Numele de familie pot fi unice sau să existe un număr mare de oameni care să le poarte. În țări diferite, unele nume sunt mai obișnuite decât altele.
Aici este o listă alfabetică, după numele țării:
Argentina
Gonzalez Rodriguez Lopez Garcia Gomez
Belgia
(la 1 ianuarie 2002)
Peeters 33,273 Janssens 31,529 Maes 25,654 Jacobs 20,229 Mertens 18,927 Willems 18,604 Claes 16,822 Goossens 16,202 Wouters 15,950 De Smet 14,491
Toate acestea sunt nume de origine flamandă; cel mai uzual nume francez este Dubois (aprox. 11.000)
Bulgaria
Ivanov Petrov Georgiev Dimitrov
Cehia Novák (70 504) Svoboda (52 088) Novotný (49 962) Dvořák (46 099) Černý (36 743) Procházka (33 274) Kučera (31 286) Veselý (26 481) Horák (25 174) Němec (22 795) Marek (22 548) Pokorný (22 203) Pospíšil (22 189) Hájek (21 276) Jelínek (20 733) Král (20 510) Růžička (19846) Beneš (19 600) Fiala (19 121) Sedláček (18 484) Include nume feminizate(m. Novák - f. Nováková).
Sursă: Ministerul de Interne (2002)
Chile Sursa: Starea Civilă și Serviciul Identificare din Chile (2008) González Muñoz Rojas Díaz Pérez Soto Contreras Silva Martínez Sepúlveda Morales Rodríguez López Fuente Hernández Torres Araya Flores Espinoza Valenzuela
China (bazat pe 2007 privind statisticile) 王 Wang-92,881,000 李 Li-92,074,000 张 Zhang-87,502,000 刘 Liu 陈 Chen 杨 Yang 黄 Huang 赵 Zhao 吴 Wu 周 Zhou >20,000,000 徐 Xu 孙 Sun 马 Ma 朱 Zhu 胡 Hu 郭 Guo 何 He 高 Gao 林 Lin 罗 Luo 郑 Zheng 梁 Liang >10,000,000
Coreea
김 (金) Kim 이 (李) Lee 박 (朴) Park 최 (崔) Choi 전 (鄭) Jeon 강 (姜) Kang 조 (趙) Jo 윤 (尹) Yun 장 (張) Jang 림 (林) Lim(Im, Yim) 오 (吳) Oh 한 (韓) Han 신 (申) Shin 서 (徐) Seo 권 (權) Kwan 황 (黃) Hwang 안 (安) An 송 (宋) Song 류 (柳) Ryu 홍 (洪) Hong 전 (全) Jeon 고 (高) Go 문 (文) Mun 손 (孫) Son 양 (梁) Yang 배 (裵) Bae 백 (白) Baek 허 (許) He 남 (南) Nam
Danemarca
Cele mai uzuale nume daneze(2004)
Jensen 303089 Nielsen 296850 Hansen 248968 Pedersen 186913 Andersen 172894 Christensen 133033 Larsen 129662 Sørensen 124175 Rasmussen 104130 Jørgensen 98354 Petersen 92189 Madsen 70176 Kristensen 65074 Olsen 54044 Thomsen 40514 Christiansen 40224 Poulsen 34203 Johansen 33120 Knudsen 31977 Mortensen 31252
Estonia
Tamm Mägi
Franța Martin Bernard Dupont
Germania date din 1995 Müller (9,5%) Schmidt (6,9%) Schneider (4,0%) Fischer (3,5%) Weber (3,4%) Meyer (3,3%) Weber (3,0%) Schulz (2,7%) Wagner (2,7%) Becker (2,7%) Hoffmann (2,6%)
(conform Kunze (1999): dtv-Atlas Namenkunde. München: dtv, S. 198)
India
Singh Kumar Sharma sau Sarma Patel Shah Lal Gupta Bhat Rao Reddy Jain Sastri sau Shastri Iyer Iyengar
Irlanda top 20, vezi: Murphy (#1) Kelly O'Sullivan Walsh Smith O'Brien Byrne Ryan O'Connor O'Neill O'Reilly Doyle McCarthy Gallagher O'Doherty Kennedy Lynch Murray Quinn Moore Horan Numele începând cu O' sunt patronimice.
Israel Cohen (כהן) Levi (לוי)
Japonia
(佐藤) Sato (鈴木) Suzuki (高橋) Takahashi (田中) Tanaka (渡辺) Watanabe (伊藤) Ito (山本) Yamamoto (中村) Nakamura (小林) Kobayashi (斎藤) Saito (加藤) Kato (吉田) Yoshida (山田) Yamada (佐々木) Sasaki (山口) Yamaguchi (松本) Matsumoto (井上) Inoue (木村) Kimura (林) Hayashi (清水) Shimizu
Norvegia Hansen (1.31%) Olsen (1.21%) Johansen (1.21%) Larsen (0.90%) Andersen (0.88%) Nilsen (0.83%) Pedersen (0.82%) Kristiansen (0.55%) Jensen (0.54%) Karlsen (0.50%) Johnsen (0.48%) Pettersen (0.47%) Eriksen (0.44%) Berg (0.41%) Haugen (0.32%) Hagen (0.32%) Johannessen (0.31%) Andreassen (0.28%) Jacobsen (0.27%) Halvorsen (0.27%) Numele care se termină în sen erau la început patronimice.
Sursă: Statistics Norway
Nuevo León, (Mexic) Martínez (8.50%) Rodríguez (8.14%) García (7.14%) González (7.09%) Hernández (7.06%)
Sursă: GARCÍA, Miriam Para regios...los Martínez Periódico El Norte 18 de marzo de 2003.
Polonia Nowak (203 506) Kowalski (139 719) Wiśniewski (109 855) Wójcik (99 509) Kowalczyk (97 796) Kamiński (94 499) Lewandowski (92 449) Zieliński (91 043) Szymański (89 091) Woźniak (88 039) Dąbrowski (86 132) Kozłowski (75 962) Jankowski (68 514) Mazur (66 773) Wojciechowski (66 361) Kwiatkowski (66 017) Krawczyk (64 048) Kaczmarek (61 816) Piotrowski (61 380) Grabowski (58 393) Sursă: Zawadzki J.M, 2002, 1000 Najpopularniejszych nazwisk w Polsce [1000 dintre cele mai uzuale nume în Poland], Warsaw: Świat Książki
Quebec, Canada Tremblay (1.13%) Gagnon (0.82%) Roy (0.77%) Côté (0.74%) Bouchard (0.56%) Gauthier (0.55%) Morin (0.51%) Lavoie (0.49%) Fortin (0.47%) Gagné (0.47%) Pelletier (0.45%) Bélanger (0.44%) Bergeron (0.41%) Lévesque (0.41%) Simard (0.38%) Girard (0.37%) Leblanc (0.37%) Boucher (0.35%) Ouellet (0.34%) Caron (0.32%) Beaulieu (0.31%) Poirier (0.31%) Dubé (0.31%) Cloutier (0.31%) Fournier (0.30%) Lapointe (0.30%) Lefebvre (0.29%) Poulin (0.28%) Nadeau (0.28%) Martin (0.27%) St-Pierre (0.27%) Martel (0.26%) Grenier (0.26%) Landry (0.26%) Lessard (0.26%) Leclerc (0.25%) Bédard (0.25%) Bernier (0.24%) Couture (0.24%) Richard (0.23%) Michaud (0.23%) Desjardins (0.23%) Hébert (0.22%) Blais (0.22%) Turcotte (0.22%) Savard (0.22%) Lachance (0.22%) Parent (0.22%) Demers (0.21%) Gosselin (0.21%) Procentaj total din populație: 17.82%
Surse: Institut de la statistique du Québec, Quelques Statistiques sur les Noms de Famille and Les 6 000 premiers noms de famille par ordre alphabétique, Québec
România
Popescu Ionescu Popa Pop Niță Nițu Constantinescu Stan Stanciu Dumitrescu Dima Gheorghiu Ioniță Marin Tudor Dobre Barbu Nistor Florea Frățilă Dinu Dinescu Georgescu Stoica Diaconu Diaconescu Mocanu Voinea Albu Petrescu Manole Cristea Toma Stănescu Pușcașu Tomescu Sava Ciobanu Rusu Ursu Lupu Munteanu Moldoveanu Mureșan Andreescu Sava Mihăilescu Iancu Teodorescu Moisescu Călinescu Tabacu Negoiță Ifrim Dabija Nedelcu
Rusia Sursă 1000 surnames of Krasnoyarsk Иванов (Ivanov) Кузнецов (Kuznetsov) Попов (Popov) Петров (Petrov) Васильев (Vasiliev) Смирнов (Smirnov) Козлов (Kozlov) Михайлов (Mihailov) Семенов (Semenov) Степанов (Stepanov)
Serbia și Muntenegru Petrović Jovanović
Țările de Jos
din recensământul din 1947
De Jong 55,256 De Vries 49,298 Jansen 49,213 Van den Berg 37,678 (inclusiv Van der Berg și Van de Berg) Bakker 37,483 Van Dijk 36,578 Visser 34,721 Janssen 32,824 Smit 29,783 Meijer, Meyer 28,256
Sursă: Meertens Instituut
Ungaria
Horváth Kovács Varga Tóth Nagy Balázs Szabó Molnár Balog Lukács
Spania Sursă: - Date din decembrie 1999.
Numele de familie care se termină în -ez sunt de obicei patronimice.
Suedia Statistici oficiale Johansson (3.3%) Andersson (3.2%) Karlsson (2.5%) Nilsson (2.2%) Eriksson (1.7%) Larsson (1.6%) Olsson (1.4%) Persson (1.4%) Svensson (1.3%) Gustafsson (0.90%) Pettersson (0.83%) Jonsson (0.72%) Jansson (0.63%) Hansson (0.54%) Bengtsson (0.42%) Jönsson (0.42%) Petersson (0.37%) Carlsson (0.34%) Gustavsson (0.32%) Magnusson (0.32%) Lindberg (0.31%) Olofsson (0.30%)
Regatul Unit
Bazat pe un sondaj: : Smith (1.15%) Jones (0.94%) Williams (0.66%) Taylor (0.53%) Brown (0.51%) Davies (0.48%) Evans (0.39%) Wilson (0.35%) Thomas (0.35%) Johnson (0.34%) Roberts (0.33%) Robinson (0.29%) Thompson (0.28%) Wright (0.28%) Walker (0.27%) White (0.27%) Edwards (0.27%) Hughes (0.26%) Green (0.25%) Hall (0.25%)
Statele Unite see recensământ Smith (1.006%) Johnson (0.810%) Williams (0.699%) Jones (0.621%) Brown (0.621%) Davis (0.480%) Miller (0.424%) Wilson (0.339%) Moore (0.312%) Taylor (0.311%) Anderson (0.311%) Thomas (0.311%) Jackson (0.310%) White (0.279%) Harris (0.275%) Martin (0.273%) Thompson (0.269%) Garcia (0.254%) Martinez (0.234%) Robinson (0.233%)
Vietnam Nguyễn (Nguyen)
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