101 rows While Smith remains the most common US.

What's the most common first and last name in the world. The site is updated as new data becomes available. Zhang 68 million. Devi 69 million.

Li 57 million. The popularity of names also depends on what part of the world you live in. And according to VividMaps here are the most common surnames around the world.

Surnames in the United States Ranked. Know more such common first names in this AptParenting article and check if your name also features in the list. It includes lists of the common first names and last names the popularity of first names by state and for given years and statistics on ethnicity in the United States.

The names origin is traced to England where it is also the most common surname and is derived from an Old English term smib which means one who works in metal. The most common name in the world is Wang meaning king and is the last name of an estimated 928 million people on Chinas mainland. In the United States Australia Great Britain and many other English-speaking countries the most popular last name is Smith.

If you want to take a closer look you can take a look at these maps that break down the original map from NetCredit into different continents. This statistic shows the most frequent combinations of first name and last name in the United States as of 2013. Some names are more common than others.

Surname for the first time. You can find the most common names in the world over the last 100 years in the records of the Social Security Administration although that doesnt help to understand which top names have been the most consistently popular. About 928 million people in China have this namewhich is roughly 15 percent of Chinas population.