The most common surnames in the world are Lee or Li Zhang Wang Nguyen Garcia Gonzalez Hernandez Smith Smirnov and Müller.

Least common last name in the world. Top 1000 surnames ranking. Xu 26 million. In the 2010 US census 2376206 Americans were identified with the last name of Smith.

Wang 76 million. And the most common surnames in the US are roughly as follows. UK most common surname ranking This ranking reports the thousand most common surnames in the United Kingdom.

Occupational surnames linked to common professions such as Smith and Baker enjoyed a natural head-start when last names first started to be recorded in the 13 th and 14 th centuries Henry VIII making it compulsory for marital births to be recorded under the surname of the father. Even with popularity of the Kardashians today the name Kourtney is heading for extinction alongside Mimi and Bonny The most unpopular boys names according to Bounty 1. While Liam gained the number one spot two years ago with a very impressive 19837 babies named knocking Noah down a notch with only 18267 babies named.

There were 162253 last names recorded 100 times or more by the. Unusual names linked to localised topography or more niche. Wu 28 million.

Zhang 68 million. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 151671 different last names and 5163 different first names in common use in the United States.

The most unpopular girls names according to Bounty 1. In the United States Australia Great Britain and many other English-speaking countries the most popular last name is Smith. And according to VividMaps here are the most common surnames around the world.