Saw another surname post floating around so it got me curious on this subject. I’ve always lived in the same place and have been around the same type of names my whole life. What are some of the most common surnames in your area?
Mine are:
Not using any statistics, off the top of my head:
Aydın
Öztürk
Yılmaz
[name_u]Kaya[/name_u]
Arslan
Yıldırım
Probably names like…
[name_m]Smith[/name_m]
[name_m]Davies[/name_m]
[name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
[name_m]Matthews[/name_m]
[name_u]Taylor[/name_u]
[name_m]Jones[/name_m]
[name_u]Walker[/name_u]
[name_u]Anderson[/name_u]
[name_u]Parker[/name_u]
[name_m]Brown[/name_m]
[name_u]Cooper[/name_u]
[name_m]Robinson[/name_m]
[name_m]Harris[/name_m]
[name_m]Wood[/name_m]
Edwards
[name_m]Young[/name_m]
out of my own experience …
[name_m]Brown[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilson[/name_m]
[name_u]Parker[/name_u]
[name_m]Harris[/name_m]
[name_m]Evans[/name_m]
Clark/Clarke
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
[name_m]Hill[/name_m]
[name_u]Carter[/name_u]
[name_m]Knight[/name_m]
I live in a heavily [name_u]French[/name_u] Canadian (?) area.
Bolduc
Lacroix
Veilleux
[name_m]Smith[/name_m]
Michaud
Poulin
Pooler
[name_m]Breton[/name_m]
Fortin
Thibodeau
Cote
[name_m]Mathieu[/name_m]
Pelletier
[name_m]Smith[/name_m]
[name_m]Williams[/name_m]
[name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
[name_m]Brown[/name_m]
Edwards
[name_m]Richards[/name_m]
The ten most common surnames in my city are:
The only one that could ever work as a name is [name_m]Novak[/name_m], like the tennis player [name_m]Novak[/name_m] Djoković.
Some popular ones:
Lopez
[name_m]Ramirez[/name_m]
[name_u]Garcia[/name_u]
[name_m]Smith[/name_m]
[name_m]Williams[/name_m]
[name_m]Clark[/name_m]
Edwards
[name_m]Brown[/name_m]
[name_m]Davies[/name_m]
[name_m]Jones[/name_m]
I’ve known a fair few of:
[name_m]Smith[/name_m]
[name_u]Taylor[/name_u]
[name_m]Evans[/name_m]
[name_m]Brown[/name_m]
[name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
[name_u]Campbell[/name_u]
[name_u]Murphy[/name_u]
Green(berg)
[name_u]Miller[/name_u]
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
[name_m]Williams[/name_m]
[name_m]Moore[/name_m]
[name_u]Davis[/name_u]
Andrews
[name_u]Lee[/name_u]
[name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
Martinez
Gonzalez
[name_m]Rogers[/name_m]
[name_f]Frances[/name_f]
[name_m]Smith[/name_m] and [name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
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Surnames I’ve met multiple people with around here:
[name_m]Turner[/name_m]
Scrivener/Scrivens
[name_m]Parsons[/name_m]
[name_m]Powell[/name_m]
Munnelly
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m]
[name_u]Miller[/name_u]
[name_u]Kennedy[/name_u]
Middleton
[name_m]Jones[/name_m]
[name_u]Porter[/name_u]
[name_m]Wood[/name_m]
[name_u]Shaw[/name_u]
Watts/Watt
[name_m]Moore[/name_m]
Gibson/Gibbs
Borley
Also quite a lot of common Italian, Lithuanian and Chinese surnames here
Rodríguez
Aguilar (ag-yoo-lar)
Maroquin/ Marroquin (mah-do-keen)
[name_u]Cruz[/name_u]
[name_m]Johnson[/name_m]
Hawk/Hawks
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
Montalvo
Hanks
[name_u]Garcia[/name_u]
Lopez
Pérez
Those are just the ones I can think of add the top of my head