What's the most common last name in the world right now?

Question

What place is Patel??? Chang??? Smith???

What about first name??

i think this is interesting...lol

Answer 1

In genealogy we are not that involved in names of themselves. Tracing ancestry is not the same thing as tracing surnames.  I would imagine there is no such record of the world's most common surname.

Answer 2

Rodriguez, Hernandez, Cortez, Gonzalez.

Answer 3

Chang or Zhang with about 100 million people.

And did you mean where these names come from?

Patel-- Indian; second most common surname in India (following Singh)

Smith-- English; most common last name in both the U.S. and the U.K.

Chang (or Zhang)-- China; world's most common surname

Answer 4

Jones

Answer 5

It is Li

Answer 6

oddly, its Lemon