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The most common was, in 2000 :
1-Smith
2-Johnson
3-Williams
4-Brown
5-Jones
6-Miller
7-Davis
8-Garcia
9-Rodriguez
10-Wilson
We know one thing for 2010 : Apparently Garcia surpassed Brown ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html ).We can expect a realrising of hispanic and Asian names in 2010.Why ? Strong hispanic/asian immigration and more births for Hispanic/Asian in the US.
The first Asian name on the list is Nguyen (59th), a vietnamian family name.
I'm a bit surprised that I don't seem to see a Chinese name in the top 200. Although "Lee" I guess is a bit ambiguous of a last name as it can be English, Korean, or Chinese.
My last name isn't in the top 100, but is in the top 500. That they have an racial breakdown I guess deals with the question about Lee. It says 37.83% of the Lees are Asian/Pacific-Islander. There are German-sounding last names, like Schroeder and Mueller, that seem to be 95%+ "white." That might be expected. The "whitest" last name I find is "Yoder", which I know is highly associated to Mennonite/Amish families. Although it looks like there is around 60 blacks and 80 Asians with the "Yoder" surname. The "blackest" surname in the US I guess is Jefferson, even if that sounds a tad cliche. And I think maybe I should stop there as I worry it's sounding racist.
Names it was kind of fun to see include Cervantes, like the Don Quixote writer, at 522.
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I'm a bit surprised that I don't seem to see a Chinese name in the top 200. Although "Lee" I guess is a bit ambiguous of a last name as it can be English, Korean, or Chinese.
My last name isn't in the top 100, but is in the top 500. That they have an racial breakdown I guess deals with the question about Lee. It says 37.83% of the Lees are Asian/Pacific-Islander. There are German-sounding last names, like Schroeder and Mueller, that seem to be 95%+ "white." That might be expected. The "whitest" last name I find is "Yoder", which I know is highly associated to Mennonite/Amish families. Although it looks like there is around 60 blacks and 80 Asians with the "Yoder" surname. The "blackest" surname in the US I guess is Jefferson, even if that sounds a tad cliche. And I think maybe I should stop there as I worry it's sounding racist.
Names it was kind of fun to see include Cervantes, like the Don Quixote writer, at 522.
It's surprising for chinese names yeah, but you can be sure chinese surnames will rise strongly in 2010 compared to 2000 because the US welcomed about 700,000 chinese immigrants for the last decade, and births of chinese americans boomed too (22,000 in 1990...44,000 in 2006).
Nguyen is so common in Vietnam, about 33% of vietnamese have this surname so it's not a surprise to see its domination.This name will gain many places I think.
I expect too a real rising for the surname Patel, because indian immigration and births boomed in the US.
You can see that too : Arab surnames are pretty rare, but you'll see them in 2010 because the immigration has boomed from Somalia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Morocco,Indonesia...And they make many babies too.
I red that on the NYT article : more than 6 million surnames in the USA it's just huge !
Do you know the USA is the most diversified country about surnames (and ethnicity too) ?
And apparently it's just the beginning.
I red that on the NYT article : more than 6 million surnames in the USA it's just huge !
Do you know the USA is the most diversified country about surnames (and ethnicity too) ?
And apparently it's just the beginning.
I have always thought that France was the country with the greatest variety of surnames...
I have always thought that France was the country with the greatest variety of surnames...
France ? My country ? Seriously ? Not really.One of the most diverse about surnames certainly but not the most diverse.
In France surnames are mostly french, with a sizeable number of italian/portuguese/arab surnames.
But the USA have all english/scottish/irish/italian/hispanic/vietnamese/chinese/german/polish/russian/scandinavian/japanese/korean/netherlands surnames and the mzjority of indian/arab/portuguese surnames.
The immigration is really stronger in the US than France, you can't compare them.
Wow, my last name is in the top 200 which is kind of surprising to me. Almost made the top 150, but fell short a few places.
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