Lists of most common surnames in North American countries
This article contains lists of the most common surnames in some of the countries of North America, including one transcontinental country. Countries are arranged in alphabetical order.
Canada
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Surname | Number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smith | 192,145 |
| 2 | Brown | 108,859 |
| 3 | Tremblay | 106,668 |
| 4 | Martin | 91,680 |
| 5 | Roy | 90,417 |
| 6 | Gagnon | 85,120 |
| 7 | Lee | 83,424 |
| 8 | Wilson | 82,768 |
| 9 | Johnson | 79,492 |
| 10 | MacDonald | 78,766 |
By province
[edit | edit source]| Region (year) | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia[2] | Smith | Lee | Wong | Johnson | Brown |
| Alberta[3] | Smith | Johnson | Anderson | Brown | Wilson |
| Saskatchewan[4] | Smith | Johnson | Anderson | Brown | Miller |
| Manitoba[5] | Friesen | Smith | Wiebe | Klassen | Penner |
| Ontario[6] | Smith | Brown | Wilson | Lee | Martin |
| Quebec[7] | Tremblay | Gagnon | Roy | Côté | Gauthier |
| New Brunswick[8] | Leblanc | Cormier | Richard | Smith | Landry |
| Nova Scotia[9] | MacDonald | Smith | Brown | Leblanc | MacNeil |
| Prince Edward Island[10] | MacDonald | Gallant | Arsenault | Campbell | Smith |
| Newfoundland and Labrador[11] | Power | Smith | White | Parsons | Walsh |
| Nunavut[12] | Smith | Kilabuk | Gibbons | Nakoolak | Putulik |
| Northwest Territories[13] | Smith | Brown | Lafferty | MacDonald | McLeod |
| Yukon[14] | Smith | Johnson | Anderson | Brown | Taylor |
Quebec
[edit | edit source]Top 10 common surnames in Quebec as of 2006.[15]
| Rank | Surname | % of pop |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tremblay | 1.08% |
| 2 | Gagnon | 0.790% |
| 3 | Roy | 0.753% |
| 4 | Côté | 0.624% |
| 5 | Bouchard | 0.530% |
| 6 | Gauthier | 0.522% |
| 7 | Morin | 0.498% |
| 8 | Lavoie | 0.458% |
| 9 | Fortin | 0.449% |
| 10 | Gagné | 0.448% |
Costa Rica
[edit | edit source]Most common surnames in Costa Rica as of 2007.[16]
| # | Surname | Persons | % of pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hernández | — | — |
| 2 | Mora | — | — |
| 3 | Rodríguez | — | — |
| 4 | González | — | — |
| 5 | Jiménez | — | — |
| 6 | Morales | — | — |
| 7 | Sánchez | — | — |
| 8 | Ramírez | — | — |
| 9 | Pérez | — | — |
| 10 | Calderón | — | — |
| 11 | Gutiérrez | — | — |
| 12 | Rojas | — | — |
| 13 | Vargas | — | — |
| 14 | Torres | — | — |
| 15 | Salas | — | — |
| 16 | Segura | — | — |
| 17 | Valverde | — | — |
| 18 | Villalobos | — | — |
| 19 | Araya | — | — |
| 20 | Herrera | — | — |
| 21 | López | — | — |
| 22 | Madrigal | — | — |
| Total pop. (2008) | 4,016,173 | 100.00 | |
Cuba
[edit | edit source]Most common surnames in Cuba.[17]
| Rank | Surname | Number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodríguez | 301,136 |
| 2 | Pérez | 300,189 |
| 3 | González | 262,311 |
| 4 | Hernández | 215,593 |
| 5 | García | 208,965 |
| 6 | Martínez | 148,674 |
| 7 | Díaz | 136,364 |
| 8 | Fernández | 134,470 |
| 9 | López | 127,525 |
| 10 | Álvarez | 101,010 |
Dominican Republic
[edit | edit source]| # | Surname | Adults | % of adults | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodríguez | 225,321 | — | Spanish |
| 2 | Pérez | 158,059 | — | Spanish |
| 3 | Martínez | 141,259 | — | Spanish |
| 4 | García | 137,124 | — | Spanish |
| 5 | Reyes | 104,892 | — | Spanish |
| 6 | Sánchez | 104,392 | — | Spanish |
| 7 | Díaz | 95,106 | — | Spanish |
| 8 | Peña | 94,396 | — | Spanish |
| 9 | Jiménez | 92,978 | — | Spanish |
| 10 | Ramírez | 92,863 | — | Spanish |
| 11 | Hernández | 91,080 | — | Spanish |
| 12 | Rosario | 89,630 | — | Spanish |
| 13 | González | 85,757 | — | Spanish |
| 14 | Santana | 81,973 | — | Portuguese/Spanish |
| 15 | Núñez | 79,374 | — | Spanish |
| 16 | Castillo | 78,338 | — | Spanish |
| 17 | de la Cruz | 76,977 | — | Spanish |
| 18 | Cruz | 64,613 | — | Portuguese/Spanish |
| 19 | Guzmán | 63,073 | — | Spanish |
| 20 | Gómez | 62,310 | — | Spanish |
| 21 | Santos | 60,613 | — | Portuguese/Spanish |
| 22 | López | 59,566 | — | Spanish |
| 23 | Fuentes | 58,518 | — | Spanish |
| 24 | Vásquez | 56,149 | — | Spanish |
| 25 | De Los Santos | 54,634 | — | Spanish |
| 26 | Mejía | 51,605 | — | Spanish |
| 27 | Ponce | 49,952 | — | Spanish |
| 28 | Fernández | 49,712 | — | Spanish |
| 29 | Vargas | 49,353 | — | Portuguese/Spanish |
| 30 | Montes | 48,574 | — | Spanish |
| Total pop. | ||||
El Salvador
[edit | edit source]Most common surnames in El Salvador as of 2005.[18]
| # | Surname | Number of people | % of population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hernández | — | — |
| 2 | Martínez | — | — |
| 3 | López | — | — |
| 4 | García | — | — |
| 5 | Rodríguez | — | — |
| 6 | Flores | — | — |
| 7 | Pérez | — | — |
| 8 | Ramírez | — | — |
| 9 | González | — | — |
| 10 | Rivera | — | — |
| 11 | Vásquez | — | — |
| 12 | Cruz | — | — |
| 13 | Mejía | — | — |
| 14 | Rivas | — | — |
| 15 | Sánchez | — | — |
| 16 | Reyes | — | — |
| 17 | Díaz | — | — |
| 18 | Ramos | — | — |
| 19 | Gómez | — | — |
| 20 | Portillo | — | — |
| 21 | Escobar | — | — |
| 22 | Orellana | — | — |
| 23 | Romero | — | — |
| 24 | Aguilar | — | — |
| 25 | Alvarado | — | — |
| Total population (2007) | 5,744,113[19] | 100.00 | |
Guatemala
[edit | edit source]Most common surnames in Guatemala as of 2015.[20]
| # | Surname | Persons | % of pop. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | López | 371,525 | 2.5% |
| 2 | García | 285,670 | 1.9% |
| 3 | Morales | 228,167 | 1.5% |
| 4 | Hernández | 222,755 | 1.5% |
| 5 | Pérez | 209,963 | 1.4% |
| 6 | González | 208,795 | 1.4% |
| 7 | Rodríguez | 135,978 | 0.9% |
| 8 | De León | 134,010 | 0.9% |
| 9 | Ramírez | 131,796 | 0.9% |
| 10 | Martínez | 123,186 | 0.8% |
| 11 | Castillo | 116,298 | 0.8% |
| 12 | Estrada | 115,252 | 0.8% |
| 13 | Marroquín | 113,961 | 0.8% |
| 14 | Gómez | 110,824 | 0.7% |
| 15 | Vásquez | 102,153 | 0.7% |
| 16 | Méndez | 98,462 | 0.7% |
| 17 | Reyes | 95,449 | 0.6% |
| 18 | Díaz | 94,403 | 0.6% |
| 19 | Aguilar | 94,096 | 0.6% |
| 20 | Velásquez | 89,975 | 0.6% |
| First 20 | 3,082,718 | 20.7% | |
| Total population (2015) | 14,918,999[21] | 100% | |
Mexico
[edit | edit source]Below are the most common surnames of Mexico. All of the surnames listed are of Spanish origin.[22]
| Rank | Surname | Number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hernández | 5,526,929 |
| 2 | García | 4,129,360 |
| 3 | Martínez | 3,886,887 |
| 4 | González | 3,188,693 |
| 5 | López | 3,148,024 |
| 6 | Rodríguez | 2,744,179 |
| 7 | Pérez | 2,746,468 |
| 8 | Sánchez | 2,234,625 |
| 9 | Ramírez | 2,070,723 |
| 10 | Flores | 1,392,707 |
| 11 | Gómez | 989,295 |
| 12 | Torres | 841,966 |
| 13 | Díaz | 811,553 |
| 14 | Vásquez | 806,894 |
| 15 | Cruz | 800,874 |
| 16 | Morales | 771,796 |
| 17 | Gutiérrez | 748,789 |
| 18 | Reyes | 738,320 |
| 19 | Ruíz | 708,718 |
| 20 | Jiménez | 670,453 |
| 21 | Mendoza | 613,683 |
| 22 | Aguilar | 611,904 |
| 23 | Ortíz | 576,989 |
| 24 | Álvarez | 557,332 |
| 25 | Castillo | 553,799 |
| 26 | Romero | 540,922 |
| 27 | Moreno | 539,927 |
| 28 | Chávez | 517,392 |
| 29 | Rivera | 508,022 |
| 30 | Ramos | 455,728 |
| 31 | Herrera | 451,226 |
| 32 | Medina | 431,518 |
| 33 | Vargas | 427,854 |
| 34 | Castro | 419,216 |
| 35 | Méndez | 410,239 |
| 36 | Guzmán | 392,284 |
| 37 | Fernández | 385,741 |
| 38 | Juárez | 384,929 |
| 39 | Muñoz | 376,633 |
| 40 | Ortega | 372,471 |
| 41 | Salazar | 368,231 |
| 42 | Rojas | 365,457 |
| 43 | Guerrero | 361,557 |
| 44 | Contreras | 358,521 |
| 45 | Luna | 357,578 |
| 46 | Domínguez | 348,182 |
| 47 | Garza | 335,829 |
| 48 | Velásquez | 331,510 |
| 49 | Estrada | 324,103 |
| 50 | Soto | 306,227 |
| 51 | Cortez | 301,954 |
| 52 | Lara | 298,034 |
| 53 | Espinoza | 289,842 |
| 54 | Vega | 285,864 |
| 55 | Ávila | 284,530 |
| 56 | Cervantes | 276,101 |
| 57 | Sandoval | 273,091 |
| 58 | Carrillo | 267,333 |
| 59 | Alvarado | 266,993 |
| 60 | Silva | 265,553 |
| 61 | León | 260,246 |
| 62 | Ríos | 260,141 |
| 63 | Navarro | 258,408 |
| 64 | Delgado | 254,273 |
| 65 | Márquez | 248,933 |
| 66 | Campos | 246,709 |
| 67 | Ibarra | 241,343 |
| 68 | Solís | 240,008 |
| 69 | Rosas | 237,339 |
| 70 | Miranda | 233,910 |
| 71 | Camacho | 233,858 |
| 72 | Valdez | 232,680 |
| 73 | Cárdenas | 230,848 |
| 74 | Orozco | 228,963 |
| 75 | Aguirre | 228,754 |
| 76 | Mejía | 227,392 |
| 77 | Acosta | 224,385 |
| 78 | Padilla | 223,205 |
| 79 | Robles | 222,472 |
| 80 | Núñez | 222,153 |
| 81 | Peña | 220,868 |
| 82 | Cabrera | 220,647 |
| 83 | Rosales | 218,935 |
| 84 | Molina | 217,049 |
| 85 | Pacheco | 212,981 |
| 86 | Castañeda | 212,078 |
| 87 | Fuentes | 210,342 |
| 88 | Valenzuela | 210,221 |
| 89 | Rangel | 209,232 |
| 90 | Ayala | 208,964 |
| 91 | Meza | 207,662 |
| 92 | Nava | 203,308 |
| 93 | Valencia | 198,634 |
| 94 | Maldonado | 195,043 |
| 95 | Ochoa | 192,341 |
| 96 | Serrano | 185,071 |
| 97 | Tapia | 183,351 |
| 98 | Salinas | 183,098 |
| 99 | Suárez | 182,020 |
| 100 | Zamora | 181,835 |
United States
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The table below presents the most common 100 surnames as of the 2010 Census. It includes the total number of people with each surname as well as the rate per 100,000 people. Figures for the 2000 Census are also included for comparison.[23]
In 2010, there were 51,089,493 people with last names in the top 100, representing 16.5% of the total (308,745,538). Surnames appearing less than 100 times represented less than 10% of the population.[24] The most common surname remains Smith; over two million Americans have that name and it is the most common name for white, native and multiracial residents. The most common name among black Americans was Williams and the most common name among Asian Americans was Nguyen. The name Wilson was 10th in the 2000 census but was replaced by Martinez in 2010. The names Garcia and Rodriguez had previously entered the top ten in the 2000 Census, replacing Taylor and Moore.[25]
| Name | Count 2010 |
Rate[a] 2010 |
Count 2000 |
Rate[a] 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith | 2,442,977 | 828.2 | 2,376,206 | 880.9 |
| Johnson | 1,932,812 | 655.2 | 1,857,160 | 688.4 |
| Williams | 1,625,252 | 551.0 | 1,534,042 | 568.7 |
| Brown | 1,437,026 | 487.2 | 1,380,145 | 511.6 |
| Jones | 1,425,470 | 483.2 | 1,362,755 | 505.2 |
| Garcia | 1,166,120 | 395.3 | 858,289 | 318.2 |
| Miller | 1,161,437 | 393.7 | 1,127,803 | 418.1 |
| Davis | 1,116,357 | 378.5 | 1,072,335 | 397.5 |
| Rodriguez | 1,094,924 | 371.2 | 804,240 | 298.1 |
| Martinez | 1,060,159 | 359.4 | 775,072 | 287.3 |
| Hernandez | 1,043,281 | 353.7 | 706,372 | 261.9 |
| Lopez | 874,523 | 296.5 | 621,536 | 230.4 |
| Gonzalez | 841,025 | 285.1 | 597,718 | 221.6 |
| Wilson | 801,882 | 271.8 | 783,051 | 290.3 |
| Anderson | 784,404 | 265.9 | 762,394 | 282.6 |
| Thomas | 756,142 | 256.3 | 710,696 | 263.5 |
| Taylor | 751,209 | 254.7 | 720,370 | 267.0 |
| Moore | 724,374 | 245.6 | 698,671 | 259.0 |
| Jackson | 708,099 | 240.1 | 666,125 | 246.9 |
| Martin | 702,625 | 238.2 | 672,711 | 249.4 |
| Lee | 693,023 | 234.9 | 605,860 | 224.6 |
| Perez | 681,645 | 231.1 | 488,521 | 181.1 |
| Thompson | 664,644 | 225.3 | 644,368 | 238.9 |
| White | 660,491 | 223.9 | 639,515 | 237.1 |
| Harris | 624,252 | 211.6 | 593,542 | 220.0 |
| Sanchez | 612,752 | 207.7 | 441,242 | 163.6 |
| Clark | 562,679 | 190.8 | 548,369 | 203.3 |
| Ramirez | 557,423 | 189.0 | 388,987 | 144.2 |
| Lewis | 531,781 | 180.3 | 509,930 | 189.0 |
| Robinson | 529,821 | 179.6 | 503,028 | 186.5 |
| Walker | 523,129 | 177.3 | 501,307 | 185.8 |
| Young | 484,447 | 164.2 | 465,948 | 172.7 |
| Allen | 482,607 | 163.6 | 463,368 | 171.8 |
| King | 465,422 | 157.8 | 438,986 | 162.7 |
| Wright | 458,980 | 155.6 | 440,367 | 163.2 |
| Scott | 439,530 | 149.0 | 420,091 | 155.7 |
| Torres | 437,813 | 148.4 | 325,169 | 120.5 |
| Nguyen | 437,645 | 148.4 | 310,125 | 115.0 |
| Hill | 434,827 | 147.4 | 411,770 | 152.6 |
| Flores | 433,969 | 147.1 | 312,615 | 115.9 |
| Green | 430,182 | 145.8 | 413,477 | 153.3 |
| Adams | 427,865 | 145.1 | 413,086 | 153.1 |
| Nelson | 424,958 | 144.1 | 412,236 | 152.8 |
| Baker | 419,586 | 142.2 | 413,351 | 153.2 |
| Hall | 407,076 | 138.0 | 473,568 | 175.6 |
| Rivera | 391,114 | 132.6 | 299,463 | 111.0 |
| Campbell | 386,157 | 130.9 | 371,953 | 137.9 |
| Mitchell | 384,486 | 130.3 | 367,433 | 136.2 |
| Carter | 376,966 | 127.8 | 362,548 | 134.4 |
| Roberts | 376,774 | 127.7 | 366,215 | 135.8 |
| Gomez | 365,655 | 124.0 | 263,590 | 97.7 |
| Phillips | 360,802 | 122.3 | 351,848 | 130.4 |
| Evans | 355,593 | 120.6 | 342,237 | 126.9 |
| Turner | 348,627 | 118.2 | 335,663 | 124.4 |
| Diaz | 347,636 | 117.9 | 251,772 | 93.3 |
| Parker | 336,221 | 114.0 | 324,246 | 120.2 |
| Cruz | 334,201 | 113.3 | 231,065 | 85.7 |
| Edwards | 332,423 | 112.7 | 317,070 | 117.5 |
| Collins | 329,770 | 111.8 | 317,848 | 117.8 |
| Reyes | 327,904 | 111.2 | 232,511 | 86.2 |
| Stewart | 324,957 | 110.2 | 312,899 | 116.0 |
| Morris | 318,884 | 108.1 | 311,754 | 115.6 |
| Morales | 311,777 | 105.7 | 217,642 | 80.7 |
| Murphy | 308,417 | 104.6 | 300,501 | 111.4 |
| Cook | 302,589 | 102.6 | 294,795 | 109.3 |
| Rogers | 302,261 | 102.5 | 294,403 | 109.1 |
| Gutierrez | 293,218 | 99.4 | 212,905 | 78.9 |
| Ortiz | 286,899 | 97.3 | 214,683 | 79.6 |
| Morgan | 286,280 | 97.1 | 276,400 | 102.5 |
| Cooper | 280,791 | 95.2 | 270,097 | 100.1 |
| Peterson | 278,297 | 94.3 | 275,041 | 102.0 |
| Bailey | 277,845 | 94.2 | 265,916 | 98.6 |
| Reed | 277,030 | 93.9 | 267,443 | 99.1 |
| Kelly | 267,394 | 90.7 | 260,385 | 96.5 |
| Howard | 264,826 | 89.8 | 254,779 | 94.5 |
| Ramos | 263,464 | 89.3 | 193,096 | 71.6 |
| Kim | 262,352 | 88.9 | 194,067 | 71.9 |
| Cox | 261,231 | 88.6 | 253,771 | 94.1 |
| Ward | 260,464 | 88.3 | 254,121 | 94.2 |
| Richardson | 259,798 | 88.1 | 249,533 | 92.5 |
| Watson | 252,579 | 85.6 | 242,432 | 89.9 |
| Brooks | 251,663 | 85.3 | 240,751 | 89.3 |
| Chavez | 250,898 | 85.1 | 185,865 | 68.9 |
| Wood | 250,715 | 85.0 | 247,299 | 91.7 |
| James | 249,379 | 84.5 | 233,224 | 86.5 |
| Bennett | 247,599 | 83.9 | 239,055 | 88.6 |
| Gray | 246,116 | 83.4 | 236,713 | 87.8 |
| Mendoza | 242,771 | 82.3 | 168,567 | 62.5 |
| Ruiz | 238,234 | 80.8 | 175,429 | 65.0 |
| Hughes | 236,271 | 80.1 | 229,390 | 85.0 |
| Price | 235,251 | 79.8 | 228,756 | 84.8 |
| Alvarez | 233,983 | 79.3 | 168,817 | 62.6 |
| Castillo | 230,420 | 78.1 | 165,473 | 61.3 |
| Sanders | 230,374 | 78.1 | 220,902 | 81.9 |
| Patel | 229,973 | 78.0 | 145,066 | 53.8 |
| Myers | 229,895 | 77.9 | 224,824 | 83.3 |
| Long | 229,374 | 77.8 | 223,494 | 82.9 |
| Ross | 229,368 | 77.8 | 219,961 | 81.5 |
| Foster | 227,764 | 77.2 | 221,040 | 81.9 |
| Jimenez | 227,118 | 77.0 | 157,475 | 58.4 |
See also
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- List of family name affixes
- List of most popular given names
- Lists of most common surnames, for other continents
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Popular baby names by decade and states—US Social Security Administration
- Most common male, female first and last names—U.S. Census 1990
- Top 200 most common US surnames
- Top 1000 names, surnames occurring 100 or more times—US Census 2000
- CMU AI Repository Names Corpus