Last Names: Discover Popular Surnames Across The World

What are the most common last names throughout the world? If you want to know the answer to this question, you have come to the right place. In this list, you will find many examples of last names from Spain, United States, England, France, Italy, Japan, and many other parts of the world. 

For example,  we've also included Gypsy and Jewish surnames, which are not associated with a specific region. Regarding Latin American surnames, we will focus on those that are characteristic to each country, since Spanish surnames such as "García", "Hernández" and "López" are very common in most Hispanic countries. 

Last names in the U.S. 

 

• Anderson

• Brown

• Clark

• Davis

• Garcia

• Harris

• Hernandez

• Jackson

• Johnson

• Jones

• Lee

• Lewis

• Martin

• Martinez

• Miller

• Moore

• Robinson

• Rodriguez

• Smith

• Taylor

• Thomas

• Thompson

• White

• Williams

• Wilson

 

British last names

• Brown

• Clarke

• Davies

• Edwards

• Evans

• Green

• Harris

• Hughes

• Jackson

• Johnson

• Jones

• Lewis

• Martin

• Roberts

• Robinson

• Smith

• Taylor

• Thomas

• Thompson

• Walker

• White

• Williams

• Wilson

• Wood

• Wright

Spanish last names

 

• Alonso

• Álvarez

• Blanco

• Castro

• Delgado

• Díaz

• Domínguez

• Fernández

• García

• Gil

• Gómez

• González

• Gutiérrez

• Hernández

• Iglesias

• Jiménez

• López

• Marín

• Martín

• Martínez

• Medina

• Molina

• Morales

• Moreno

• Muñoz

• Navarro

• Núñez

• Ortega

• Ortiz

• Pérez

• Ramos

• Rodríguez

• Romero

• Rubio

• Ruiz

• Sánchez

• Sanz

• Serrano

• Suárez

• Torres

• Vaca

• Vázquez

Mexican last names

 

• Alvarado

• Amador

• Bautista

• Canche

• Canul

• Chan

• Chávez

• Chi

• Córdova

• De la Cruz

• Flores

• Garza

• Guzmán

• Juárez

• May

• Mendoza

• Meza

• Montejo

• Morales

• Osuna

• Nava

• Pech

• Poot

• Rangel

• Rosas

• Salazar

• Sandoval

• Trejo

• Treviño

• Uc

• Valdez

• Valenzuela

• Vargas

Colombian last names

 

• Arias

• Cárdenas

• Cardona

• Castillo

• Correa

• Cortés

• Escobar

• Flórez

• Giraldo

• Herrera

• Jaramillo

• Medina

• Mejía

• Montoya

• Morales

• Osorio

• Parra

• Restrepo

• Rincón

• Rivera

• Rojas

• Salazar

• Valencia

• Vargas

• Velásquez

• Quintero

• Zapata

Argentinian last names

 

• Acosta

• Ayala

• Benítez

• Blanco

• Bonilla

• Bravo

• Burgos

• Cortés

• Díez

• Flores

• Giménez

• Heredia

• Medina

• Romero

• Serrano

• Sosa

• Vera

Peruvian last names

 

• Castillo

• Chávez

• Condori

• Cruz

• Espinoza

• Flores

• Huamán

• León

• Mamani

• Mayta

• Mendoza

• Paredes

• Quispe

• Ramírez

• Ramos

• Reyes

• River

• Rojas

• Salazar

• Vásquez

• Vargas

• Vilca

French last names

• André

• Bernard

• Blanc

• Bertrand

• Bonnet

• David

• Dubois

• Dupont

• Durand

• Fournier

• François

• Garcia

• Garnier

• Girard

• Lambert

• Laurent

• Lefebvre

• Lefèvre

• Leroy

• Martin

• Martinez

• Mercier

• Michel

• Moreau

• Morel

• Petit

• Richard

• Robert

• Rousseau

• Roux

• Simon

• Thomas

• Vincent

Italian last names

 

• Barbieri

• Bianchi

• Bruno

• Caruso

• Colombo

• Conti

• Costa

• De Luca

• Esposito

• Ferrara

• Fontana

• Galli

• Gallo

• Giordano

• Greco

• Ferrari

• Leone

• Lombardi

• Mancini

• Mariani

• Marino

• Martini

• Ricci

• Rinaldi

• Rizzo

• Romano

• Rossi

• Russo

• Santoro

Japanese last names

 

• Abe

• Hashimoto

• Hayashi

• Ikeda

• Inoue

• Ishikawa

• Ito

• Kato

• Kimura

• Kobayashi

• Maeda

• Matsumoto

• Mori

• Nakajima

• Nakamura

• Saito

• Sasaki

• Sato

• Shimizu

• Suzuki

• Takahashi

• Tanaka

• Watanabe

• Yamada

• Yamaguchi

• Yamamoto

• Yamashita

• Yamazaki

• Yoshida

Russian last names

 

• Alekseev/a

• Aleksandrov/a

• Andreev/a

• Egorov/a

• Fedorov/a

• Grigorev/a

• Ivanov/a

• Kozlov/a

• Kuznetsov/a

• Lebedev/a

• Makarov/a

• Mikhaylov/a

• Morozov/a

• Nikolaev/a

• Novikov/a

• Orlov/a

• Pavlov/a

• Petrov/a

• Popov/a

• Semenov/a

• Smirnov/a

• Sokolov/a

• Stepanov/a

• Vasilev/a

• Volkov/a

• Zakharov/a

• Zaytsev/a

Arab last names

• Abid

• Ahmad

• Alaoui

• Ali

• Assaf

• Benchikh

• Essa

• Haddad

• Hamedi

• Hassan

• Khalil

• Khan

• Khoury

• Malik

• Mansoor

• Mekki

• Mohamed

• Musa

• Naser

• Qasim

• Rahman

• Turk

Jewish last names

• Abrams

• Baron

• Becker

• Benjamin

• Blum

• Cohen

• Eisen

• Geller

• Goldberg

• Goldman

• Green

• Horowitz

• Kaplan

• Kauffman

• Koppelman

• Kravitz

• Landau

• Levi

• Lieberman

• Peretz

• Perlman

• Rosenberg

• Roth

• Rothschild

• Schneider

• Schreiber

• Segal

• Shapiro

• Soros

• Weiss

• Wexler

Catalan last names

 

• Alemany

• Armengol

• Bosch

• Codina

• Comas

• Ferrer

• Fortuny

• Gil

• Grau

• Gual

• Marin

• Martí

• Mas

• Molina

• Nadal

• Pons

• Puig

• Reixach

• Robert

• Roca

• Roig

• Ros

• Sabater

• Sala

• Serra

• Soler

• Vidal

• Vila

• Vives

Basque last names

 

• Aguirre

• Aramburu

• Bengoa

• Echeverri

• Eguiguren

• Elizalde

• Elizondo

• Elordi

• Garmendia

• Gaztañaga

• Goenaga

• Goikoetxea

• Goñiz

• Gurruchaga

• Irureta

• Iturralde

• Larralde

• Larramendi

• Loyola

• Mihura

• Ochoa

• Sagasti

• Uribe

• Urrutia

• Ybarra

• Yuste

• Zulueta

Galician last names

 

• Calvo

• Castro

• Gallego

• Lago

• Mariño

• Mosquera

• Mosqueira

• Páez

• Pazo

• Prieto

• Río

• Rivas

• Rivera

• Román

• Santana

• Santiago

• Suárez

• Quiroga

• Ulloa

• Vázquez

• Vidal

•  This article about "Last Names Across The World" was originally published in Spanish in Viviendo La Salud