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. UK most common surname ranking This ranking reports the thousand most common surnames in the United Kingdom. Xu 26 million.

You can see the rank position the surname and the number of places found. In the United States Australia Great Britain and many other English-speaking countries the most popular last name is Smith. 16 2016 421 PM.

Smith 30 million. A world ranking is only approximate because some countries do not provide a specific number of people who bear a certain surname. 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.

The most unpopular girls names according to Bounty 1. In the 2010 US census 2376206 Americans were identified with the last name of Smith. In the Top 1000 names by number of births these came in very last.

Top 1000 surnames ranking. 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. Li 57 million.

There are 1050 people named James Bond 110 people named Harry Potter 470. Wang 76 million. There were 162253 last names recorded 100 times or more by the.