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Lists of most common surnames in North American countries

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This article contains lists of the most common surnames in some of the countries of North America, including one transcontinental country. Countries are arranged in alphabetical order.

Canada

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Top 10 common surnames in Canada[1]
Rank Surname Number
1 Smith 192,145
2 Brown 108,859
3 Tremblay 106,668
4 Martin 91,680
5 Roy 90,417
6 Gagnon 85,120
7 Lee 83,424
8 Wilson 82,768
9 Johnson 79,492
10 MacDonald 78,766

Québec

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Top 10 common surnames in Quebec as of 2006.[2]

Rank Surname % of pop
1 Tremblay 1.08%
2 Gagnon 0.790%
3 Roy 0.753%
4 Côté 0.624%
5 Bouchard 0.530%
6 Gauthier 0.522%
7 Morin 0.498%
8 Lavoie 0.458%
9 Fortin 0.449%
10 Gagné 0.448%

Costa Rica

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Most common surnames in Costa Rica as of 2007.[3]

# Surname Persons % of pop.
1 Hernández
2 Mora
3 Rodríguez
4 González
5 Jiménez
6 Morales
7 Sánchez
8 Ramírez
9 Pérez
10 Calderón
11 Gutiérrez
12 Rojas
13 Vargas
14 Torres
15 Salas
16 Segura
17 Valverde
18 Villalobos
19 Araya
20 Herrera
21 López
22 Madrigal
Total pop. (2008) 4,016,173 100.00

Cuba

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Most common surnames in Cuba.[4]

Rank Surname Number
1 Rodríguez 301,136
2 Pérez 300,189
3 González 262,311
4 Hernández 215,593
5 García 208,965
6 Martínez 148,674
7 Díaz 136,364
8 Fernández 134,470
9 López 127,525
10 Álvarez 101,010

Dominican Republic

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# Surname Adults % of adults Origin
1 Rodríguez 225,321 Spanish
2 Pérez 158,059 Spanish
3 Martínez 141,259 Spanish
4 García 137,124 Spanish
5 Reyes 104,892 Spanish
6 Sánchez 104,392 Spanish
7 Díaz 95,106 Spanish
8 Peña 94,396 Spanish
9 Jiménez 92,978 Spanish
10 Ramírez 92,863 Spanish
11 Hernández 91,080 Spanish
12 Rosario 89,630 Spanish
13 González 85,757 Spanish
14 Santana 81,973 Portuguese/Spanish
15 Núñez 79,374 Spanish
16 Castillo 78,338 Spanish
17 de la Cruz 76,977 Spanish
18 Cruz 64,613 Portuguese/Spanish
19 Guzmán 63,073 Spanish
20 Gómez 62,310 Spanish
21 Santos 60,613 Spanish/Portuguese
22 López 59,566 Spanish
23 Fuentes 58,518 Spanish
24 Vásquez 56,149 Spanish
25 De Los Santos 54,634 Spanish
26 Mejía 51,605 Spanish
27 Ponce 49,952 Spanish
28 Fernández 49,712 Spanish
29 Vargas 49,353 Portuguese/Spanish
30 Montes 48,574 Spanish
Total pop.

El Salvador

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Most common surnames in El Salvador as of 2005.[5]

# Surname Number of people % of population
1 Hernández
2 Martínez
3 López
4 García
5 Rodríguez
6 Flores
7 Pérez
8 Ramírez
9 González
10 Rivera
11 Vásquez
12 Cruz
13 Mejía
14 Rivas
15 Sánchez
16 Reyes
17 Díaz
18 Ramos
19 Gómez
20 Portillo
21 Escobar
22 Orellana
23 Romero
24 Aguilar
25 Alvarado
Total population (2007) 5,744,113[6] 100.00

Guatemala

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Most common surnames in Guatemala as of 2015.[7]

# Surname Persons % of pop.
1 López 371,525 2.5%
2 García 285,670 1.9%
3 Morales 228,167 1.5%
4 Hernández 222,755 1.5%
5 Pérez 209,963 1.4%
6 González 208,795 1.4%
7 Rodríguez 135,978 0.9%
8 De León 134,010 0.9%
9 Ramírez 131,796 0.9%
10 Martínez 123,186 0.8%
11 Castillo 116,298 0.8%
12 Estrada 115,252 0.8%
13 Marroquín 113,961 0.8%
14 Gómez 110,824 0.7%
15 Vásquez 102,153 0.7%
16 Méndez 98,462 0.7%
17 Reyes 95,449 0.6%
18 Díaz 94,403 0.6%
19 Aguilar 94,096 0.6%
20 Velásquez 89,975 0.6%
First 20 3,082,718 20.7%
Total population (2015) 14,918,999[8] 100%

Mexico

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Below are the most common surnames of Mexico. All of the surnames listed are of Spanish origin.[9]

Rank Surname Number
1 Hernández 5,526,929
2 García 4,129,360
3 Martínez 3,886,887
4 González 3,188,693
5 López 3,148,024
6 Rodríguez 2,744,179
7 Pérez 2,746,468
8 Sánchez 2,234,625
9 Ramírez 2,070,723
10 Flores 1,392,707
11 Gómez 989,295
12 Torres 841,966
13 Díaz 811,553
14 Vásquez 806,894
15 Cruz 800,874
16 Morales 771,796
17 Gutiérrez 748,789
18 Reyes 738,320
19 Ruíz 708,718
20 Jiménez 670,453
21 Mendoza 613,683
22 Aguilar 611,904
23 Ortíz 576,989
24 Álvarez 557,332
25 Castillo 553,799
26 Romero 540,922
27 Moreno 539,927
28 Chávez 517,392
29 Rivera 508,022
30 Ramos 455,728
31 Herrera 451,226
32 Medina 431,518
33 Vargas 427,854
34 Castro 419,216
35 Méndez 410,239
36 Guzmán 392,284
37 Fernández 385,741
38 Juárez 384,929
39 Muñoz 376,633
40 Ortega 372,471
41 Salazar 368,231
42 Rojas 365,457
43 Guerrero 361,557
44 Contreras 358,521
45 Luna 357,578
46 Domínguez 348,182
47 Garza 335,829
48 Velásquez 331,510
49 Estrada 324,103
50 Soto 306,227
51 Cortez 301,954
52 Lara 298,034
53 Espinoza 289,842
54 Vega 285,864
55 Ávila 284,530
56 Cervantes 276,101
57 Sandoval 273,091
58 Carrillo 267,333
59 Alvarado 266,993
60 Silva 265,553
61 León 260,246
62 Ríos 260,141
63 Navarro 258,408
64 Delgado 254,273
65 Márquez 248,933
66 Campos 246,709
67 Ibarra 241,343
68 Solís 240,008
69 Rosas 237,339
70 Miranda 233,910
71 Camacho 233,858
72 Valdez 232,680
73 Cárdenas 230,848
74 Orozco 228,963
75 Aguirre 228,754
76 Mejía 227,392
77 Acosta 224,385
78 Padilla 223,205
79 Robles 222,472
80 Núñez 222,153
81 Peña 220,868
82 Cabrera 220,647
83 Rosales 218,935
84 Molina 217,049
85 Pacheco 212,981
86 Castañeda 212,078
87 Fuentes 210,342
88 Valenzuela 210,221
89 Rangel 209,232
90 Ayala 208,964
91 Meza 207,662
92 Nava 203,308
93 Valencia 198,634
94 Maldonado 195,043
95 Ochoa 192,341
96 Serrano 185,071
97 Tapia 183,351
98 Salinas 183,098
99 Suárez 182,020
100 Zamora 181,835

United States

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All figures are for the 2000 United States census, except for the 1990 Rank column, which is for the 1990 United States census.

The distribution of U.S. surnames reflects the history of immigration into the country. Many immigrants from non-English-speaking countries Anglicized their names. Some examples are the popular Swedish name Johansson, which was frequently changed to Johnson, and the German Müller, which became Miller. Some very common Swedish names were so similar that only a minor change of spelling was necessary, such as Andersson and Jonsson, which is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom. British surnames such as Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones are also common among people of non-British descent, such as African Americans due to slavery.[citation needed] Garcia and Martinez represent the rapid growth of several Hispanic communities in the United States.

According to the table below, from the 2000 U.S. census, 17.11% of Americans have a surname among the top 100. On the other hand, 13.97% of Americans have a surname that occurs fewer than 100 times in the entire population. The census found the most common surname in the United States – Smith – had fewer than 2.4 million occurrences (making up 0.84% of the general population) and that more than 150,000 surnames would be required to reach more than 89.8% of the US population.[10][11]

The U.S Census Bureau had generated the list of top 1,000 surnames according to the 2010 U.S. census. In the accompanied list of top 10 surnames the #10 is Martinez displacing Wilson.[12] This reflects the anticipated population shift in the United States.[13]

During the 2000 U.S. census, the top one 100 surnames in the U.S. were:[14][15][16]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Most Common Last Names In Canada". Forebears. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Les 1 000 premiers noms de famille selon le rang, Québec". stat.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Institut de la statistique du Québec. 2006-05-05. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  3. ^ "Conozca los nombres más curiosos del país". Periódico Al Día. June 17, 2007. Archived from the original on February 22, 2009.
  4. ^ "Cuba Genealogy Resources & Vital Records". forebears.co.uk.
  5. ^ "¿Quiénes somos?". El Diario de Hoy. 2005.
  6. ^ CIA (14 July 2022). "El Salvador". CIA World Factbook. Langley, Virginia: CIA.
  7. ^ "¿Piensas que tu apellido es común? Mira los 50 que más se repiten en Guatemala". Publinews (in Spanish). November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 13, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ^ CIA (14 July 2022). "Guatemala". CIA World Factbook. Langley, Virginia: CIA.
  9. ^ Z, Antonio L. (23 April 2008). "Habla para que te conozca: 3 148 024 SEÑORAS Y SEÑORES LÓPEZ".
  10. ^ United States Census Bureau. "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000" Archived 2009-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. 27 September 2011. Accessed 29 March 2012.
  11. ^ Word, David L. & al. "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000" Archived 2010-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. 26 June 2001. Accessed 3 February 2012.
  12. ^ Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census
  13. ^ Frank Nuessel, A Note on the 25 Most Frequent Surnames from the 2000 United States Census Bureau List, doi:10.1080/00277738.2016.1262135
  14. ^ Census.gov. "Frequent Names". 2000.
  15. ^ Sam Roberts (November 17, 2007). "In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
  16. ^ United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). s:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100).

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