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 |
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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 |
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1 | Məmmədov | Mammadov | "Son of Mammad" |
2 | Əliyev | Aliyev | "Son of Ali" |
3 | Həsənov | Hasanov | "Son of Hasan" |
4 | Hüseynov | Huseynov | "Son of Hussein" |
5 | Quliyev | Guliyev | "Son of Qulu" |
6 | Hacıyev | Hajiev | "Son of Haji" |
7 | Rəsulov | Rasulov | "Son of Rasoul" |
8 | Süleymanov | Suleymanov | "Son of Suleyman" |
9 | Musayev | Musayev | "Son of Musa" |
10 | Abbasov | Abbasov | "Son of Abbas" |
11 | Babayev | Babayev | "Son of Baba" |
12 | Vəliyev | Valiyev | "Son of Vali" |
13 | Orucov | Orujov | "fasting" |
14 | İsmayılov | Ismayilov | "Son of Ismayil" |
15 | Ibrahimov | Ibrahimov | "Son of Ibrahim" |
Bangladesh
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Cambodia
Cambodian names are borrowed from Chinese, Sanskrit, Vietnamese words.
China
According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on April 24, 2007,[2][3][4] the top three surnames in China have a combined population larger than Indonesia,[5] the world's fourth-most-populous country. The top 10 surnames each have a population greater than 20 million; the top 22 have populations of more than 10 million. The top 100 surnames cover 84.77% of China's population.
The press release from the Ministry of Public Security only provided detailed numbers for the top three surnames. Information about the others from 2006 comes from a multi-year study by Yuan Yida of the Chinese Academy of Sciences's Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, which purportedly used a sample size of 296 million spread across 1,110 counties and cities.[6]
Rank | Name | Romanization | Total Number (2007) |
Frequency (2007) |
Estimated Number (2006) | |
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Simp. | Trad. | |||||
1 | 王 | Wáng [lower-alpha 1]/Wong | 92,881,000 | 7.25% | 92,550,000 | |
2 | 李 | Lǐ [lower-alpha 2]/Lee | 92,074,000 | 7.19% | 91,020,000 | |
3 | 张 | 張 | Zhāng [lower-alpha 3]/Cheung | 87,502,000 | 6.83% | 86,690,000 |
4 | 刘 | 劉 | Liú [lower-alpha 4]/Lau | >20,000,000 | — | 65,280,000 |
5 | 陈 | 陳 | Chén /Chan | — | — | 56,640,000 |
6 | 杨 | 楊 | Yáng [lower-alpha 5] /Yeung | — | — | 41,680,000 |
7 | 黄 | 黃 | Huáng/Wong | — | — | 29,410,000 |
8 | 赵 | 趙 | Zhào/Chiu | — | — | 26,180,000 |
9 | 吴 | 吳 | Wú [lower-alpha 6]/Ng | — | — | 25,020,000 |
10 | 周 | Zhōu/Chow | — | — | 24,330,000 | |
11 | 徐 | Xú [lower-alpha 7] /Tsui | >10,000,000 | — | 18,550,000 | |
12 | 孙 | 孫 | Sūn/Suen | — | — | 17,940,000 |
13 | 马 | 馬 | Mǎ/Ma | — | — | 16,890,000 |
14 | 朱 | Zhū/Chu | — | — | 16,460,000 | |
15 | 胡 | Hú/Woo | — | — | 14,970,000 | |
16 | 郭 | Guō/Kwok | — | — | 14,260,000 | |
17 | 何 | Hé/Ho | — | — | 13,340,000 | |
18 | 高 | Gāo/Ko | — | — | 12,900,000 | |
19 | 林 | Lín/Lam | — | — | 12,500,000 | |
20 | 罗 | 羅 | Luó/Law | — | — | 12,400,000 |
Georgia
Rank | Name | Romanization | Total Number[7] (2010) |
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1 | ბერიძე | Beridze | 24,962 |
2 | მამედოვი | Mammadov 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
Indonesia
Most Indonesians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names.
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Japan
Officially, there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames,[12] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are spelled and romanized similarly. The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 cover slightly more than 33%.[13]
This ranking is a result of "The National Same Family Name Investigation" by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.[13] This investigation included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities, as of August 2008.
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Korea
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Nepal
Surnames in Nepal are divided into three origins; Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins. Indo-Aryan surnames dominates over other language origin surnames.
Rank
(2014) |
Name | Character in Devanagari/native script | IAST | Meaning | Incidence(2014) | Frequency
(2014) |
Ethnic Group |
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1 | Shrestha | Śrēṣṭha | Excellent[15] | 2,195,182 | 1:12 | Newar | |
2 | Thapa | थापा | Thāpā | Warrior[16] | 803,119 | 1:33 | Chhetri, Magar |
3 | Adhikari | अधिकारी | Adhikārī | Officer[17] | 569,179 | 1:47 | Bahun, Chhetri |
4 | Maharjan | 564,392 | 1:47 | Newar | |||
5 | Gurung | 500,309 | 1:53 | Gurung | |||
6 | Karki | कार्की | Kārkī | Revenue Officer[18] | 413,836 | 1:64 | Chhetri |
7 | Ghimire | घिमिरे | Residents of Ghamirau village | 354,077 | 1:75 | Bahun, Chhetri | |
8 | Rai | Rāī | King | 347,746 | 1:76 | Kirant Rai | |
9 | Lama | བླ་མ | Lāmā | High Priest[19] | 338,017 | 1:78 | Tamang, Sherpa |
10 | Acharya | आचार्य | Ācārya | Teacher[20] | 333,076 | 1:80 | Bahun |
11 | Shakya | Śākya | One who is capable[21] | 326,127 | 1:81 | Newar | |
12 | Khadka | खड्का | Sword bearer | 322,421 | 1:82 | Chhetri | |
13 | Bhattarai | भट्टराई | Bhaṭṭarāī | 306,980 | 1:86 | Bahun, Chhetri | |
14 | Bhandari | भण्डारी | Bhaṇḍārī | Treasurer[22] | 303,428 | 1:87 | Chhetri, Bahun |
15 | Subedi | सुवेदी | Bahun,Chhetri |
Philippines
The majority of Filipinos use Spanish surnames that were given to them by their Spanish rulers (See Catálogo alfabético de apellidos). Chinese surnames, especially Hokkien surnames, either monosyllabic (e.g. Tan, Lim) or multisyllabic (e.g. Dizon), are also prevalent. Many Filipinos also bear surnames from Philippine languages, usually Tagalog, Kapampangan, Ilocano, and Cebuano.
Sri Lanka
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.
Rank
(2014) |
Name | Total Number
(2014) |
Language of origin and meaning |
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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
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.[23] 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. | |||||||||
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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 | Gô• Ngô• |
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
There are no common Thai surnames. Surnames were largely introduced to Thai culture only by the 1913 Surname Act.[24] The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames.[25] 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.[26]
Turkey
Rank[27] | Name | Meaning |
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1 | Yılmaz | intrepid/dauntless |
2 | Kaya | rock |
3 | Demir | iron |
4 | Şahin | falcon/hawk |
5 | Çelik | steel |
6 | Yıldız | star |
7 | Yıldırım | thunderbolt |
8 | Öztürk | pure Turk |
9 | Aydın | cultured/enlightened |
10 | Özdemir | pure iron |
11 | Arslan | lion |
12 | Doğan | falcon |
13 | Kılıç | sword |
14 | Aslan | lion |
15 | Çetin | stiff/tough |
16 | Kara | black |
17 | Koç | ram |
18 | Kurt | wolf |
19 | Özkan | pure blood |
20 | Şimşek | lightning |
Vietnam
Rank[28] | Name | % of total pop. | |
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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
- Lists of East Asian surnames
- Lists of most common surnames, for other continents
Notes
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