2 JOHNSON Son of John.

Most common american last names. Smith the most common name in every Anglophone country in. The following list of the most commonly occurring surnames in America includes details on each names origin and meaning. While many of the most popular last names werent all that surprising as their owners can surely attest the data did show something super-interesting.

A surname is usually a persons family name or the last name of a person. Garcia jumped in popularity from 18th-most-popular name in 1990 to sixth-most-popular last name in 2010. In the United States Smith was the most popular surname in in 1990 and retained that spot ten years later.

Are you one of the millions of Americans sporting one of these top 100 common last names from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The University of the West of England in Bristol classifies the ever-popular Smith as an English and Scottish. I remembered Jones Moore Pickett Foust Moore Williams Wright Young Erwin Street Sherod Slade Whittaker Fuller Cousins.

Using Census Bureau data 247 Wall Street compiled a list of the top 50 last names in the US. Heres what they found. In the 2010 US census 2376206 Americans were identified with the last name of Smith.

Is your family name on the list. Robinson was the 20th-most-popular name in 1990 but fell off the list as hispanic surnames become more common. 1 SMITH A smith is a craftsman and was used for as an occupational title for many different crafts.

Smith Johnson Williams Jones Brown. On a list of the top 13 most popular full names in the US the majority of the last names were Smith All but one of the most popular female full names have Spanish origins By Ashley Collman. If you are located in the United States it might surprise you that there are no Anglophone names in the list of 5 most common last names in North America.