There have been 2005962 Smiths born in the UK since 1530 while Jones and Williams have been the second and third most common surnames.

Most common first name and surname in the uk. It is one of the most common Indian surnames in Britain with over 100000 bearers in 2011. In the top surname category are Smith Jones and Williams. Other occupational names include Knight Thatcher Squire and Fletcher.

Smith is the most popular surname with one in three 31 per cent of the names listed in the top 100 having it. Name d is an alpha quality product - we get it right for many kinds of names but likely very wrong for others. This map will tell you where your surname is most popular in the UK.

Another common source of surnames are nicknames or descriptive names. General Names in 30-40 Counties Brown Martin Taylor Cook Smith Common Names in 20-29 Counties Chapman Palmer Wood Ellis Rogers Young Regional Names in 10-29 Counties Austen Hammond Miles Russell Bates Harvey Mills Sharp Collins Long Paine Sutton Day Maidstone Marsh Pearson Wells Goodsin May Reeves. Name d maps places in the UK where oneor two surnames have a historically unusually high local population.

Common names of this sort include Leka or Lekaj Alex Gjoni or Gjonaj John Murati Murad Mehmeti Mehmed Hysi typically short for Hussein GjikaGjoka short for Jacob cf Jake Marku Mark KolaKollaNikolla Nicholas Hasani Hassan KristiKristo Luka Lucas Brahimi Abraham from Turkish Sinani Thanasi Athanasius Halili Halil and Abazi Abbas. Jones Williams Brown and Taylor follow respectively. You can try it on your own or add your partners or friends too and well try and map any mutual location.

20 rows England United Kingdom 2016 Oliver. There hasnt been much change in the most popular surnames ranking. Actor Dev Patel has one of the most common Indian surnames in Britain with over 100000 bearers It found 80 of the most common surnames were native to the UK and Ireland among them.

Most Anglo Saxon family names came into common usage between the 12th and 14th centuries and were first. Overall David is the UKs. Another example of a recent immigrant surname is Patel.