What are the top 10 last names in America?
Michael Gray
Updated on April 02, 2026
Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown and Jones were the most common last names, according to a Census Bureau analysis of the 2010 Census. However, the growing Hispanic population has pushed surnames reported by Hispanics up the rankings since 2000. Garcia was the sixth most common name, up from eighth in 2000.
What are popular last names?
Smith is the most common last name in the United States, followed by Johnson, Miller, Jones, Williams, and Anderson, according to genealogy company Ancestry.com.
What is the rarest last name in the US?
10 Rarest Last Names in the United States
- Duckstein.
- Stawarski.
- Ragsdill.
- Panchak.
- Mosheyev.
- Guillebeaux.
- Banasiewicz.
- Atonal.
What’s the rarest last name?
The Rarest Last Names
- Acker (old English origin) meaning “field”.
- Agnello (Italian origin) meaning “lamb”.
- Alinsky (Russian origin), a truly unique surname to find.
- Aphelion (Greek origin) meaning “point of the orbit at the greatest distance from the sun”.
- Bartley (English origin) meaning “clearing in woodland”.
What are the most common last names in the United States?
The most common last names in the United States as of 2013 were Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown and Jones. Other popular last names in the United States were Garcia, Rodriguez, Miller, Martinez and Davis.
What are the 10 most common last names?
The Census Bureau says that the 10 most common last names in the United States are (in order) Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, Brown, Davis, Miller, Wilson, Moore, and Taylor.
What are some interesting last names?
Last name: Best. This most interesting English surname, is recorded in the spellings of Best, Beste, Bester, and Bestar. It is usually job descriptive and derives from the pre 7th century ‘beste’ – meaning a ‘beast’, and hence refers to a cow-herd or cattle dealer.
What is the least popular last name?
According to American Last Names, a few of the least common US last names (with 100 individuals) include Dornink, Hibbets, Yaggy, Zeldes, Neahring, Vanhaverbeke, and Schottmiller among others (American last names ranks)
