Most common surnames in Europe

[Ryujin]

Interesting. This applies to me as well; but it's combined with something else.

Iceland; you're so cool.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ae/fa/a4/aefaa4dd9f54984e3664500ca020258b.jpg
https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/surnames-translation.jpg

[Bezprym]

"Nowak" has nothing to do with my surname, but there is on a map somewhat similar. :)

What do colours mean?

[Ryujin]

"Nowak" has nothing to do with my surname, but there is on a map somewhat similar. :)

What do colours mean?

I don't know.

[Bezprym]

I don't know.

Ok, after seeing the second photo I figured out.

EDIT: Fuck, I missed the "based on" part.

[Ryujin]

Ok, after seeing the second photo I figured out.

EDIT: Fuck, I missed the "based on" part.

I haven't figured out yet, explain :P

[Ülev]

Frank! no!!! It seems that Poles and Czechs .... are the same!


lol


or that w - v (Nowak - Novak) difference is enough for someone here

[Ryujin]

That's not very secular, Greece. :(

[Mens-Sarda]

Rossi is the stereotypical Italian surname, but in Sardinia is like a foreign surname, there is just an handful of them (all not Sardinians), our onomastic system is totally separated from the Italian one, you can figure out a Sardinian surname among hundreds of Italian surnames without difficulty

the top 5 most common surnames in Sardinia are :

Sanna = fang
Piras = pears
Pinna = nostril, pen, fin
Serra = saw
Melis = honeys

[Bezprym]

Rossi is the stereotypical Italian surname, but in Sardinia is like a foreign surname, there is just an handful of them (all not Sardinians), our onomastic system is totally separated from the Italian one, you can figure out a Sardinian surname among hundreds of Italian surnames without difficulty

Yeah, it would be probably mentioned if the map would be based on regions instead of countries.

[Bezprym]

By the regions (voivodeships) in Poland:

http://img.sadistic.pl/pics/9f23ed88b759.jpg

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Silva - woodland
Santos - saints
Ferreira - blacksmith
Pereira - pear tree
Oliveira - olive tree
Costa - [from the] coast
Carvalho - oak tree
Machado - axe
Ribeiro - from the riverside
Rocha - rock

Some of our most common surnames.

[Ryujin]

By the regions (voivodeships) in Poland:

http://img.sadistic.pl/pics/9f23ed88b759.jpg

Lewandowski rocks

[Tobi]

The only surname in the list related to me is Nagy.

[Rudel]

Interesting. This applies to me as well; but it's combined with something else.

Iceland; you're so cool.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ae/fa/a4/aefaa4dd9f54984e3664500ca020258b.jpg
https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/surnames-translation.jpg

Somewhat erroneous, even if there's no suffix, Martin is fundamental patronimic, ie. it began transmitting as a father's name. Same for all French family names originating in given names (which is a very large part of it, more than people think, considering many given names disappeared and only survive in family names).


By the regions (voivodeships) in Poland:

http://img.sadistic.pl/pics/9f23ed88b759.jpg

Let me guess, modern Western Poland had a wave of freed peasants towards the beginning of the modern era ? (XVIth/XVIIth c.)

[Sandman]

Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia full of Nowak.:p

[brennus dux gallorum]

Are Murphy sea warriors vikings?
Btw why do they include Turkey but not north Africa?

[brennus dux gallorum]

Btw is it my impression or the most common surname in Estonians really has Russian roots?

[Ryujin]

Are Murphy sea warriors vikings?
Btw why do they include Turkey but not north Africa?

Shut up you son of a priest

[Bezprym]

Let me guess, modern Western Poland had a wave of freed peasants towards the beginning of the modern era ? (XVIth/XVIIth c.)

I know nothing about "freed peasants" in Poland.

[Mens-Sarda]

Btw is it my impression or the most common surname in Estonians really has Russian roots?

15% of Estonian polulation is Russian, immigrated there after WWII

[brennus dux gallorum]

Shut up you son of a priest

Seems like I hit a jihadi nerve ;)
Btw I have not the most common surname

[brennus dux gallorum]

15% of Estonian polulation is Russian, immigrated there after WWII

I don't think that the most common surname goes for such a small minority

[Desperado]

Yeay my mother's name is on the map, but in Switzerland lol

[Mens-Sarda]

I don't think that the most common surname goes for such a small minority


perhaps is a very common surname among the Russian minority

look at what happens in Milano, the most common surname among the newborn is "HU", I don't think that the whole city is populated by Chinese people

http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2016-08-21/a-milano-cognome-piu-diffuso-gli-uomini-e-hu-le-donne-rossi-145537.shtml?uuid=ADCciH8&refresh_ce=1

[Mens-Sarda]

Serra is a Spanish surname too.

I think it's quite common in the Romance speaking area, or at least in Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Italy : from Latin "Serra" (saw), same meaning in Sardinian, or also mountain chain, while in Italian means "greenhouse"

http://www.cognomix.it/mappe-dei-cognomi-italiani/SERRA

[Ryujin]

Seems like I hit a jihadi nerve ;)
:confused:

[brennus dux gallorum]

:confused:

Yeah I forgot that turkey is part of the western civilization