The Netherlands
- from the 1947 census
De Jong 55,256
De Vries 49,298
Jansen 49,213
Van den Berg 37,678 (including Van der Berg and Van de Berg)
Bakker 37,483
Van Dijk 36,578
Visser 34,721
Janssen 32,824
Smit 29,783
Meijer, Meyer 28,256
Source: Meertens Instituut
Norway
- Hansen (1.31%)
- Olsen (1.21%)
- Johansen (1.21%)
- Larsen (0.90%)
- Andersen (0.88%)
- Nilsen (0.83%)
- Pedersen (0.82%)
- Kristiansen (0.55%)
- Jensen (0.54%)
- Karlsen (0.50%)
- Johnsen (0.48%)
- Pettersen (0.47%)
- Eriksen (0.44%)
- Berg (0.41%)
- Haugen (0.32%)
- Hagen (0.32%)
- Johannessen (0.31%)
- Andreassen (0.28%)
- Jacobsen (0.27%)
- Halvorsen (0.27%)
Names ending in sen are originally patronymic.
Source: Statistics Norway
Poland
- Nowak (203 506)
- Kowalski (139 719)
- Wiśniewski (109 855)
- Wójcik (99 509)
- Kowalczyk (97 796)
- Kamiński (94 499)
- Lewandowski (92 449)
- Zieliński (91 043)
- Szymański (89 091)
- Woźniak (88 039)
- Dąbrowski (86 132)
- Kozłowski (75 962)
- Jankowski (68 514)
- Mazur (66 773)
- Wojciechowski (66 361)
- Kwiatkowski (66 017)
- Krawczyk (64 048)
- Kaczmarek (61 816)
- Piotrowski (61 380)
- Grabowski (58 393)
- Source: Zawadzki J.M, 2002, 1000 Najpopularniejszych nazwisk w Polsce [1000 of the most popular names in Poland], Warsaw: Świat Książki
Quebec, Canada
The 50 most popular surnames in Quebec
- Tremblay (1.13%)
- Gagnon (0.82%)
- Roy (0.77%)
- Côté (0.74%)
- Bouchard (0.56%)
- Gauthier (0.55%)
- Morin (0.51%)
- Lavoie (0.49%)
- Fortin (0.47%)
- Gagné (0.47%)
- Pelletier (0.45%)
- Bélanger (0.44%)
- Bergeron (0.41%)
- Lévesque (0.41%)
- Simard (0.38%)
- Girard (0.37%)
- Leblanc (0.37%)
- Boucher (0.35%)
- Ouellet (0.34%)
- Caron (0.32%)
- Beaulieu (0.31%)
- Poirier (0.31%)
- Dubé (0.31%)
- Cloutier (0.31%)
- Fournier (0.30%)
- Lapointe (0.30%)
- Lefebvre (0.29%)
- Poulin (0.28%)
- Nadeau (0.28%)
- Martin (0.27%)
- St-Pierre (0.27%)
- Martel (0.26%)
- Grenier (0.26%)
- Landry (0.26%)
- Lessard (0.26%)
- Leclerc (0.25%)
- Bédard (0.25%)
- Bernier (0.24%)
- Couture (0.24%)
- Richard (0.23%)
- Michaud (0.23%)
- Desjardins (0.23%)
- Hébert (0.22%)
- Blais (0.22%)
- Turcotte (0.22%)
- Savard (0.22%)
- Lachance (0.22%)
- Parent (0.22%)
- Demers (0.21%)
- Gosselin (0.21%)
Percentage of total population: 17.82%
Sources: Institut de la statistique du Québec, Quelques Statistiques sur les Noms de Famille and Les 6 000 premiers noms de famille par ordre alphabétique, Québec
Romania
- Ionescu, Ion
- Popescu, Pop
- Georgescu, Gheorghe
- Constantinescu, Constantin
- Petrescu, Petre, Petreanu
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Spain
- Source: [1] - Data from December 1999.
García - 1,378,000 people (3.48%)
Fernández - 851,000 (2.15%)
González - 839,000 (2.12%)
Rodríguez - 804,000 (2.03%)
López - 796,000 (2.01%)
Martínez - 788,000 (1.97%)
Sánchez - 725,000 (1.83%)
Pérez - 709,000 (1.79%)
Martín - 459,000 (1.16%)
Gómez - 440,000 (1.11%)
Ruiz - 321,000 (0.81%)
Hernández - 305,000 (0.77%)
Jiménez - 293,000 (0.74%)
Díez - 293,000 (0.74%)
Álvarez - 273,000 (0.69%)
Moreno - 261,000 (0.66%)
Muñoz - 241,000 (0.61%)
Alonso - 206,000 (0.52%)
Gutiérrez - 170,000 (0.43%)
Romero - 170,000 (0.43%)
Navarro - 158,400 (0.40%)
Torres - 134,600 (0.34%)
Domínguez - 134,600 (0.34%)
Gil - 134,600 (0.34%)
Vázquez - 130,000 (0.33%)
Serrano - 122,700 (0.31%)
Ramos - 118,000 (0.30%)
Blanco - 118,000 (0.30%)
Sanz - 106,900 (0.27%)
Castro - 102,900 (0.26%)
Suárez - 102,900 (0.26%)
Ortega - 99,000 (0.25%)
Rubio - 99,000 (0.25%)
Molina - 99,000 (0.25%)
Delgado - 95,000 (0.24%)
Ramírez - 95,000 (0.24%)
Morales - 95,000 (0.24%)
Ortiz - 87,120 (0.22%)
Marín - 83,160 (0.21%)
Iglesias - 83,160 (0.21%)
Family names ending in -ez are typically patronymic
Sweden
- official statistics
- Johansson (3.3%)
- Andersson (3.2%)
- Karlsson (2.5%)
- Nilsson (2.2%)
- Eriksson (1.7%)
- Larsson (1.6%)
- Olsson (1.4%)
- Persson (1.4%)
- Svensson (1.3%)
- Gustafsson (0.90%)
- Pettersson (0.83%)
- Jonsson (0.72%)
- Jansson (0.63%)
- Hansson (0.54%)
- Bengtsson (0.42%)
- Jönsson (0.42%)
- Petersson (0.37%)
- Carlsson (0.34%)
- Gustavsson (0.32%)
- Magnusson (0.32%)
- Lindberg (0.31%)
- Olofsson (0.30%)
The most common names in Sweden are originally patronymic, which means that the son of e.g. Karl received the surname Karlsson (Karl's son). The daughter received the name Karlsdotter (Karl's daughter). Since the 19th century these names are inherited exactly as in e.g. USA or Great Britain and women also receive "son-names". Compare this with the "mac-names" in Scotland. Even though these "son-names" are the most common names in Sweden, a majority of the Swedes have other family names such as Lindberg (linden/lime mountain), Sjöman (Seaman) and Nyman (Newman), but because of the greater diversity of these names each specific name is less common than most "son-names". Noble persons in Sweden often, but not always, have surnames refering to their coat of arms or non-swedish names.
United States
- see Census data
- (Numbers in parenthesis are percentage of population with that name.)
Smith (1.006%, #1)
Johnson (0.810%)
Williams (0.699%)
Jones (0.621%)
Brown (0.621%)
Davis (0.480%)
Miller (0.424%)
Wilson (0.339%)
Moore (0.312%)
Taylor (0.311%)
Anderson (0.311%)
Thomas (0.311%)
Jackson (0.310%)
White (0.279%)
Harris (0.275%)
Martin (0.273%)
Thompson (0.269%)
Garcia (0.254%)
Martinez (0.234%)
Robinson (0.233%)
- The distribution of family names in the U.S. reflects the history of immigration into the country. Many immigrants from non English speaking countries adopted English family names. Good examples of this are the popular Swedish name Johanson which was frequently changed to Johnson, and the German Müller changed to Miller. This is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in Great Britain.
Vietnam
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