100 famous surnames. The most common Russian surnames
Speaking about the most common surname in our country, many will think that the surname Ivanov is in the lead. However, there will be some bewilderment here, since the most common surname in Russia is absolutely not this one.
Most popular in the world
- Nguyen
- Garcia
- Gonzalez
- Hernandez
- Smirnov
- Miller
So, we see that Lee is the first to be listed in the most popular surnames in the world. On our entire planet, there are over 100,000,000 people who have such. Moreover, most of them live in China, however, there are many Vietnamese with such a surname. We all know very well one of these people - a reformer in Chinese martial arts and actor Bruce Lee.
The next most common surnames in the world are Zhang and Wang. The first of them is recognized as the oldest on Earth - for the first time the name Zhang was mentioned over 4000 years ago. And twenty years ago, she was especially popular, until the name Lee bypassed her. In our time on Earth, there are approximately 100,000,000 people with this surname. Those who bear the surname Wang are somewhat smaller - approximately 93,000,000 people. In ancient times and the Middle Ages, the prefix Wang meant the title of a Chinese, Korean, or Mongol ruler.
Russian popular surnames
On the territory of our homeland, you can often meet a person with the surname Smirnov, which is located in ninth place in the world list of surnames. The surname rating of our compatriots is as follows:
- Smirnov
- Ivanov
- Popov
- Kuznetsov
- Sokolov
- Lebedev
- Novikov
- Kozlov
- Morozov
- Petrov
And now you will definitely be able to easily give anyone an answer to the question of which Russian surname is the most common, and you will not mislead anyone. The statistics are there. Approximately 70,000 Smirnovs live in the capital of our Motherland alone. And where did such a surname come from? Yes, everything is simple - if a quiet and calm child appeared in a large peasant family, then he was given the worldly name Smirny. So gradually from this worldly name, which was always remembered better than church name, the surname Smirnov appeared. Today there are approximately 2,500,000 Smirnovs in our country.
The next most popular surnames in Russia are Ivanov and Popov. The surname Ivanov was originally a patronymic from the name Ivan. The stress when pronouncing the surname used to be placed on the letter "A", but today the stress is placed on the last syllable. Popovs - not all come from families of clergy. Previously, the name Pop (Popko) was common in the world, and this surname appeared from here. Also, such a surname began to be given to employees of priests.
The Kuznetsovs went from the name of the lesson. The blacksmith used to be revered and famous person in the countryside, so the surname Kuznetsov is found everywhere. By the way, the most popular surname in America, Smith, means "blacksmith". There are about 4,000,000 Smiths around the world.
Scientists have been able to full list true Russian surnames by regions of the country: Kuban turned out to be Russian
Unfortunately, the interpretations of family analysis that appeared in the media this summer (after the first publication of the data in a specialized scientific journal), could create a false impression of the goals and results of the enormous work of scientists, the main thing was not that the surname Smirnov turned out to be more common among Russian people than Ivanov, but that for the first time a complete list of truly Russian surnames was compiled by regions of the country. At the same time, scientists had to spend a lot of time collecting Russian surnames on their own.
The Central Election Commission and local election commissions flatly refused to cooperate with scientists, arguing that only if the voter lists are secret can they guarantee the objectivity and honesty of elections to federal and local authorities. The criterion for inclusion in the list of a surname was very lenient: it was included if at least five carriers of this surname lived in the region for three generations.
First, lists were compiled for five conditional regions - Northern, Central, Central-Western, Central-Eastern and Southern. In total, about 15 thousand Russian surnames were accumulated in all regions, most of which were found only in one of the regions and were absent in others. When regional lists were superimposed on each other, scientists identified a total of 257 so-called "all-Russian surnames".
Interestingly, at the final stage of the study, they decided to add the names of residents to the list of the Southern Region. Krasnodar Territory, expecting that the predominance of Ukrainian surnames of the descendants of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, evicted here by Catherine II, will significantly reduce the all-Russian list. But this additional restriction reduced the list of all-Russian surnames by only 7 units - to 250. From which the obvious and not pleasant conclusion followed that the Kuban was inhabited mainly by Russian people. And where did the Ukrainians go and were there at all here - the big question.
An analysis of Russian surnames generally provides food for thought. Even the simplest action - searching it for the names of all the leaders of the country - gave an unexpected result. Only one of them was included in the list of top 250 all-Russian surnames - Mikhail Gorbachev (158th place). The surname Brezhnev takes 3767th place in the general list (found only in the Belgorod region of the Southern region). The surname Khrushchev is in 4248th place (found only in the Northern region, Arkhangelsk region). Chernenko took 4749th place (only the Southern region). Andropov - 8939th place (only the Southern region). Putin took 14250th place (only the Southern region). But Yeltsin did not get into common list. Stalin's surname - Dzhugashvili - for obvious reasons was not considered. But on the other hand, the pseudonym Lenin got into the regional lists under the number 1421, second only to the first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.
250 MOST RUSSIAN SURNAMES
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Scroll popular titles kind is endless, because, how many people, so many opinions. Each person will point to beautiful surnames that he personally likes. They can be short, long, but, according to most, the most popular are the aristocratic designations of family names. Let's see which surnames are more common and respected, and where they came from.
List of the most beautiful Russian surnames in the world
The word "surname" is translated from Latin as "family". This means that this indicates that a person belongs to the genus from which he originated. The emergence of family nicknames was often associated with the profession that the clan was engaged in from generation to generation, or with the name of the area in which the family lived, or the family name indicated character traits, specific appearance, nickname. No wonder there is a saying “not in the eyebrow, but in the eye” - people have always hung labels very accurately.
In Russia, at first there was only a first name and patronymic, and the first surnames appeared only in the 14th century. Naturally, noble people received them: princes, boyars, nobles. Peasants received official family names only at the end of the 19th century, when they canceled serfdom. The first names of dynasties came from the names of places of residence, birth or possessions: Tver, Arkhangelsk, Zvenigorod, Moskvin.
- Sobolev
- Morozov
- Gromov
- Diamonds
- Derzhavin
- Bogatyrev
- Mayorov
- Admirals
- Lyubimov
- Vorontsov
List of the most beautiful surnames for girls:
- Resurrection
- Lebedev
- Alexandrova
- Serebryanskaya
- Korolkova
- Vinogradova
- Talnikova
- Generous
- Zolotareva
- Tsvetaeva
A selection of the most beautiful foreign surnames
Foreigners believe that a beautiful surname helps the family, brings good luck and happiness. But, it’s true, a person with or a family nickname has been teased by peers since childhood, and later he grows up insecure with a whole baggage of complexes. So it turns out that the family name brought bad luck. For people with a beautiful ancestral heritage, things are different. Boys and girls know from childhood that they can do everything in this world, so they walk with their heads held high.
Each country has its own beautiful surnames, which are unusual for the Russian ear. But the origin of family designations is the same all over the world. Someone took the name of their city, and someone took the nickname of the founder of the family, the occupation of the family, belonging to the status. Among foreign surnames also often you can find the names of plants, birds, animals. If a Russian person chooses a foreign name for himself, then, as a rule, he does not delve into its meaning, but makes a choice according to euphony.
For example, modern Spaniards have beautiful surnames - not uncommon. The top guys are:
- Rodriguez
- Fernandez
- Gonzalez
- Perez
- Martinez
- Sanchez
Russian girls often choose generic names of Spanish origin:
- Alvarez
- Torres
- Romero
- Flores
- Castillo
- Garcia
- Pascual
French surnames
All variants of French surnames are endowed with special beauty and charm. This language is very different from other European counterparts. If it is always pronounced correctly, then French is pronounced differently. For example, the popular Le Pen may sound like "Le Pen", "Le Pen", "De Le Pen". First French names families were granted to the highest circle of nobility in the 11th century. And only in the 16th century, by royal decree, was it ordered to give every citizen of France a hereditary nickname.
Since then french surnames from generation to generation are included in the church metrics. The most beautiful family nicknames in France came from proper names, from occupations of the family or from geographical names in which the family was born. French male family names are widespread:
- Robert
- Richard
- Bernard
- Duran
- Lefebvre
Women's generic names are not much different from men's. French history she ordered that there are no differences and other endings, as in Russian, between surnames, therefore beautiful generic names of women also bear a proper name, for example:
- Leroy
- Bonn
- Francois
German
The generic names of Germany arose in the same way as in other countries: first they were received by the nobility, then by the feudal lords and small landowners, and then by the lower strata of the population. The whole process of forming hereditary nicknames took about 8 centuries, and the first surnames appeared on the basis of proper names. Vivid examples are German male generic nicknames:
- Werner
- Hermann
- Jacobi
- Peters
Beautiful family designations in Germany appeared from the names of rivers, mountains and other words associated with nature: Bern, Vogelweid. But the most popular generic names came from the occupations of their ancestors. For example, Muller in translation means "miller", and Schmidt - "blacksmith". Rare ones sound beautiful: Wagner, Zimmermann. Women in Germany, as a rule, leave their mother's surname, and the most beautiful are:
- Lehmann
- Mayer
- Peters
- Fisher
- Weiss
American
Beautiful American generic names compare favorably with other foreign ones - they are very consonant, and the owners wear them with pride. If surnames are not inherited, then any citizen of the United States can change his family name to a more harmonious one. So, the 10 most beautiful surnames of American men:
- Robinson
- Harris
- Evans
- Gilmour
- Florence
- Stone
- Lambert
- Newman
Concerning american women, then, as in the whole world, girls at birth take the generic name of the father, and at marriage - the husband. Even if a girl wants to leave her family name, after marriage she will have a double surname, for example, Maria Goldman, Mrs. Roberts (by her husband). Beautiful generic names for American women:
- Bellows
- Houston
- Taylor
- Davis
- Foster
Video: the most common surnames in the world
The most common surnames in the world seem beautiful, because their carriers are popular people, which means they are happy. For example, there are about one hundred million people on the planet who have the family name Lee. In second place in polarity is the surname Wang (about 93 million people). In third place is family name Garcia, common in South America(about 10 million people).
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The most common surnames and their history of origin:
Kuznetsov Surname from the name of the father by occupation. Since the blacksmith was the most necessary and well-known person in the village, naming according to this sign was everywhere. Therefore, the surname Kuznetsov is one of the most frequent in Russia;
thousand Kuznetsovs lived in Moscow (yielding in number only to the Ivanovs, of which there are thousands. In some areas, the surname Kuznetsov ranked first in frequency (for example, in the volosts of the Kerensky and Chembarsky districts of the Penza province, out of the thousands of Russians covered by the calculations, the Kuznetsovs) Throughout the country as a whole, the distribution of the surname Kuznetsov is somewhat limited by the use of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian dialect word koval in the same meaning "blacksmith", therefore, surnames with this stem spread from the west and south-west. Other peoples also have very frequent surnames with a base meaning "blacksmith", for example, the most common English surname Smith, the German Schmidt. (N) Kovalev is one of the most widespread Russians; surnames, although the words "koval" in Russian literary language No. In the south of Russia and Ukraine, a farrier is called a blacksmith. “If you don’t fart, don’t trash your hands” (that is, don’t get dirty) advises folk wisdom; don't take on a job you don't know. (F) Kovalenya. One of the suffixes forming Belarusian surnames-enya. Kowalski Polish or Ukrainian surname. Kovalikhin and Kuznechikhin, metronymic surnames, are formed from the name of a woman, the wife of a blacksmith. Kovalkov, Kovankov ruchified Ukrainian or Belarusian surnames.
2. Smirnov Smirnov is one of the most common Russian surnames. In Moscow alone there are seventy thousand Smirnovs. Why? In a large peasant family, quiet, quiet children were a great relief for parents. This quality, rare for small children, was imprinted in the secular name Smirnaya, it often became the main name of a person for life (the church name was forgotten by those around him). The Smirnovs came from the Smirnys. (F) The most common Russian surname in a vast strip covering the entire Northern Volga region, most often in the Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo regions and adjacent areas of neighboring regions, to the east this zone extends to the Kirov region. As you move away from this zone, the frequency decreases. In Moscow, in the city, the surname Smirnov ranked fifth in thousands of people) By origin, she is a patronymic from a Russian non-church male name Smirnaya, i.e. "meek, quiet, obedient" Early examples of a patronymic in the Vladimir tithe, "ivan smirnovo son of samarin" "stepan of the meek son of kuchukov" common noun changed the vowel and place of stress, and the surname retained an archaic form (similarly: thick Tolstoy thick) (N) The surnames Smirnin, Smirenkin from the ancient Slavic names Smirena, Smirenka. Smirensky, Smirnitsky seminary surnames from the same root.
3. Ivanov Patronymic from the common form Ivan from the canonical male personal name John. Ivanov is the most common surname of Russians, since the name for several centuries (from to the century remained the most common among Russians: among the peasantry it covered from to all men. In Moscow, thousands of Ivanovs (of which Ivan Ivanovichi) It is characteristic that in this territory the surname Ivanov is usually not very frequent, yielding to many others, but it is widespread everywhere and therefore in major centers and ranks first in the country as a whole. Its relative rarity in certain localities is due to the fact that the name was used in many various forms, patronymics from which became surnames. These forms are much more than a hundred, respectively, and surnames from patronymics formed from these forms are also numerous. (N) The most common male name in Rus', Ivan "Ivanov is like filthy mushrooms" joked the people) gave rise to dozens of derivative forms. I confidently add the surname Ivin to this list, since most of the Ivins are not from the name of the tree, but from Iva, an abbreviated form of the name Ivan. Ivsha is also one of the forms of this name. Itsko, Ishko diminutive forms name Ivan. Itsko is more characteristic of the Belarusian language and Smolensk dialects, Ishko Ukrainian language and South Russian dialects. Ishunya, Ishuta are ancient diminutive forms of the name Ivan. (F) In c. the surname was used with an accent on a. Now it is more often used with the stress on the last syllable. It is characteristic that some bearers of the surname insist on a form with an accent on a, which seems to them more noble than the usual one with an accent on the last syllable.
4. Popov Not all Popovs and Popkovs are descendants of priests. How personal name, Pop (Popko) was quite common among worldly people. Religious parents willingly called their children the names of Drank Popko. Example: landowner Popko (near Senka Pop, peasant Popko Efimov, peasant) thousand people. In Moscow, thousand Popovs. Initially, priests meant: patronymic "son of a priest", patronymic "son of Pop" from the nickname Pop; from the documents of the centuries the peasant Senka Pop, the Don Cossack Mikhailo Pop, etc. worker at the priests worker. As an assumption of the spread of this surname in the north of Russia, one can assume the election of the clergy in these areas: up to the century there were no priests appointed, but the inhabitants themselves elected from among themselves.(N)
5. Sokolov The names of animals and birds are one of the main sources of nicknames and surnames derived from them. "Bird" surnames occupy positions in the first hundred Russian surnames. Sokolov is the most common among the "bird" and is in seventh position in the frequency list of all Russian surnames. (U) Sokolov. Patronymic from the Russian non-church male name Sokol. One of the ten most common Russian surnames. According to B. Unbegaun, in St. Petersburg in the city, she ranked seventh in frequency, and of all the surnames formed from non-canonical names, she was second only to Smirnov. The unusually high frequency of Russian surnames based on the names of birds was noted by a major foreign Slavist V.R. Kiparsky, proving in his articles that this was dictated by the cult of birds among the Russians. My calculations confirmed that Russian surnames are indeed associated with birds more often than with animals or, for example, fish. But this phenomenon cannot be explained by the cult of birds, since the surnames in the majority are more late origin centuries only a minority is older) and we can talk about the origin not of surnames, but of those names from which they are formed. However, in this case, the main reason is not the cult of the bird, but the huge economic and household role of birds in the life of Russians: extensive industrial hunting, poultry farming in every family, grandiose falconry and much more (for more details, see Nikonov V.A. Name and society. M. (N) Sokolikha wife of Sokol. Surnames in -skiy may be of Ukrainian Polish origin. Possibly from the geographical names Sokol, Sokolovo. Similarly, Sokologorsky Sokolinaya Gora. Similarly, Russian Sokoltsov
next in the rankings are:
6. Lebedev
7. Kozlov
8. Novikov
9. Morozov
10. Petrov
11. Volkov
12. Solovyov
13. Vasiliev
14. Zaitsev
15. Pavlov
16. Semenov
17. Golubev
18. Vinogradov
19. Bogdanov
20. Sparrows
21. Fedorov
22. Mikhailov
23. Belyaev
24. Tarasov
25. Belov
26. Mosquitoes
27. Orlov
28. Kiselev
29. Makarov
30. Andreev
31. Kovalev
32. Ilyin
33. Gusev
34. Titov
35. Kuzmin
36. Kudryavtsev
37. Baranov
38. Kulikov
39. Alekseev
40. Stepanov
41. Yakovlev
42. Sorokin
43. Sergeev
44. Romanov
45. Zakharov
46. Borisov
47. Queens
48. Gerasimov
49. Ponomarev
50. Grigoriev
51. Lazarev
52. Medvedev (from Layola: remember the president of the Russian Federation)
53. Ershov
54. Nikitin
55. Sobolev
56. Ryabov
57. Polyakov
58. Flowers
59. Danilov
60. Zhukov
61. Frolov
62. Zhuravlev
63. Nikolaev
64. Krylov
65. Maksimov
66. Sidorov
67. Osipov
68. Belousov
69. Fedotov
70. Dorofeev
71. Egorov
72. Matveev
73. Bobrov
74. Dmitriev
75. Kalinin
76. Anisimov
77. Roosters
78. Antonov
79. Timofeev
80. Nikiforov
81. Veselov
82. Filippov
83. Markov
84. Bolshakov
85. Sukhanov
86. Mironov
87. Shiryaev
88. Alexandrov
89. Konovalov
90. Shestakov
91. Kazakov
92. Efimov
93. Denisov
94. Gromov
95. Fomin
96. Davydov
97. Melnikov
98. Shcherbakov
99. Blinov
100. Kolesnikov
They say "as you call a boat, so it will float." Does this mean that a popular surname can make a person popular too?
Among the most popular surnames there are not only Chinese or English, but also Russian, Spanish, African and even Greek.
Here are the most common surnames in the world:
The most famous surnames
25. Smith
This surname appeared in England and gradually spread to English-speaking countries. Smith is by far the most common surname in the US, UK, Canada, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.
24. Garcia
It's easy to guess that given surname is the most popular in Spain. However, it is also the second most popular in Cuba and third in Mexico. Due to the fact that many Latin Americans come to work in the United States, the surname Garcia is in 8th place in popularity here.
23. Martin
In France, more than 235,000 people have this surname, making it the most popular in the country. It is also worth noting that in many languages there are other versions of this surname that are used as given names rather than surnames, such as names such as Martinus or Martin, which are derived from Latin.
22. Rossi
in italian plural this surname Rosso (Rosso), which means "red". In Italy, this is the most common surname. However, it is also very popular in countries like Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Mexico, Peru, USA and Uruguay.
21. Novak
This surname translates as " new person", "beginner" or "foreigner". This is very popular Slavic name or last name. Most bearers of this surname live in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia, but it is also very popular in Croatia, Serbia and Romania.
The most common surnames
20. Fernandez
This surname is translated as "son of Fernando". It is a very popular surname in Spain (8th place), 4th most popular in Argentina, 10th in Paraguay and 13th in Mexico. In Portugal, this surname is also quite common.
19. Smirnov
Researchers from the Medical Genetic Center Russian Academy medical sciences decided to deeply study the issue of the most popular surname. They divided Russian Federation into hypothetical regions, each of which has been studied in detail.
As a result of the study, it turned out that the most popular surname in Russia is Smirnov. It will be interesting to note that one of the versions of the origin of the surname says that the word "Smirnoy" served as the basis of the surname, which denoted a character trait ("meek" = "obedient").
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Kuznetsov
18. Silva
More than 10% of all Brazilians have this surname, making it the most common in this country. This surname comes from the Latin word "silva", which means "forest" or "woodland". It is also popular in Portugal and the former Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa and Asia (including India and Sri Lanka).
17. Mohammed
This name translates as "Praised", "Worthy of Praise" and is the most popular name and surname in the Islamic world. There are several versions of this name, including Mohammed (Mohammed), Mohammed and Muhammad.
16. Kumar
The roots of this surname can be found at the beginning of the development of Hinduism. This is not only the most popular name in India, but also a surname and even a patronymic. Kumar is also the 8th most popular surname in the world.
15. Gonzales
It is a very popular Spanish given name and the second most common surname. In addition, it is very common in Latin America, including countries such as Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Venezuela.
What are the most common surnames
14. Muller
The German word "muller" (also spelled "mueller" or "miller") translates as "miller". This is the most popular surname in Germany, Switzerland and parts of France. In Austria, she ranks 5th in the list of the most common surnames in the country.
13. Cohen
Initially, the word "cohen" in Hebrew was called a priest. It is also very popular Jewish surname, and can often be heard in countries where there are large Jewish communities. There are several variants of this surname: Coen, Cohn, Kahn, Kohn and others.
12. Nguyen
Without any competition, this surname is the most popular in Vietnam, where about 40% of the inhabitants are its bearers. But this surname is also popular outside the country, thanks to the many immigrants from Vietnam.
11. Khan
This name and title Mongolian origin. Initially, Khan was the title of the leader of the tribe, and in the states that appeared after the collapse Mongol Empire it was the title of a sovereign. IN Ottoman Empire Sultan was called Khan. Today it is the most popular surname in the countries of central and South Asia. It is one of the most common surnames in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Oman and Turkey.
10 Rodriguez
A very popular surname in Spain, the USA and Latin America. Rodriguez means "descendant of Rodrigues" and is the most common surname in Colombia, the second most common in Argentina, and the ninth most common in Brazil, where it is often spelled "Rodrigues".
Top Surnames
9. Wang
This is the most popular surname in China. In total, about 100,000 inhabitants of the country are its owners. 2nd most popular Chinese surnames goes Lee (Lee), and on the third Zhang (Zhang).
8 Anderson
This surname comes from a word indicating origin, meaning "descendant of Anders (Anders) / Andrew (Andrew)". The surname appeared in parallel in the British Isles and in the countries northern Europe. Anderson is a popular surname in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (where it is spelled "Andersen").
7. Yilmaz
This surname is translated as "brave" or "invincible." It is very popular in Turkey. In Turkey, until 1934, there were no surnames, and after the adoption of the "Law on Surnames", the most popular surnames became Kaya (Kaya), Demir (Demir) and Sahin (Sahin), but the surname Yilmaz became the most popular and by a wide margin.
6. Traore
This surname has roots in the Manding languages. Traore is a very popular surname in several countries. West Africa including Mali, Senegal and Guinea.
The most common surname in Russia
5. Ivanov
It is worth noting that many attempts have been made to find out which surname is still the most popular in Russia.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Oxford University philologist Ottokar Genrikhovich Unbegaun, who was a native of Russia, was one of the first to try to figure out the most popular surname. He began in St. Petersburg, where, in his opinion, the most common surname for 1910 was Ivanov, which comes from one of the most popular Russian names - Ivan.
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Kuznetsov
Vasiliev.
The second attempt took place in modern Russia. Anatoly Fedorovich Zhuravlev, trying to find out which surname is the most popular in his homeland, came to the same result - the surname Ivanov.
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Mikhailov.
Vasiliev
4. Ahmed
Very popular Arabic name Ahmed also boasts a large number of various options his spellings are Ahmad, Ahmet, Ahmat. The world's most popular options are Ahmet and Ahmad. Many people named Ahmed can be found in Sudan, Egypt, Syria, Bangladesh and other countries.
The most common surnames in the world
3. Lopez
This surname comes from the Latin word "lupus", which means "wolf". Lopez is popular Spanish name. In Portugal, it sounds Lopes (Lopes), in Italy - Lupo (Lupo), in France - Loup (Loup), in Romania - Lupu (Lupu) or Lupescu (Lupescu). In Latin America, the surname Lopez is also very popular.
2. Kim
Sometimes this surname is written as Gim. It is very common on the Korean Peninsula (both in the South and in North Korea). About 22% of the inhabitants of the peninsula bear the surname Kim, which can be translated as "metal", "iron" or "gold".
1. Papadopulos
The meaning of this surname is "son of a priest". Papadopoulos is the most popular surname in Greece and Cyprus, as well as in countries with a Greek diaspora such as the US, UK, Australia and the Scandinavian countries.
What is the most common Russian surname
If we take into account all three studies, we can say that Ivanov and Smirnov are the most common surnames in Russia. However, it is worth noting that one of the most popular surnames today is also the surname Kuznetsov (Kuznetsova). And if we consider that in English the blacksmith is smith, then there are several million carriers of this surname on Earth.
