List of most common surnames in Asia

This is a list of the most common surnames in Asia, in alphabetical order of the country.

Armenia
Rank Name Romanization Meaning
1 Հովհաննիսյան Hovhannisyan Son of Hovhannes (John)
2 Հարությունյան Harutyunyan Son of Harutyun ("resurrection")
3 Սարգսյան Sargsyan Son of Sargis
4 Խաչատրյան Khachatryan Son of Khachatur ("given by cross")
5 Գրիգորյան Grigoryan Son of Grigor (Gregory)

Azerbaijan
Rank[1] Name Romanization Meaning
1 Məmmədov Mammadov "Son of Mammad"
2 Əliyev Aliyev "Son of Ali"
3 Hüseynov Huseynov "Son of Hüseyn"
4 Həsənov Hasanov "Son of Hasan"
5 Quliyev Guliyev "Son of Qulu"
6 İsmayılov Ismayilov "Son of Ismayil"
7 Əhmədov Ahmadov "Son of Ahmad"
8 Abdullayev Abdullayev "Son of Abdulla"
9 Abbasov Abbasov "Son of Abbas"
10 Cəfərov Jafarov "Son of Jafar"

Bangladesh
Main article: Bangladeshi name

Cambodia
Main article: Cambodian name

China
See also: Chinese surname and List of common Chinese surnames

According to a report released by the Chinese Ministry for Public Security in January 2019, there are 6,150 different surnames in China with the top 100 surnames used by 85% of the population in 2018.[2]

Rank Name Romanization Total Number in China
(2018)[2]
Simp. Trad.
1 王Wáng [lower-alpha 1]/Wong101,500,000
2 李Lǐ [lower-alpha 2]/Lee100,900,000
3张張Zhāng [lower-alpha 3]/Cheung95,400,000
4刘劉Liú [lower-alpha 4]/Lau72,100,000
5陈陳Chén [lower-alpha 5]/ Chan63,000,000
6杨楊Yáng [lower-alpha 6] /Yeung46,200,000
7黄黃Huáng/Wong33,700,000
8赵趙Zhào/Chiu28,600,000
9吴吳Wú [lower-alpha 7]/Ng27,800,000
10 周Zhōu/Chow26,800,000
11 徐Xú [lower-alpha 8] /Tsui20,200,000
12孙孫Sūn/Suen19,400,000
13马馬Mǎ/Ma19,100,000
14 朱Zhū/Chu18,100,000
15 胡Hú/Woo16,500,000
16 郭Guō/Kwok15,800,000
17 何Hé/Ho14,800,000
18 林Lín/Lam14,200,000
19 高Gāo/Ko14,100,000
20罗羅Luó/Law14,000,000

Georgia
Main article: List of Georgian surnames
Rank Name Romanization Total Number[3]
(2010)
1 ბერიძე Beridze 24,962
2 მამედოვი Mamedov
Mamedovi		 23,675
3 კაპანაძე Kapanadze 17,202
4 გელაშვილი Gelashvili 16,350
5 ალიევი Aliyev
Alievi		 15,742
6 მაისურაძე Maisuradze 14,824
7 გიორგაძე Giorgadze 12,954
8 ლომიძე Lomidze 11,796
9 წიკლაური Tsiklauri 11,571
10 ბოლქვაძე Bolkvadze 10,916
11 კვარაცხელია Kvaratskhelia 10,447
12 ნოზაძე Nozadze 10,183
13 ხუციშვილი Khutsishvili 10,075
14 შენგელია Shengelia 9,928
15 აბულაძე Abuladze 9,663
16 მიქელაძე Mikeladze 9,220
17 ტაბატაძე Tabatadze 8,654
18 მჭედლიშვილი Mchedlishvili 8,446
19 ბაირამოვი Bairamov
Bairamovi		 8,373
20 გოგოლაძე Gogoladze 8,362

India
Main article: Indian names

Indonesia
Main article: Indonesian names

Most Indonesians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names.

Israel
Main articles: Hebrew surname and Jewish surname

Japan
Main article: List of common Japanese surnames

The most common Japanese surnames are Satō (佐藤), Suzuki (鈴木), Takahashi (高橋), Tanaka (田中) and Watanabe (渡辺).

Korea
Main article: List of Korean family names

Nepal

Surnames in Nepal are divided into three origins; Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins. Indo-Aryan surnames dominate over other language origin surnames.

Philippines
See also: Filipino name

The Catálogo alfabético de apellidos (English: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames; Tagalog: Alpabetikong Katalogo ng mga apelyedo) is a book of surnames in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies published in the mid-19th century. This was in response to a Spanish colonial decree establishing the distribution of Spanish family names and local surnames among colonial subjects who did not have a prior surname. It is also the reason why Filipinos share the same surnames of Spanish people.

The book was created after Spanish Governor-General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa issued a decree on 21 November 1849, to address the lack of a standard naming convention.[4] Newly-Christianised Filipinos often chose the now-ubiquitous surnames of de los Santos, de la Cruz, del Rosario, and Bautista for religious reasons; others preferred names of well-known local rulers such as Lacandola. To complicate matters further, discrepancies like family members holding different surnames would hinder some of the colonial government's activities such as taking a census and tax collection.

  1. Santos
  2. Reyes
  3. Cruz
  4. Bautista
  5. Del Rosario
  6. Gonzales
  7. Ramos
  8. Aquino
  9. Garcia
  10. De la Cruz
  11. Lopez
  12. Fernández
  13. Mendoza
  14. Morales
  15. Marquez
  16. Hernandez
  17. Navarro
  18. Sanchez
  19. De los Reyes
  20. De los Santos

Russia
Main article: Russian names

Sri Lanka
See also: Sinhalese name

Many low country Sinhalese have Portuguese surnames as a result of Portuguese colonial rule in that areas during the 16th and 17th centuries. Of Sinhalese own surnames, they have Sanskrit origination. Tamils and Sri Lankan Moors have distinctive surnames for their own ethnicity.

Many Sinhalese surnames end with Singhe (Sinhalese: සිංහයා meaning lion), such as Jayasinghe, Ranasinghe, Samarasinghe, etc.

Rank

(2014)

 Name Total Number

(2014)

 Language of origin and meaning
1 Perera 862,080 Portuguese
2 Fernando 520,965 Portuguese
3 de Silva 299,772 Portuguese
4 Bandara 227,388 Sinhalese
5 Kumara 201,695 Sinhalese
6 Dissanayake 172,612 Sinhalese
7 Mohamed 154,874 Arabic, of Sri Lankan Moor
8 Gamage 149,527 Sinhalese
9 Liyanage 143,854 Sinhalese
10 Jayasinghe 142,224 Sinhalese
11 Ranasinghe 139,680 Sinhalese
12 Herath 123,182 Sinhalese
13 Weerasinghe 122,008 Sinhalese
14 Peiris 115,944 Portuguese
15 Rathnayake 102,902 Sinhalese
16 Wickramasinghe 96,968 Sinhalese
17 Wijesinghe 94,816 Sinhalese
18 Hettiarachchi 87,512 Sinhalese
19 Nanayakkara 78,057 Sinhalese
20 Ahamed 74,601 Arabic, of Sri Lankan Moor
21 Rajapaksha 71,144 Sinhalese
22 Mendis 70,623 Portuguese
23 Pathirana 70,297 Sinhalese
24 Ekanayake 69,840 Sinhalese
25 Gunasekara 69,384 Sinhalese
26 Dias 67,623 Portuguese
27 Sampath 67,232 Sinhalese
28 Amarasinghe 64,949 Sinhalese
29 Ratnayake 59,863 Sinhalese
30 Chathuranga 58,754 Sinhalese
31 Senanayake 55,037 Sinhalese
32 Samarasinghe 54,320 Sinhalese
33 Lakmal 53,733 Sinhalese
34 Munasinghe 52,755 Sinhalese
35 Rodrigo 51,777 Portuguese
36 Seneviratne 51,581 Sinhalese
37 Rathnayaka 49,886 Sinhalese
38 Edirisinghe 48,516 Sinhalese
39 Jayawardena 48,386 Sinhalese
40 Fonseka 47,995 Portuguese
41 Sanjeewa 47,147 Sinhalese
42 Gunawardana 46,625 Sinhalese
43 Gunawardena 45,386 Sinhalese
44 Karunaratne 44,930 Sinhalese
45 Jayaweera 43,495 Sinhalese
46 Jayasekara 43,365 Sinhalese
47 Ranaweera 42,387 Sinhalese
48 Jayawardana 40,822 Sinhalese
49 Jayasuriya 40,561 Sinhalese
50 Madusanka 40,300 Sinhalese

Taiwan
See also: Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines

According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Taiwanese Ministry of the Interior's Department of Population in 2016, Taiwan has only 1,503 surnames.[8] The top ten surnames in Taiwan accounted for 52.77% of the general population, and the top 100 accounted for 96.56%.

Rank Character Romanizations %
of total
pop.
2016 Mainland
(2007)		 Mandarin Cantonese Minnan Other
Trad. Simp. Pinyin Wade Jyutping HK Other POJ Other
1 5 陳陈 Chén Ch'en2 Can4 Chan Chun Tân Ting 11.14%
2 19 林 Lín Lin2 Lam4 Lam Lum Lîm Lim, Liem 8.31%
3 7 黃黄 Huáng Huang2 Wong4 Wong Wang
Vang		 Ng Eng, Ung
Wee, Oei
Ooi, Uy
Bong		 6.05%
4 3 張张 Zhāng Chang1 Zoeng1 Cheung Chong5
Cheong4		 Tiu Teo, Teoh
Tio, Thio
Tiew		 Tiong 5.27%
5 2 李 Lǐ Li3 Lei5 Lee
Li		 Le
Lei4		 Lí Lee
Lie
Dee		 5.13%
6 1 王 Wáng Wang2 Wong4 Wong Vong Ông Heng 4.11%
7 9 吳吴 Wú Wu2 Ng4 Ng Ung4, Eng Gô͘
Ngô͘		 Goh, Gouw Woo 4.04%
8 4 劉刘 Liú Liu2 Lau4 Lau Lao4
Lou		 Lâu Low
Lao, Lauw		 3.16%
9 40 蔡 Cài Ts'ai4 Coi3 Choi Choy
Tsoi
Toy		 Chhoà Chua, Choa
Tjoa		 Tsay
Chai		 2.91%
10 6 楊杨 Yáng Yang2 Joeng4 Yeung Yeong
Ieong4		 Iû Eaw
Yeo, Yeoh
Yong
Joe, Yo		 Young 2.66%

Thailand
See also: Thai name

There are no common Thai surnames. Surnames were largely introduced to Thai culture only by the 1913 Surname Act.[9] The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames.[10] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique.[11]

Turkey
Rank[12]NameMeaning
1Yılmazintrepid/dauntless
2Kayarock
3Demiriron
4Şahinfalcon/hawk
5Çeliksteel
6Yıldızstar
7Yıldırımthunderbolt
8Öztürkpure Turk
9Aydıncultured/enlightened
10Özdemirpure iron
11Arslanlion
12Doğanfalcon
13Kılıçsword
14Aslanlion
15Çetinstiff/tough
16Karablack/dark
17Koçram
18Kurtwolf
19Özkanpure blood
20Şimşeklightning

Vietnam
See also: Vietnamese name
Rank[13] Name %
of total
pop.
Vietnamese Chữ Hán
1 Nguyễn 阮 38%
2 Trần 陳 11%
3 Lê 黎 9.5%
4 Phạm 范 7.1%
5 Huỳnh/Hoàng 黃 5.1%
6 Phan 潘 4.5%
7 Vũ/Võ 武 3.9%
8 Đặng 鄧 2.1%
9 Bùi 裴 2%
10 Đỗ 杜 1.4%
11 Hồ 胡 1.3%
12 Ngô 吳 1.3%
13 Dương 楊 1%
14 Lý 李 0.5%

See also

Notes
  1. Most common surname in the world.
  2. 2nd most common surname in the world.
  3. 3rd most common surname in the world.
  4. 5th most common surname in the world.
  5. 4th most common in world (most popular Chinese surname in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Southeast Asia, and places overseas from mainland China)
  6. 7th most common surname in the world.
  7. 9th most common surname in the world.
  8. 10th most common surname in the world.

References
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  2. "公安部发布去年全国姓名报告，"王、李、张"姓排前三" 公安部发布去年全国姓名报告，“王、李、张”姓排前三. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  3. სახელებისა და გვარების სტატისტიკა [Names and surnames statistics] (in Georgian). Georgian Civil Registry Agency. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  4. כהן, לוי וכל השאר: דירוג 500 השמות הנפוצים [Cohen, Levi and the rest: the 500 most common names]. Ynet (in Hebrew). 14 January 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  5. Kaganoff, B. C. A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History. Schocken Books (New York), 1977. Zeichner, Saul. Kolomea Research Group. "Surnames of Interest: Origins and/or Meanings". 3 Nov 2010. Accessed 1 Feb 2012.
  6. Beider, Alexander & al. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames. Avotaynu (New York), 1993. Zeichner, Saul. Kolomea Research Group. "Surnames of Interest: Origins and/or Meanings". 3 Nov 2010. Accessed 1 Feb 2012.
  7. Gotthard Deutsch. Jewish Encyclopedia. "Katz". 1906. Accessed 1 Feb 2012.
  8. 全國姓名統計分析. Ministry of the Interior, R.O.C. (Taiwan). 2016. ISBN 9789860503043.
  9. "What's in a name? The number nine, if you want". Asian Times.
  10. รศ. ดร.นิตยา กาญจนะวรรณ. เรื่องของนามสกุล (๒) (in Thai). Royal Institute of Thailand. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  11. 45,665 Thai names: Examining passlist.96 Archived 26 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, by Doug Cooper
  12. Turkish Directorate-General of Population and Citizenships Archived 26 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Lê Trung Hoa. Họ và Tên người Việt Nam. Social Sciences Publishing House.
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