Most common surnames in the world — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of most common surnames in the world, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
By number of people carrying them. Chinese surnames dominate the top on population alone, and Devi, Singh and Kumar place remarkably high — in much of India they are not family names at all, which is exactly why so many share them.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Wang
- Li
- Zhang
- Liu
- Chen
- Yang
- Huang
- Nguyen
- Devi
- Zhao
- Wu
- Zhou
- Kim
- Xu
- Sun
- Ma
- Singh
- Zhu
- Hu
- Kumar
- Lin
- Guo
- He
- Gao
- Luo
- Smith
- Zheng
- Liang
- Xie
- Song
- Tang
- Garcia
- Han
- Cao
- Deng
- Xiao
- Feng
- Zeng
- Cheng
- Ali
- Yadav
- Sharma
- Patel
- Khan
- Shah
- Das
- Roy
- Mandal
- Sheikh
- Begum
- Rahman
- Hossain
- Islam
- Ahmed
- Mohamed
- Hassan
- Ibrahim
- Abdullah
- Park
- Lee
- Choi
- Jung
- Kang
- Cho
- Yoon
- Tanaka
- Sato
- Suzuki
- Takahashi
- Watanabe
- Ito
- Yamamoto
- Nakamura
- Kobayashi
- Yoshida
- Tran
- Pham
- Hoang
- Phan
- Bui
- Silva
- Santos
- Souza
- Oliveira
- Pereira
- Lima
- Costa
- Rodriguez
- Martinez
- Hernandez
- Lopez
- Gonzalez
- Perez
- Sanchez
- Ramirez
- Torres
- Flores
- Rivera
- Gomez
- Diaz
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