Top Ten Surnames - UK, America and Elsewhere
This page gives the top ten surnames in the English-speaking world by country:
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- Ireland
- America
- Canada
- Jewish in America
- German in America
- African American in America
- Hispanic in America
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Jamaica
- and Barbados.
Click on any surname shown in these lists and the history and genealogy of that name will show.
Top Ten in England* | Top Ten in Scotland | ||
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1. | Smith | 1. | Smith |
2. | Jones | 2. | Brown |
3. | Taylor | 3. | Wilson |
4. | Williams | 4. | Campbell |
5. | Brown | 5. | Stewart |
6. | Davis | 6. | Thomson |
7. | Thompson | 7. | Robertson |
8. | Evans | 8. | Anderson |
9. | Wilson | 9. | MacDonald |
10. | Roberts | 10. | Scott |
Top Ten in Wales | Top Ten in Ireland | ||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Jones | 1. | Murphy |
2. | Williams | 2. | Kelly |
3. | Davies | 3. | O'Sullivan |
4. | Evans | 4. | Walsh |
5. | Thomas | 5. | Smith |
6. | Roberts | 6. | O'Brien |
7. | Lewis | 7. | Byrne |
8. | Hughes | 8. | Ryan |
9. | Morgan | 9. | O'Connor |
10. | Griffiths | 10. | O'Neill |
Top Ten in America | Top Ten in Canada | ||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Smith | 1. | Smith |
2. | Johnson | 2. | Taylor |
3. | Williams | 3. | Scott |
4. | Brown | 4. | Anderson |
5. | Jones | 5. | Johnson |
6. | Miller | 6. | Murphy |
7. | Davis | 7. | Miller |
8. | Anderson | 8. | Clark |
9. | Wilson | 9. | Campbell |
10. | Taylor | 10. | Martin |
Top Ten Jewish* | Top Ten German* | ||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Levy/Levine | 1. | Miller |
2. | Cohen | 2. | Myers |
3. | Miller | 3. | Fisher |
4. | Myers | 4. | Schaefer |
5. | Klein | 5. | Snyder |
6. | Stein | 6. | Schultz |
7. | Kaplan | 7. | Wagner |
8. | Katz | 8. | Hoffman |
9. | Shapiro | 9. | Kramer |
10. | Goldberg | 10. | Klein |
Top Ten African American* | Top Ten Hispanic* | ||
---|---|---|---|
1. | Williams | 1. | Garcia |
2. | Johnson | 2. | Rodriguez |
3. | Smith | 3. | Martinez |
4. | Jones | 4. | Hernandez |
5. | Brown | 5. | Lopez |
6. | Jackson | 6. | Gonzalez |
7. | Davis | 7. | Perez |
8. | Thomas | 8. | Sanchez |
9. | Harris | 9. | Ramirez |
10. | Robinson | 10. | Torres |