Most popular family names

Family names can be unique or come in large numbers. In different countries some names are the most popular. Here is the listing (alphabetical by country names):

• Australia
  • Dundee?

• China (based on 1990 statistics in PRC)

Chinese family names come in large numbers. In the 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of the sample of 174,900 persons, over 500 other names accounted for the remainder.

1. (王) Wang2 (#1)
2. (陈) Chen2
3. (李) Li3
4. (张) Zhang1
5. (刘) Liu2
6. (杨) Yang2
7. (黄) Huang2
8. (吴) Wu2
9. (林) Lin2
10. (周) Zhou1
11. (叶) Ye4
12. (赵) Zhao4
13. (吕) Lu3
14. (徐) Xu2
15. (孙) Sun1
16. (朱) Zhu1
17. (高) Gao1
18. (马) Ma3
19. (梁) Liang2
20. (郭) Guo1

• France
  • Noir
  • Blanc

• Germany
  • Müller
  • Schwarz

• Great Britain
  • Smith
  • Black

• Ireland (top 20[1])

1. Murphy (#1)
2. Kelly
3. O'Sullivan
4. Walsh
5. Smith
6. O'Brien
7. Byrne
8. Ryan
9. O'Connor
10. O'Neill
11. O'Reilly
12. Doyle
13. McCarthy?
14. Gallagher
15. O'Doherty
16. Kennedy
17. Lynch
18. Murray
19. Quinn
20. Moore

• Italy
  • ???
  • ???

• Poland
  • Kowalski
  • Nowak

• Russia
  • Tscherkasov
  • Dougorookiy

• Sweden
  • Johanson

• United States - see [Census data] (Numbers in parenthesis are percentage of population with that name.)

1. Smith (1.006%, #1)
2. Johnson (0.810%)
3. Williams (0.699%)
4. Jones (0.621%)
5. Brown (0.621%)
6. Davis (0.480%)
7. Miller (0.424%)
8. Wilson (0.339%)
9. Moore (0.312%)
10. Taylor (0.311%)
11. Anderson (0.311%)
12. Thomas (0.311%)
13. Jackson (0.310%)
14. White (0.279%)
15. Harris (0.275%)
16. Martin (0.273%)
17. Thompson (0.269%)
18. Garcia (0.254%)
19. Martinez (0.234%)
20. Robinson (0.233%)

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