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):

• China (based on 1990 statistics in PRC)

Chinese family names come in large numbers. In the 1990 study, the top 200 family names covers 96% of the sample of 174,900 persons, the next 500 names covers the remaining 4%.

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 ten[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

• 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%)

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