Most common surnames in Europe

[Comte Arnau]

This is the italian top 50, in order:


Rossi
Ferrari
Russo
Bianchi
Esposito
Colombo
Romano
Ricci
Gallo
Greco
Conti
Marino
De Luca
Bruno
Costa
Giordano
Mancini
Lombardi
Barbieri
Moretti
Fontana
Rizzo
Santoro
Caruso
Mariani
Martini
Ferrara
Galli
Rinaldi
Leone
Serra
Conte
Villa
Marini
Ferri
Bianco
Monti
De santis
Parisi
Fiore
De Angelis
Longo
Sanna
Sala
Romeo
Martinelli
Grassi
Neri
Marchetti
Vitale

Interesting. These were the 40 most common in Catalonia last year. You've got to go down in the list to number 26 in order to find the first unmistakeably Catalan surname.

00001 GARCIA 170.913 22,50 174.671 22,99
00002 MARTINEZ 119.341 15,71 120.789 15,90
00003 LOPEZ 114.606 15,09 117.826 15,51
00004 SANCHEZ 103.260 13,59 105.461 13,88
00005 RODRIGUEZ 100.237 13,20 101.165 13,32
00006 FERNANDEZ 97.699 12,86 99.538 13,10
00007 PEREZ 92.937 12,23 96.008 12,64
00008 GONZALEZ 91.684 12,07 92.613 12,19
00009 GOMEZ 56.624 7,45 57.412 7,56
00010 RUIZ 50.240 6,61 52.378 6,90
00011 MARTIN 45.985 6,05 45.465 5,99
00012 JIMENEZ 44.793 5,90 43.995 5,79
00013 MORENO 42.665 5,62 42.914 5,65
00014 HERNANDEZ 38.546 5,07 39.045 5,14
00015 MUÑOZ 38.371 5,05 38.806 5,11
00016 DIAZ 35.135 4,63 35.264 4,64
00017 ROMERO 28.923 3,81 28.789 3,79
00018 NAVARRO 28.415 3,74 28.678 3,78
00019 TORRES 26.922 3,54 26.849 3,53
00020 ALVAREZ 26.655 3,51 26.922 3,54
00021 GUTIERREZ 20.233 2,66 20.101 2,65
00022 MOLINA 19.769 2,60 20.046 2,64
00023 SERRANO 18.814 2,48 18.942 2,49
00024 RAMIREZ 18.431 2,43 18.310 2,41
00025 GIL 18.321 2,41 18.229 2,40
00026 VILA 18.132 2,39 17.471 2,30
00027 VIDAL 17.066 2,25 16.823 2,21
00028 RAMOS 17.028 2,24 16.766 2,21
00029 MORALES 16.753 2,21 16.783 2,21
00030 MARIN 16.705 2,20 16.106 2,12
00031 ORTIZ 16.010 2,11 16.443 2,16
00032 SERRA 16.405 2,16 15.464 2,04
00033 MARTI 16.292 2,14 15.472 2,04
00034 GIMENEZ 15.230 2,00 16.358 2,15
00035 ORTEGA 15.665 2,06 15.866 2,09
00036 FERRER 15.745 2,07 15.214 2,00
00037 ALONSO 15.390 2,03 15.517 2,04
00038 SOLER 15.251 2,01 14.961 1,97
00039 DOMINGUEZ 14.907 1,96 15.164 2,00
00040 RUBIO

I heard Nguyen is the most common surname in the world, then Smirnov (Smirnoff?)

I thought it was Chang?

[Hurrem sultana]

Hoxha is common in Albania, not Kosovo.

In kosovo is Gashi, Krasniqi.

Does Hoxha imply son of imam?

[ALSh]

Does Hoxha imply son of imam?

Hoxha means Imam

[Hurrem sultana]

Hoxha means Imam

So does hodza in Bosnian(Hodzic-son of imam)..i am sure Hoxhas got their names in that way too


ps:funny the greatest antireligion guy in Albania was Enver Hodza

[RussiaPrussia]

This is the italian top 50, in order:



Russo

why is the name russo so common in italian and spanish language? It means russian or?

[ALSh]

yeh, most probably. Why hodzic mean son of imam and not just imam ?

[RussiaPrussia]

LOL @ UK

Murphy



Smith

You sure it wasnt mohammed?

[Comte Arnau]

why is the name russo so common in italian and spanish language? It means russian or?

Russo in the Spanish language?

[RussiaPrussia]

Russo in the Spanish language?

but in Portuguese

http://translate.google.de/?hl=de&tab=wT#pt/en/Russo

[Peyrol]

why is the name russo so common in italian and spanish language? It means russian or?

Literally yes, it mean ''russian''.

But i personally think that is a southern italian corruption of the latin ''Ruber-Russus'' (adjective for ''red'')