Indeed, U.S. Census data found that 162,253 surnames were reported at least 100 times—and only 11 were reported more than one ...

FOX 56 compiled a list of the five most common and least common last names in Kentucky among the top 1,000 listed. Nationally, the most common last name is Smith, according to Ancestry.com.

There’s also an incredible variety of last names in the U.S. – at least 150,000 different ones ... the three most common surnames overall in the U.S. are Smith, Johnson and Williams.

America’s most common surname by a mile is Smith — 2.5 million ... because the SSA only publishes data for names that recur at least five times in a single year to protect privacy, so even ...

According to the figures, the least common surnames - at a rate of one per 5,369 people with an incidence of 275 or 274 - are Caton, Magee, Miles, Traynor, Akram, Appleby, Goddard, Grogan ...

In 2023, Ancestry.com reviewed phone book listings nationwide to determine the most common surnames in every U.S. state. The map below shows the results of Ancestry.com's investigation ...

So we just smushed our names together on the marriage license, figuring this was a normal thing to do, or at least unobjectionable ... with one another’s surnames, most of that concern is ...