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This ranking reports the thousand most common surnames in the United Kingdom. You can see the rank position, the surname and the number of places found. Ranking
Forebears knows about 1,227,447 unique surnames in England and there are 44 people per name. Explore the most common surnames in England.
RankSurnameIncidenceFrequency1Smith632,8541:882Jones380,4411:1463Taylor293,3871:1904Brown283,7961:196Nov 17, 2016 · It found 80% of the most common surnames were native to the UK and Ireland, among them: Smith (more than 400,000 bearers according to the 1881 census, compared with 500,000 today) Jones (more...
This ranking reports the thousand most present surnames in the United Kingdom. You can see the rank position, the surname and the number of families that have it. Ranking
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- Smith. Number in Great Britain: 546,960. An English and Scottish occupational name from the Middle English period (1150 – 1470) for someone who works with metal, such as a blacksmith.
- Jones. Number in GB: 422,023. An English and Welsh variant of the Middle English personal name Jon. It only became widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Williams. Number in GB: 294,625. A variant of William, which is a personal name from Middle English adapted from the German name Willihelm, which roughly translates as ‘desire and protection’.
- Taylor. Number in GB: 250,780. The occupational name from Middle English for a tailor.
Nov 17, 2016 · A new study has found the origins of more than 45,000 surnames in the British Isles. The four-year project researching the history and diaspora of family names, by a team of researchers led by the University of the West of England, also explained the meaning of 8,000 surnames for the first time.
Nov 17, 2016 · Smith, Jones, Williams, Brown and Taylor are among the most common names, while names including Farah, Twelvetrees and Li are amongst the 8,000 family names explained for the first time.
