Top 10 Most Common Last Names in the United States

A last name is an incredibly huge part of someone's identity. There are millions of last names in the United States, some more common than others. Some people will run into many strangers with their last names, and others will never meet another person (outside their family members) with the same last name as them. It's hard to determine which last names are the most common and which are the most rare because there are so many different last names, and some even different variations of last names, but here are the 10 most common last names in the United States.

10. Taylor
Chances are that you know someone with the last name Taylor considering it is the tenth most popular last name in the United States. It doesn't take that many people with a last name to make it onto the list considering how many different last names there actually are, but there are 773,547 people in the United States with the last name Taylor.

9. Moore
Moore is the ninth most common last name in the entire United States with only a little more people carrying it than the number 10 last name. There are 775,944 people in the United States with the last name Moore. Mo

8. Wilson
The last name Wilson is another one you might hear quite frequently considering it ranks as the eighth most common last name in the entire country. There are 843,093 people in the United States with the last name Wilson.

7. Miller
The seventh most common name in the United States is Miller. As mentioned before, it doesn't take many people with the same last name to put it on the list of most common names, but Miller is a last name that over 1 million people have (1,054,488).

6. Davis
The last name Davis takes the number six spot on the list of most common last names in America. Davis is a name that has been passed on to over 1 million people, 1,193,760 to be exact.

5. and 4. Brown and Jones
The fifth and fourth most common last names in the United States have the exact same number of people that use those last names. Brown is officially ranked as number five and Jones as number four, but they are tied. Brown and Jones are both last names that most people have come across at least once and with good reason. There are 1,544,427 people in the United States with the last name Brown and an equal number with the last name Jones.

3. Williams
With 1,739,413 people in the United States with this last name, Williams ranks as the third most common last name in America.

2. Johnson
The second most common last name in all of the United States is Johnson. Johnson is one of only two last names that is carried by more than 2 million American people. There are 2,014,470 people with the last name Johnson living in the United States.

1. Smith
The most common last name in the United States is hardly a surprise. Smith is the last name of 2,501,922 people living in America.

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