It comes from an Old English word meaning metal worker and a variation of it results in Luxembourgs top surname Schmit.

Most popular names per country. List of most common surnames in Asia. Wu 28 million. List of common Chinese surnames.

20 21 NSW Registry of Births Deaths Marriages. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences rank 2 to the name with the next highest. - Most popular boys names.

Retrieved June 17 2006. For example Ghanas list has Abena Akosua and Kofi which are Akan day names traditionally given to babies born on a particular day of the week. Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year.

Zhang 68 million. Xu 26 million. Liu 52 million.

Singh 37 million. Devi 69 million. Wang 76 million.

Smith appeared to be the most dominant last name across the globe being the most common in English-speaking nations such as the US Canada England Scotland New Zealand and Australia. List of Vietnamese surnames. List of most common surnames in North America.