Surnames by origin
Grouped by the language each surname came from, as recorded in Wiktionary. Each list is ordered by how many people carry the name in the United States.
| Origin | Most common | Surnames |
|---|---|---|
| English surnames | Smith, Brown, Anderson, Lee | 1,446 |
| German surnames | Wagner, Schmidt, Hoffman, Weber | 1,101 |
| Spanish surnames | Garcia, Rodriguez, Martinez, Hernandez | 992 |
| Irish surnames | Carter, Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan | 880 |
| Italian surnames | Bruno, Romano, Montano, Rossi | 798 |
| French surnames | Henry, Palmer, Black, Warren | 791 |
| Polish surnames | Nowak, Kowalski, Kaminski, Lewandowski | 304 |
| Scottish Gaelic surnames | Campbell, Ross, Alexander, Murray | 277 |
| Chinese surnames | Chen, Li, Wong, Wang | 193 |
| Arabic surnames | Ali, Ahmed, Hassan, Muhammad | 179 |
| Dutch surnames | Snyder, Hartman, Kramer, Kemp | 167 |
| Swedish surnames | Olson, Lindquist, Monson, Lindberg | 133 |
| Norman surnames | White, Lewis, Russell, Wallace | 128 |
| Norse surnames | Howard, Carr, Becker, Gill | 126 |
| Japanese surnames | Tanaka, Nakamura, Yamamoto, Sato | 123 |
| Czech surnames | Novak, Tabor, Marek, Dvorak | 96 |
| Latin surnames | Thomas, Martin, Carpenter, George | 91 |
| Portuguese surnames | Silva, Rocha, Acevedo, Duarte | 71 |
| Welsh surnames | Evans, Price, Powell, Rice | 60 |
| Hebrew surnames | Perez, Elliott, Joseph, Cohen | 51 |
| Danish surnames | Hansen, Carlson, Jensen, Christensen | 50 |
| Hindi surnames | Sharma, Rana, Verma, Agarwal | 48 |
| Armenian surnames | Vartanian, Nazarian, Grigoryan, Hagopian | 47 |
| Hungarian surnames | Toth, Horvath, Nagy, Kovacs | 46 |
| Greek surnames | Jordan, Lucas, Gregory, Daniel | 45 |
| Korean surnames | Kim, Chung, Hahn, Lim | 42 |
| Catalan surnames | Acosta, Sales, Orta, Bosch | 39 |
| Punjabi surnames | Singh, Sandhu, Dhillon, Sidhu | 39 |
| Galician surnames | Andrade, Varela, Ulloa, Botello | 34 |
| Vietnamese surnames | Nguyen, Tran, Pham, Huynh | 31 |
| Yiddish surnames | Meyer, Shapiro, Keim, Karp | 31 |
| Norwegian surnames | Larsen, Haugen, Moen, Bergen | 31 |
| Persian surnames | Shah, Akhtar, Shabazz, Sarkar | 28 |
| Serbo-Croatian surnames | Petrovic, Jovanovic, Hodzic, Markovic | 26 |
| Sanskrit surnames | Jain, Bhatt, Mishra, Anand | 24 |
| Russian surnames | Lara, Kogan, Dubinsky, Abramov | 24 |
| Ukrainian surnames | Koval, Boyko, Spivak, Melnyk | 22 |
| Bengali surnames | Chowdhury, Das, Uddin, Ghosh | 21 |
| Basque surnames | Orozco, Tapia, Arriaga, Garay | 20 |
| Khmer surnames | Sok, Chea, Vong, Uy | 19 |
| Cornish surnames | Chenoweth, Penrose, Killebrew, Lamphere | 18 |
| Gujarati surnames | Patel, Desai, Mehta, Parikh | 18 |
| Tamil surnames | Iyer, Krishnan, Natarajan, Pillai | 15 |