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

Top 10 common surnames in Canada ^[1]

Rank	Surname	Number
1	Smith	192,145
2	Brown	108,859
3	Tremblay	106,668
4	Martin	91,680
5	Roy	90,417
6	Gagnon	85,120
7	Lee	83,424
8	Wilson	82,768
9	Johnson	79,492
10	MacDonald	78,766

Québec

Top 10 common surnames in Quebec as of 2006. ^[2]

Rank	Surname	% of pop
1	Tremblay	1.08%
2	Gagnon	0.790%
3	Roy	0.753%
4	Côté	0.624%
5	Bouchard	0.530%
6	Gauthier	0.522%
7	Morin	0.498%
8	Lavoie	0.458%
9	Fortin	0.449%
10	Gagné	0.448%

Costa Rica

Most common surnames in Costa Rica as of 2007. ^[3]

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

Cuba

Most common surnames in Cuba. ^[4]

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

Dominican Republic

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

El Salvador

Most common surnames in El Salvador as of 2005. ^[5]

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

Guatemala

Most common surnames in Guatemala as of 2015. ^[7]

#	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 [8]	100%

Mexico

Below are the most common surnames of Mexico. All of the surnames listed are of Spanish origin. ^[9]

Rank	Surname	Number
1	Hernández	5,526,929
2	García	4,129,360
3	Martínez	3,886,887
4	González	3,188,693
5	López	3,148,024
6	Rodríguez	2,744,179
7	Pérez	2,746,468
8	Sánchez	2,234,625
9	Ramírez	2,070,723
10	Flores	1,392,707
11	Gómez	989,295
12	Torres	841,966
13	Díaz	811,553
14	Vásquez	806,894
15	Cruz	800,874
16	Morales	771,796
17	Gutiérrez	748,789
18	Reyes	738,320
19	Ruíz	708,718
20	Jiménez	670,453
21	Mendoza	613,683
22	Aguilar	611,904
23	Ortíz	576,989
24	Álvarez	557,332
25	Castillo	553,799
26	Romero	540,922
27	Moreno	539,927
28	Chávez	517,392
29	Rivera	508,022
30	Ramos	455,728
31	Herrera	451,226
32	Medina	431,518
33	Vargas	427,854
34	Castro	419,216
35	Méndez	410,239
36	Guzmán	392,284
37	Fernández	385,741
38	Juárez	384,929
39	Muñoz	376,633
40	Ortega	372,471
41	Salazar	368,231
42	Rojas	365,457
43	Guerrero	361,557
44	Contreras	358,521
45	Luna	357,578
46	Domínguez	348,182
47	Garza	335,829
48	Velásquez	331,510
49	Estrada	324,103
50	Soto	306,227
51	Cortez	301,954
52	Lara	298,034
53	Espinoza	289,842
54	Vega	285,864
55	Ávila	284,530
56	Cervantes	276,101
57	Sandoval	273,091
58	Carrillo	267,333
59	Alvarado	266,993
60	Silva	265,553
61	León	260,246
62	Ríos	260,141
63	Navarro	258,408
64	Delgado	254,273
65	Márquez	248,933
66	Campos	246,709
67	Ibarra	241,343
68	Solís	240,008
69	Rosas	237,339
70	Miranda	233,910
71	Camacho	233,858
72	Valdez	232,680
73	Cárdenas	230,848
74	Orozco	228,963
75	Aguirre	228,754
76	Mejía	227,392
77	Acosta	224,385
78	Padilla	223,205
79	Robles	222,472
80	Núñez	222,153
81	Peña	220,868
82	Cabrera	220,647
83	Rosales	218,935
84	Molina	217,049
85	Pacheco	212,981
86	Castañeda	212,078
87	Fuentes	210,342
88	Valenzuela	210,221
89	Rangel	209,232
90	Ayala	208,964
91	Meza	207,662
92	Nava	203,308
93	Valencia	198,634
94	Maldonado	195,043
95	Ochoa	192,341
96	Serrano	185,071
97	Tapia	183,351
98	Salinas	183,098
99	Suárez	182,020
100	Zamora	181,835

United States

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 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.^{[ citation needed ]}Garcia and Martinez represent the rapid growth of several Hispanic communities in the United States.

According to the table below, from the 2000 U.S. census, 17.11% of Americans have a surname among the top 100. On the other hand, 13.97% of Americans have a surname that occurs fewer than 100 times in the entire population.

Top surnames according to the 2010 U.S. census may be found here.

During the 2000 U.S. census, the top one 100 surnames in the U.S. were: ^{[10] [11] [12]}

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

See also

• North America portal

• List of family name affixes
• List of most popular given names
• Lists of most common surnames, for other continents

References

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Further reading

• 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

External links

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