theodor")
- Dobre (Slavic root "dobro" - "good")
- Barbu ("Bearded one")
- Ştefan ("Stephan")
- Florea ("Flower")
- Ene (variation of "Ion" - John)
- Vasile ("Basil")
- Marin ("Marinus")
- Ghiţă ("Little George")
- Georgescu ("Son of George")
Per Boris Unbegaun of the Oxford University:
- Иванов (Ivanov)
- Васильев (Vasilyev)
- Петров (Petrov)
- Смирнов (Smirnov)
- Михайлов (Mikhailov)
- Федоров (Fyodorov)
- Соколов (Sokolov)
- Яковлев (Yakovlev)
- Попов (Popov)
- Андреев (Andreyev)
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- Petrović (Петровић)
- Jovanović (Јовановић)
- Marković (Марковић)
- Popović (Поповић)
- Nikolić (Николић)
- Vuković (Вуковић)
- Živković (Живковић)
- Đorđević (Ђорђевић)
- Lukić (Лукић)
- Marić (Марић)
- Janković (Јанковић)
- Milovanović (Миловановић)
- Ilić (Илић)
- Obradović (Обрадовић)
- Aleksić (Алексић)
- Gavrilović (Гавриловић)
- Davidović (Давидовић)
- Đurović (Ђуровић)
- Stevanović (Стевановић)
- Stefanović (Стефановић)
- Radović (Радовић)
- Stojanović (Стојановић)
- Source: [3] - Data from December 1999.
- García - 1,378,000 people (3.48%)
- Fernández - 851,000 (2.15%)
- González - 839,000 (2.12%)
- Rodríguez - 804,000 (2.03%)
- López - 796,000 (2.01%)
- Martínez - 788,000 (1.97%)
- Sánchez - 725,000 (1.83%)
- Pérez - 709,000 (1.79%)
- Martín - 459,000 (1.16%)
- Gómez - 440,000 (1.11%)
- Ruiz - 321,000 (0.81%)
- Hernández - 305,000 (0.77%)
- Jiménez - 293,000 (0.74%)
- Díez - 293,000 (0.74%)
- Álvarez - 273,000 (0.69%)
- Moreno - 261,000 (0.66%)
- Muñoz - 241,000 (0.61%)
- Alonso - 206,000 (0.52%)
- Gutiérrez - 170,000 (0.43%)
- Romero - 170,000 (0.43%)
- Navarro - 158,400 (0.40%)
- Torres - 134,600 (0.34%)
- Domínguez - 134,600 (0.34%)
- Gil - 134,600 (0.34%)
- Vázquez - 130,000 (0.33%)
- Serrano - 122,700 (0.31%)
- Ramos - 118,000 (0.30%)
- Blanco - 118,000 (0.30%)
- Sanz - 106,900 (0.27%)
- Castro - 102,900 (0.26%)
- Suárez - 102,900 (0.26%)
- Ortega - 99,000 (0.25%)
- Rubio - 99,000 (0.25%)
- Molina - 99,000 (0.25%)
- Delgado - 95,000 (0.24%)
- Ramírez - 95,000 (0.24%)
- Morales - 95,000 (0.24%)
- Ortiz - 87,120 (0.22%)
- Marín - 83,160 (0.21%)
- Iglesias - 83,160 (0.21%)
Family names ending in -ez are typically patronymic
Popular Chinese surnames - based on a paper published by Statistics Singapore, 2000
- Tan 陈 (陳)
- Lim 林
- Lee 李
- Ng 黃
- Ong 王
- Wong 王
- Goh 吳
- Chua 蔡
- Chan 陈 (陳)
- Koh 许 (許)
- Teo 张 (張)
- Ang 洪
- Yeo 杨 (楊)
- Tay 郑 (鄭)
- Ho 何
- Low 刘 (劉)
- Toh 桌
- Sim 沈
- Chong 张 (張)
- Chia 谢(謝)
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- Johansson (3.3%)
- Andersson (3.2%)
- Karlsson (2.5%)
- Nilsson (2.2%)
- Eriksson (1.7%)
- Larsson (1.6%)
- Olsson (1.4%)
- Persson (1.4%)
- Svensson (1.3%)
- Gustafsson (0.90%)
- Pettersson (0.83%)
- Jonsson (0.72%)
- Jansson (0.63%)
- Hansson (0.54%)
- Bengtsson (0.42%)
- Jönsson (0.42%)
- Petersson (0.37%)
- Carlsson (0.34%)
- Gustavsson (0.32%)
- Magnusson (0.32%)
- Lindberg (0.31%)
- Olofsson (0.30%)
The most common names in Sweden are originally patronymic, which means that the son of e.g. Karl received the surname Karlsson (Karl's son). The daughter received the name Karlsdotter (Karl's daughter). Since the 19th century these names are inherited exactly as in e.g. USA or the United Kingdom and women also receive "son-names". Compare this with the "mac-names" in Scotland. Even though these "son-names" are the most common names in Sweden, a majority of the Swedes have other family names consisting of two random items from nature, for example Lindberg (linden/lime mountain), Bergkvist (mountain twig), Alström/Ahlström (alder stream). Other names like Sjöman (Seaman) and Nyman (Newman) contains professions and adjectives. Because of the greater diversity of these names each specific name is less common than most "son-names". Given the large quantity of citizens of foreign heritage it is a matter of time before their surnames will be present high up in the official statistics, especially when grouped together instead of listed as separate surnames because of slightly different spelling or omitted umlauts etc. Persons with ancestors of noble origin in Sweden often, but not always, have surnames referring to their coat of arms or non-Swedish names.
The following list is for England, Wales, and the Isle of Man, and is based on a survey of the National Health Service Central Register[4]: Note that the Scotland and Northern Ireland population are not included in this data.
- Smith (1.15%)
- Jones (0.94%)
- Williams (0.66%)
- Taylor (0.53%)
- Brown (0.51%)
- Davies (0.48%)
- Evans (0.39%)
- Wilson (0.35%)
- Thomas (0.35%)
- Johnson (0.34%)
- Roberts (0.33%)
- Robinson (0.29%)
- Spiers (0.28%)
- Thompson (0.28%)
- Wright (0.28%)
- Walker (0.27%)
- White (0.27%)
- Edwards (0.27%)
- Hughes (0.26%)
- Green (0.25%)
- Hall (0.25%)
- see Census data
- (Numbers in parentheses are percentage of population with that name.)
- Smith (1.006%)
- Johnson (0.810%)
- Williams (0.699%)
- Jones (0.621%)
- Brown (0.621%)
- Davis (0.580%)
- Miller (0.424%)
- Wilson (0.339%)
- Moore (0.312%)
- Taylor (0.311%)
- Anderson (0.311%)
- Thomas (0.311%)
- Jackson (0.310%)
- White (0.279%)
- Harris (0.275%)
- Martin (0.273%)
- Thompson (0.269%)
- Garcia (0.254%)
- Martinez (0.234%)
- Robinson (0.233%)
- The distribution of family names in the U.S. reflects the history of immigration into the country. Many immigrants from non English speaking countries adopted English family names. Good examples of this is the popular Swedish name Johansson which was frequently changed to Johnson, and the German Müller changed to Miller. Some very common Swedish names were so similar that only a minor change of spelling was necessary, such as Andersson and Jonsson. This is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom.
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