Lists of most common surnames in North American countries

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This article contains lists of the most common surnames in some of the countries of North America. Countries are arranged in alphabetical order.

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Canada

Top 10 common surnames in Canada [1]
RankSurnameNumber
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]

RankSurname % 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]

#SurnamePersons % 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)4,016,173100.00

Cuba

Most common surnames in Cuba. [4]

RankSurnameNumber
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

#SurnameAdults % of adultsOrigin
1 Rodríguez 225,321—Spanish
2 Pérez 158,059—Spanish
3 Martínez 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]

#SurnameNumber 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]

#SurnamePersons % of pop.
1 López 371,5252.5%
2 García 285,6701.9%
3 Morales 228,1671.5%
4 Hernández 222,7551.5%
5 Pérez 209,9631.4%
6 González 208,7951.4%
7 Rodríguez 135,9780.9%
8 De León 134,0100.9%
9 Ramírez 131,7960.9%
10 Martínez 123,1860.8%
11 Castillo 116,2980.8%
12 Estrada 115,2520.8%
13 Marroquín 113,9610.8%
14 Gómez 110,8240.7%
15 Vásquez 102,1530.7%
16 Méndez 98,4620.7%
17 Reyes 95,4490.6%
18 Díaz 94,4030.6%
19 Aguilar 94,0960.6%
20 Velásquez 89,9750.6%
First 203,082,71820.7%
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]

RankSurnameNumber
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

The table below presents the most common 100 surnames as of the 2010 Census. It includes the total number of people with each surname as well as the rate per 100,000 people. Figures for the 2000 Census are also included for comparison. [10]

In 2010, there were 51,089,493 people with last names in the top 100, representing 16.5% of the total (308,745,538). Surnames appearing less than 100 times represented less than 10% of the population. [11] The most common surname remains Smith; over two million Americans have that name and it is the most common name for white, native and multiracial residents. The most common name among black Americans was Williams and the most common name among Asian Americans was Nguyen. The name Wilson was 10th in the 2000 census but was replaced by Martinez in 2010. The names Garcia and Rodriguez had previously entered the top ten in the 2000 Census, replacing Taylor and Moore. [12]

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  6. ↑ CIA (14 July 2022). "El Salvador". CIA World Factbook. Langley, Virginia: CIA.
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