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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
Lists of most common surnames. Lists of the most common surnames by continent : List of most common surnames in Asia. List of most common surnames in Europe. List of most common surnames in North America. List of most common surnames in Oceania. List of most common surnames in South America.
Lists of most common surnames in North American countries#United States of America.
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
And, as the New York Times reports, "Six of the 15 most common surnames in the United States were of Hispanic origin in 2010, compared with four of 15 in 2000 and none as recently as 1990."
Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and south. Huber is common in southern Bavaria and is, with the exception of Munich, the most frequent name in that area. Patronymic surnames such as Jansen/Janssen, Hansen, and Petersen are the most common names in the far north (Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein).
Last names such as Garcia, Hernandez, Martinez and Chavez are more common. And in Hawaii, the most popular surnames are Lee, Wong and Kim, which don’t pop up at the top of the list in any other ...
[5] [14] By way of comparison, the 2000 census found the most common surname in the United States – Smith – had fewer than 2.4 million occurrences and made up only 0.84% of the general population. The top 100 surnames accounted for only 16.4% of the US population, [3] and reaching 89.8% of the US population required more than 150,000 ...