What do you think the most common" LAST NAME" is?

Question

Pardon me, in the US

Answer 1

according to Yahoo answers, the most common last name in the world is Chang or Zhang:


There are approximately 100 million Zhangs. The name is roughly 4,700 years old. In all of Mainland China, there are only 438 last names. Chinese surnames were originally based on geography.

Here are the top five last names in the United States, according to the 1990 data from the U.S. Census Bureau: Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, and Brown. There are around 3 million Smiths in the U.S., and they've held the top spot for the last 13 years.

Zhang ranks pretty low on the list of American surnames -- 2292nd. Perhaps more tellingly, Garcia and Martinez rank 18th and 19th, respectively.

Answer 2

Smith

Answer 3

Smith

Answer 4

Well, the most common surname in the U.S. is Smith, occuring as the last name for approximately 1.01% of the population. Then Johnson, then Williams, then Jones, Brown, Davis, Miller, Wilson, etc.

The full list is here: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778413.html

You can get a list with more countries than just the U.S. here, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames

Answer 5

Around here it seems that Smith, Jones, Austin, and Johnson are the most common last names.

Answer 6

There are approximately 100 million Zhangs. The name is roughly 4,700 years old.

What amazes me about this question is that it's rather generic, not naming any particular country, and almost all of the answers refer to the USA - what does that tell us about our culture?

Answer 7

Williams or Smith

Answer 8

Smith 2,772,200
according to 1990 census

Answer 9

According to the 1990 Census, its SMITH. Its probably not much different today, but could very well not be SMITH

Answer 10

Smith is a good guess, but also something with Mahon in it like ex) Mahoney, McMahon, McMahoney