At the moment, listings for the most common names are unavailable for Albania. However the most common names include the following:
Common names denoting profession. Of these, religious professional names have been particularly widespread, including Hoxha, Prifti, Shehu and Dervishi. Bektashi itself is also a common surname. Ironically, Hoxha was the surname of Enver Hoxha, the leader of Communist Albania who banned all religions. There are numerous other professional names which are not as common. Begu also denotes a former ruler and also the surname Gjoni or Gjonaj
Common names which originated as patrinomials. Common names of this sort include Leka or Lekaj, Gjoni or Gjonaj, Murati, Mehmeti, Hysi, Gjika/Gjoka, Marku, Kola/Kolla/Nikolla, Hasani, Kristi/Kristo, Luka, Brahimi, Sinani, Thanasi, Halili, and Abazi. Albanians of Muslim background often bear Christian last names, and those with Christian often bear Muslim last names, although the holders of Bektashi surnames are usually actually of Bektashi background
Common names which originated as place names. May denote former residence, or, if the bearer has a Muslim patrilineal background, that their ancestors ruled the place. Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj, Tosku/Toskaj and Chami.
Some common names are Northern Albanian clan names that double as place names such as Kelmendi and Shkreli. Other notable clan-origin names include Berisha, Krasniqi and Gashi. These sorts of names are very common in far Northern Albania and in Kosovo.
Colors: of which Kuqi and Bardhi are the most commonly used as surnames.
Rank
Surname
Note
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Hoxha
a Muslim priest, Sunni or Bektashi, with its variant Hoxhaj
The forty-one most common surnames in Austria as published in 2006 are shown below beside the approximate percentage of the Austrian population sharing each surname.
Statistics available for Belarusian capital Minsk only:
Rank
Surname in Russian
Surname in Belarusian
Romanization
Population
1
Иванов
Іваноў
Ivanoŭ
7,000
2
Козлов
Казлоў
Kazloŭ
4,700
3
Ковалёв
Кавалёў
Kavalioŭ
4,300
4
Козловский
Казлоўскі
Kazloŭski
3,900
5
Новик
Новік
Novik
3,300
Belgium
is a European nation composed of three main regions: Flemish Region, Walloon Region, and Brussels-Capital Region. The Flemish region has a Dutch-language tradition, while the Walloon region has a French-language tradition. These different linguistic backgrounds are reflected in differing frequencies of surnames, as shown in the table below. On 31 December 1997 there were 316 295 different surnames in Belgium.
The 20 most common surnames in the Faroe Islands as published in 2017 are shown below beside the number of people of the Faroese population sharing each surname.
turku = market, selling place, nowadays only the name of a city
13,802
0.252
21
Salo
backwoods
13,487
0.246
22
Laitinen
laita = side, margin
13,085
0.239
23
Tuominen
tuomi = bird cherry
12,852
0.234
24
Rantanen
ranta = shore, beach
12,834
0.234
25
Karjalainen
Karelian, comes from Karelia
12,830
0.234
26
Jokinen
joki = river
12,514
0.228
27
Mattila
first name Matti, "Matt", "Mathew", -la = place
12,330
0.225
28
Savolainen
Savonian, comes from Savonia
11,592
0.211
29
Lahtinen
lahti = bay
11,470
0.209
30
Ahonen
aho = meadow
11,238
0.205
Most of the names on this list are typical examples of surnames that were adopted when modern surnames were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta "river", koski "rapids", mäki "hill", järvi "lake", saari "island" — often with the suffix -nen added after the model of older, mainly eastern Finnish surnames such as Korhonen and Heikkinen. "Hämäläinen" literally means an inhabitant of Häme. The suffix -nen is an adjective ending.
Most common Swedish">Swedish language">Swedish surnames in Finland
wainwright, worn-down form of 'wagoner', one who makes wagons/wheels
0.27
9
Becker
baker
0.27
10
Hoffmann
'man of the court'
0.26
Greece
The majority of Greek names are patronymic. There are also several names derived from professions, area of residence, nicknames relating to physical or other characteristics and more. The patronymic suffix varies between dialects; thus Giannidis, Giannakos, Giannatos, Giannopoulos, Giannelis, Giannioglou all mean "son of Giannis."
As of 2011, 2,095,788 individuals bear the most common 20 names, and 3,347,493 individuals bearing the top 100 names. 25 most common surnames in Hungary as of January 2019:
While the vast majority of Icelanders do not use regular surnames but rather patronyms or matronyms, around 14% of Icelanders have proper surnames. See also Icelandic names. The 20 most common surnames in the Iceland as published in 2017 are shown below beside the number of people of the Icelandic population sharing each surname.
Ireland
The prevalence of some of these names is the result of more than one distinct Irish language names being represented by the same anglicised version. Names starting with O' and Mac/Mc were originally patronymic. Of the names above, with the exception of Smith and Walsh, all originally began with O' or Mac/Mc but many have lost this prefix over time. Mac/Mc, meaning Son, and Ó, meaning Little, are used by sons born into the family. In the case of a daughter being born into the family she would use Ní/Nic, for example Ó Muireadhaigh becomes Ní Mhuireadhaigh. A woman who marries into the family and takes her husband's name uses Uí/Mic- e.g. Uí Mhuireadhaigh.
Source: Nederlands Repertorium van Familienamen, Meertens-Instituut, 1963–2009. Data can be viewed in the See specifically Names ending in -stra or -ma are usually of Frisian origin. For example, Terpstra, Bijlsma, Halsema. Names ending in -ink or -ing are usually of Low Saxon origin. For example, Hiddink, Meyerink, Mentink.
from lawenda "lavender" or rather "from the East" LEVANT
93,404
8
Zieliński
from zielony "green"; from zioło, ziele "herb"
91,522
9
Szymański
from Szymon, equivalent to Simon or Polish for German Schuhmann "shoemaker"
89,698
10
Woźniak
from woźny, "usher"
89,015
11
Dąbrowski
from dąbrowa "oak grove"
87,304
12
Kozłowski
from kozioł "buck"
76,657
13
Jankowski
from Janek, a diminutive of John
69,280
14
Mazur
Masurian
68,090
15
Kwiatkowski
from kwiatek "flower "
66,917
16
Wojciechowski
from the name Wojciech; from the word "wojak"
66,879
17
Krawczyk
from krawiec "tailor", "tailor's son"
64,543
18
Kaczmarek
from karczmarz "innkeeper"
62,399
19
Piotrowski
from Piotr
61,844
20
Grabowski
from grab "hornbeam" or grabarz 'gravedigger"
59,052
Polish names which end with -ski or -cki have both male and female forms – Kamiński / Kamińska, Wielicki / Wielicka, etc. This needs to be considered when taking a count by, for instance, scanning a telephone book. Historically, -ski, cognate with English -ish and French -esque, was a particle of nobility, like German von.
Portugal
The 50 most frequent surnames in Portugal are listed below. A number of these surnames may be preceded by “of”/"from" or “of the/from the” as in de Sousa, da Costa, d’Oliveira. Those elements are not part of the surname and are not considered in an alphabetical order.
Those Russian surnames that end with -ov/-ev or -in/-yn are originally patronymic or metronymic possessive adjectivals with the meaning "son of" or "daughter/wife of". In older documents such surnames were written with the word syn "son", for example, Ivánov syn "John's son" or Il'yín syn "Elijah's son"; the last word was later dropped. Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of "Smith, Jones, and Brown" is Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov, or "Johns, Peters, and Isidores", although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
Serbia
Slovakia
Note: The most common surnames in Slovakia are a mixture of Indo-European and the Ugric roots reflecting the 900-year-long coexistence of the Indo-European Slovaks and speakers of other Indo-European languages with Ugric Hungarians and the Croatians, under Hungarian assimilation pressure throughout the 19th century. In 1910 Hungarians made up one-third of the population of present-territory of Slovakia. Hungarians are currently an 8% minority in Slovakia due to population exchanges and Slovakization.. While ethnic Hungarians are relatively few in Slovakia, their large presence on the list of most common names reflects the intra-lingual frequency of the frequent names in Hungary.
The top ten surnames cover about 20% of the population, with important geographical differences. The regional distribution of surnames within Spain was homogenized mostly through internal migrations, especially since 1950. Names typical of the old crown of Castile have become the most common all over the country. Most of the common Spanish patronymic surnames were introduced in Spain during the fifth to seventh centuries by the Visigoths.
Source: Turkish General Directorate of Population and Citizenships
Ukraine
Many of the surnames use the same root but different suffixes, or even different roots of the same meaning, depending on the part of Ukraine the person hails from.
