Frequently Occurring Surnames From Census 2000

The top ten surnames are:

NAME Number of occurrences
Smith – 2,376,206
Johnson – 1,857,160
Williams – 1,534,042
Brown – 1,380,145
Jones – 1,362,755
Miller – 1,127,803
Davis – 1,072,335
Garcia – 858,289
Rodriguez – 804,240
Wilson – 783,051

+ Technical Documentation: Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000 (PDF; 122 KB)
+ File A: Top 1000 Names (xls; 226 KB)
+ File B: Surnames occurring 100 or more times (151,671 records) [Excel and CSV in zip file]

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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