List of most common surnames in North America

This is a list of the most common surnames (also called last names or family names) in North America.

Canada (Canadian)

Rank	Surname
1	Smith
2	Murphy
3	Lam
4	Martin
5	Brown
6	Roy
7	Tremblay
8	Lee
9	Gagnon
10	Wilson

Costa Rica (Costa Rican)

Most common surnames in Costa Rica as of 2007.^[1]

#	Surname	Persons	% of pop.
1	Díaz	N/A	N/A
2	Mora	N/A	N/A
3	Rodríguez	N/A	N/A
4	González	N/A	N/A
5	Hernández	N/A	N/A
6	Morales	N/A	N/A
7	Sánchez	N/A	N/A
8	Ramírez	N/A	N/A
9	Pérez	N/A	N/A
10	Calderón	N/A	N/A
11	Gutiérrez	N/A	N/A
12	Rojas	N/A	N/A
13	Salas	N/A	N/A
14	Vargas	N/A	N/A
15	Torres	N/A	N/A
16	Segura	N/A	N/A
17	Valverde	N/A	N/A
18	Villalobos	N/A	N/A
19	Araya	N/A	N/A
20	Herrera	N/A	N/A
21	López	N/A	N/A
22	Madrigal	N/A	N/A
Total pop. (2008)		4,016,173	100.00

Cuba (Cuban)

Most common surnames in Cuba.^[2]

Rank	Surname	Number
1	Rodríguez	301,136
2	Pérez	300,189
3	González	262,311
4	Hernández	215,593
5	García	208,965
6	Martinez	148,674
7	Diaz	136,364
8	Fernández	134,470
9	López	127,525
10	Álvarez	101,010

Dominican Republic (Dominican)

#	Surname	Adults	% of adults	Origin
1	Rodríguez	225,321	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
2	Pérez	158,059	N/A	Spanish
3	Martínez	141,259	N/A	Spanish
4	García	137,124	N/A	Spanish
5	Reyes	104,892	N/A	Spanish
6	Sánchez	104,392	N/A	Spanish
7	Díaz	95,106	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
8	Peña	94,396	N/A	Spanish
9	Jiménez	92,978	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
10	Ramírez	92,863	N/A	Spanish
11	Hernández	91,080	N/A	Spanish
12	Rosario	89,630	N/A	Spanish
13	González	85,757	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
14	Santana	81,973	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
15	Núñez	79,374	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
16	Castillo	78,338	N/A	Spanish
17	De la Cruz	76,977	N/A	Spanish
18	Cruz	64,613	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
19	Guzmán	63,073	N/A	Spanish
20	Gómez	62,310	N/A	Spanish
21	Santos	60,613	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
22	López	59,566	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
23	Féliz	58,518	N/A	Spanish
24	Vásquez	56,149	N/A	Spanish
25	De los Santos	54,634	N/A	Spanish
26	Mejía	51,605	N/A	Spanish
27	Polanco	49,952	N/A	Spanish
28	Fernández	49,712	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
29	Vargas	49,353}	N/A	Portuguese/Spanish
30	Almonte	48,574	N/A	Spanish
Total pop.

El Salvador (Salvadoran)

Most common surnames in El Salvador as of 2005.^[3]

#	Surname	Number of people	% of population
1	Hernández	N/A	N/A
2	Martínez	N/A	N/A
3	López	N/A	N/A
4	García	N/A	N/A
5	Rodríguez	N/A	N/A
6	Flores	N/A	N/A
7	Pérez	N/A	N/A
8	Ramírez	N/A	N/A
9	González	N/A	N/A
10	Rivera	N/A	N/A
11	Vásquez	N/A	N/A
12	Cruz	N/A	N/A
13	Mejía	N/A	N/A
14	Rivas	N/A	N/A
15	Sánchez	N/A	N/A
16	Reyes	N/A	N/A
17	Díaz	N/A	N/A
18	Ramos	N/A	N/A
19	Gómez	N/A	N/A
20	Portillo	N/A	N/A
21	Escobar	N/A	N/A
22	Orellana	N/A	N/A
23	Romero	N/A	N/A
24	Aguilar	N/A	N/A
25	Alvarado	N/A	N/A
Total population (2007)		5,744,113^[4]	100.00

Guatemala (Guatemalan)

Most common surnames in Guatemala as of 2015.^[5]

#	Surname	Persons	% of pop.
1	López	371,525	2.5%
2	García	285,670	1.9%
3	Morales	228,167	1.5%
4	Hernández	222,755	1.5%
5	Pérez	209,963	1.4%
6	González	208,795	1.4%
7	Rodríguez	135,978	0.9%
8	De León	134,010	0.9%
9	Ramírez	131,796	0.9%
10	Martínez	123,186	0.8%
11	Castillo	116,298	0.8%
12	Estrada	115,252	0.8%
13	Marroquín	113,961	0.8%
14	Gómez	110,824	0.7%
15	Vásquez	102,153	0.7%
16	Méndez	98,462	0.7%
17	Reyes	95,449	0.6%
18	Díaz	94,403	0.6%
19	Aguilar	94,096	0.6%
20	Velásquez	89,975	0.6%
First 20		3,082,718	20.7%
Total population (2015)		14,918,999^[6]	100%

Mexico (Mexican)

Below are the most common surnames of Mexico, derived from the surnames listed in Mexico's 2005 electoral roll.^[7]

Rank	Surname	Number
1	Rodríguez	6,744,179
2	Hernandez	5,526,929
3	García	4,129,360
4	Martínez	3,886,887
5	González	3,188,693
6	López	3,148,024
7	Pérez	2,746,468
8	Sánchez	2,234,625
9	Ramírez	2,070,723
10	Flores	1,392,707

United States (American)

All figures are for the 2000 United States Census, except for the 1990 Rank column which is for the 1990 United States Census.

The distribution of U.S. surnames reflects the history of immigration into the country. Many immigrants from non-English-speaking countries Anglicized their names. Some examples of this are the popular Swedish name Johansson which was frequently changed to Johnson, and the German Müller which became Miller. Some very common Swedish names were so similar that only a minor change of spelling was necessary, such as Andersson and Jonsson, which is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom. British surnames such as Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones are also common among people of non-British descent, such as African Americans due to slavery .

Garcia and Martinez represent the rapid growth of several Hispanic communities in the United States. According to the above table, from the 2000 Census, 17.11% of Americans have a surname among the top 100. On the other hand, 13.97% of Americans have a surname which occurs fewer than 100 times in the entire population.

During the 2000 U.S. Census, the top one hundred surnames in the U.S. were:^[8]^[9]^[10]

Name	Rank	1990 Rank	Change	Total number	Frequency per 100,000	Cumulative per 100,000	White	Black	Asian or Pacific Islander	Native American or Alaskan	Multiracial	Hispanic
Smith	1	1	0	2,376,207	880.85	880.85	73.35	22.22	0.4	0.85	1.63	1.56
Johnson	2	2	0	1,857,160	688.44	1569.3	61.55	33.8	0.42	0.91	1.82	1.5
Williams	3	3	0	1,534,042	568.66	2137.96	48.52	46.72	0.37	0.78	2.01	1.6
Brown	4	5	1	1,380,145	511.62	2649.58	60.71	34.54	0.41	0.83	1.86	1.64
Jones	5	4	−1	1,362,755	505.17	3154.75	57.69	37.73	0.35	0.94	1.85	1.44
Miller	6	7	1	1,127,803	418.07	3572.82	85.81	10.41	0.42	0.63	1.31	1.43
Davis	7	6	−1	1,072,335	397.51	3970.33	64.73	30.77	0.4	0.79	1.73	1.58
Garcia	8	18	10	858,289	318.17	4288.5	6.17	0.49	1.43	0.58	0.51	90.81
Rodriguez	9	22	13	804,240	298.13	4586.62	5.52	0.54	0.58	0.24	0.41	92.7
Wilson	10	8	−2	783,051	290.27	4876.9	69.72	25.32	0.46	1.03	1.74	1.73
Martinez	11	19	8	775,072	287.32	5164.22	6.04	0.52	0.6	0.64	0.46	91.72
Anderson	12	11	−1	762,394	282.62	5446.83	77.6	18.06	0.48	0.7	1.59	1.58
Taylor	13	10	−3	720,370	267.04	5713.87	67.8	27.67	0.39	0.75	1.78	1.61
Thomas	14	12	−2	710,696	263.45	5977.33	55.53	38.17	1.63	1.01	2	1.66
Hernandez	15	29	14	706,372	261.85	6239.18	4.55	0.38	0.65	0.27	0.35	93.81
Moore	16	9	−7	698,671	259	6498.17	68.85	26.92	0.37	0.65	1.7	1.5
Martin	17	16	−1	672,711	249.37	6747.54	77.47	15.3	0.71	0.94	1.59	3.99
Jackson	18	13	−5	666,125	246.93	6994.47	41.93	53.02	0.31	1.04	2.18	1.53
Thompson	19	17	−2	644,368	238.87	7233.34	72.48	22.53	0.44	1.15	1.78	1.62
White	20	14	−6	639,515	237.07	7470.4	67.91	27.38	0.39	1.01	1.76	1.55
Lopez	21	32	11	621,536	230.4	7700.81	5.85	0.61	1.04	0.47	0.52	91.51
Lee	22	24	2	605,860	224.59	7925.4	40.09	17.41	37.83	1.03	2.3	1.34
Gonzalez	23	38	15	597,718	221.57	8146.97	4.76	0.37	0.38	0.18	0.33	93.99
Harris	24	15	−9	593,542	220.02	8366.99	53.88	41.63	0.36	0.65	2.02	1.45
Clark	25	21	−4	548,369	203.28	8570.27	76.84	18.53	0.41	0.94	1.6	1.68
Lewis	26	23	−3	509,930	189.03	8759.3	60.97	33.83	0.45	1.14	1.97	1.64
Robinson	27	20	−7	503,028	186.47	8945.77	51.34	44.1	0.37	0.51	1.99	1.68
Walker	28	25	−3	501,307	185.83	9131.61	61.25	34.17	0.35	0.83	1.8	1.6
Perez	29	42	13	488,521	181.09	9312.7	5.95	0.48	1.18	0.26	0.48	91.65
Hall	30	26	−4	473,568	175.55	9488.25	75.11	20.75	0.48	0.63	1.63	1.4
Young	31	28	−3	465,948	172.73	9660.97	68.91	23.79	2.95	0.73	1.93	1.69
Allen	32	27	−5	463,368	171.77	9832.74	70.24	25.14	0.41	0.83	1.77	1.62
Sanchez	33	52	19	441,242	163.57	9996.31	5.77	0.5	1.01	0.49	0.45	91.78
Wright	34	31	−3	440,367	163.24	10159.55	68.3	27.36	0.4	0.66	1.75	1.52
King	35	30	−5	438,986	162.73	10322.28	72.8	22.02	0.88	0.97	1.71	1.62
Scott	36	34	−2	420,091	155.73	10478.01	62.6	32.26	0.41	1.15	1.9	1.68
Green	37	35	−2	413,477	153.27	10631.29	59.33	36.23	0.34	0.61	1.78	1.71
Baker	38	37	−1	413,351	153.23	10784.51	82.08	13.63	0.45	0.83	1.54	1.47
Adams	39	36	−3	413,086	153.13	10937.64	76.17	19.2	0.45	0.79	1.63	1.76
Nelson	40	39	−1	412,236	152.81	11090.46	80.29	14.93	0.51	1.09	1.49	1.68
Hill	41	33	−8	411,770	152.64	11243.1	66.83	28.42	0.42	0.91	1.78	1.64
Ramirez	42	70	28	388,987	144.2	11387.3	4.4	0.29	0.97	0.27	0.4	93.67
Campbell	43	46	3	371,953	137.88	11525.18	76.47	19.13	0.43	0.65	1.67	1.65
Mitchell	44	41	−3	367,433	136.21	11661.38	63.55	31.52	0.39	0.98	1.93	1.63
Roberts	45	43	−2	366,215	135.75	11797.14	79.56	15.86	0.47	0.85	1.67	1.58
Carter	46	40	−6	362,548	134.4	11931.53	60.51	34.99	0.39	0.71	1.88	1.52
Phillips	47	45	−2	351,848	130.43	12061.96	78.95	16.36	0.45	0.99	1.68	1.58
Evans	48	48	0	342,237	126.87	12188.83	70.65	25.05	0.4	0.68	1.67	1.55
Turner	49	44	−5	335,663	124.43	12313.26	66.67	29.31	0.33	0.56	1.72	1.4
Torres	50	67	17	325,169	120.54	12433.8	6.05	0.58	1.42	0.26	0.53	91.16
Parker	51	47	−4	324,246	120.2	12554	71.49	24.09	0.44	0.85	1.67	1.46
Collins	52	50	−2	317,848	117.83	12671.82	73.92	21.7	0.37	0.75	1.65	1.61
Edwards	53	49	−4	317,070	117.54	12789.36	65.16	30.21	0.4	0.75	1.84	1.63
Stewart	54	51	−3	312,899	115.99	12905.35	71.78	23.83	0.38	0.74	1.69	1.59
Flores	55	89	34	312,615	115.89	13021.23	5.57	0.47	2.15	0.43	0.54	90.84
Morris	56	53	−3	311,754	115.57	13136.8	75.92	19.29	0.43	0.93	1.7	1.73
Nguyen	57	228	172	310,125	114.96	13251.76	1.26	0.18	95.93	0.04	2.01	0.58
Murphy	58	59	1	300,501	111.39	13363.16	85.05	11.03	0.43	0.65	1.29	1.54
Rivera	59	61	2	299,463	111.01	13474.17	5.92	1.06	2.06	0.24	0.55	90.17
Cook	60	56	−4	294,795	109.28	13583.45	83.52	12.27	0.44	0.86	1.48	1.42
Rogers	61	54	−7	294,403	109.13	13692.58	77.8	17.66	0.42	0.77	1.58	1.77
Morgan	62	57	−5	276,400	102.46	13795.04	78.47	16.47	0.42	1.15	1.64	1.86
Peterson	63	68	5	275,041	101.96	13897	86.29	9.58	0.52	0.7	1.33	1.56
Cooper	64	66	−2	270,097	100.12	13997.12	70.36	25.26	0.4	0.76	1.69	1.54
Reed	65	55	−10	267,443	99.14	14096.26	73.51	21.97	0.4	1	1.67	1.45
Bailey	66	60	−6	265,916	98.57	14194.84	74.77	21.14	0.4	0.61	1.63	1.45
Bell	67	58	−9	264,752	98.14	14292.98	63.57	31.78	0.41	0.9	1.8	1.55
Gomez	68	121	53	263,590	97.71	14390.69	6.1	0.81	1.04	0.34	0.54	91.16
Kelly	69	74	5	260,385	96.52	14487.22	80.39	15.48	0.49	0.55	1.35	1.73
Howard	70	65	−5	254,779	94.45	14581.66	66.83	28.69	0.38	0.82	1.74	1.55
Ward	71	66	−5	254,121	94.2	14675.86	77.79	17.77	0.4	0.83	1.57	1.64
Cox	72	64	−8	253,771	94.07	14769.94	84.48	11.55	0.39	0.64	1.42	1.52
Diaz	73	99	26	251,772	93.33	14863.27	6.17	0.73	1.19	0.22	0.47	91.22
Richardson	74	63	−11	249,533	92.5	14955.77	62.25	32.77	0.36	1.05	1.82	1.75
Wood	75	78	3	247,299	91.67	15047.44	90.06	5.61	0.51	0.82	1.4	1.6
Watson	76	72	−4	242,432	89.87	15137.31	68.58	26.85	0.47	0.8	1.72	1.58
Brooks	77	73	−4	240,751	89.25	15226.56	62.72	32.67	0.41	0.75	1.83	1.62
Bennett	78	77	−1	239,055	88.62	15315.17	79	16.51	0.41	0.89	1.54	1.65
Gray	79	69	−10	236,713	87.75	15402.92	71.13	24.36	0.44	0.84	1.66	1.57
James	80	71	−9	233,224	86.46	15489.38	54.45	38.09	0.81	2.51	2.1	2.04
Reyes	81	141	60	232,511	86.19	15575.57	5.26	0.75	6.02	0.3	0.76	86.9
Cruz	82	118	36	231,065	85.66	15661.22	5.95	0.83	5.61	0.38	0.99	86.24
Hughes	83	88	5	229,390	85.03	15746.26	80.6	15.45	0.39	0.52	1.46	1.58
Price	84	76	−8	228,756	84.8	15831.06	76.11	19.79	0.42	0.64	1.58	1.46
Myers	85	101	16	224,824	83.34	15914.4	86.59	9.75	0.38	0.53	1.35	1.4
Long	86	86	0	223,494	82.85	15997.25	82.35	11.75	1.78	1.21	1.44	1.47
Foster	87	93	6	221,040	81.94	16079.19	72	23.19	0.46	0.86	1.78	1.7
Sanders	88	75	−13	220,902	81.89	16161.07	63.44	31.9	0.33	0.85	1.73	1.76
Ross	89	80	−9	219,961	81.54	16242.61	71.46	23.67	0.46	0.89	1.69	1.82
Morales	90	136	46	217,642	80.68	16323.29	5.6	0.6	1.24	0.25	0.44	91.88
Powell	91	85	−6	216,553	80.28	16403.57	69.96	25.97	0.38	0.56	1.71	1.41
Sullivan	92	105	13	215,640	79.94	16483.5	89.45	6.78	0.46	0.52	1.16	1.63
Russell	93	97	4	215,432	79.86	16563.36	79.45	15.79	0.43	1	1.7	1.63
Ortiz	94	120	26	214,683	79.58	16642.95	5.4	0.64	0.68	0.48	0.45	92.35
Jenkins	95	83	−12	213,737	79.23	16722.18	60.12	35.97	0.33	0.55	1.69	1.34
Gutierrez	96	202	106	212,905	78.92	16801.1	5.21	0.25	1.4	0.33	0.42	92.39
Perry	97	84	−13	212,644	78.83	16879.93	70.71	24.37	0.46	0.82	1.86	1.78
Butler	98	91	−7	210,879	78.17	16958.1	64.75	30.85	0.35	0.81	1.75	1.5
Barnes	99	79	−20	210,426	78	17036.1	67.45	28.23	0.4	0.72	1.71	1.49
Fisher	100	113	13	210,279	77.95	17114.05	84.59	11.28	0.42	0.71	1.42	1.58

Texas (Texan)

There were 440,455 different surnames registered in Texas as of 1995. 95% of these consisted of just 54,277 surnames. Spanish surnames are 12 of the top 20 most common surnames, though they are only approximately 30% of the state's total.^[11]

1995 Rank	Name	Number of people
1	Smith	188,840
2	Garcia	173,892
3	Martinez	146,931
4	Williams	146,796
5	Johnson	145,330
6	Rodriguez	131,580
7	Jones	129,189
8	Hernandez	117,329
9	Brown	106,701
10	Davis	101,558
11	Garza	86,876
12	Lopez	83,453
13	Gonzalez	81,915
14	Perez	74,777
15	Flores	70,232
16	Gonzales	69,800
17	Ramirez	68,769
18	Jackson	68,534
19	Moore	67,615
20	Wilson	65,691
21	Sanchez	65,641
22	Taylor	64,681
23	Miller	62,416
24	Thomas	57,681
25	White	55,871
26	Thompson	53,211
27	Harris	53,185
28	Martin	51,774
29	Walker	50,402
30	Anderson	48,367
31	Lewis	45,056
32	Allen	44,072
33	Torres	42,287
34	Green	41,906
35	Clark	39,801
36	Gomez	39,210
37	Hill	39,075
38	King	37,787
39	Wright	37,163
40	Hall	37,041
41	Young	36,035
42	Castillo	35,993
43	Lee	35,909
44	Adams	35,799
45	Trevino	35,626
46	Scott	35,450
47	Gutierrez	35,195
48	Robinson	35,117
49	Reyes	35,092
50	Vasquez	34,045

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↑ "Texas Vital Record Indexes, 1926–1995". Texas: State of Texas. 1995. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)

External links

"How Popular is Your Last Name?" searchable data base from 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census, on PBS.org

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