Top American Last Names, Surnames, or Family Names

Discover a curated list of the most common and popular American surnames, their meanings, and cultural significance. These family names reflect the rich heritage and history of United States.

10 Most Common Last Names in United States

Explore the top 10 last names frequently found in United States. These surnames hold a special place in American culture and often have fascinating origins:

1. Smith
2. Johnson
3. Williams
4. Jones
5. Brown
6. Davis
7. Miller
8. Wilson
9. Moore
10. Taylor

List of Best American Surnames or Family Names

Here’s a broader collection of notable American last names that carry historical and cultural significance. Whether you’re exploring heritage or just curious, these surnames tell stories of professions, regions, and legacies.

1. Abbott
2. Acevedo
3. Acosta
4. Adams
5. Adkins
6. Aguilar
7. Aguirre
8. Albert
9. Alexander
10. Ali
11. Allen
12. Allison
13. Alvarado
14. Alvarez
15. Andersen
16. Anderson
17. Andrade
18. Andrews
19. Anthony
20. Archer
21. Arias
22. Armstrong
23. Arnold
24. Arroyo
25. Ashley
26. Atkins
27. Atkinson
28. Austin
29. Avery
30. Avila
31. Ayala
32. Ayers
33. Bailey
34. Baird
35. Baker
36. Baldwin
37. Ball
38. Ballard
39. Baltimore
40. Banks
41. Barber
42. Barker
43. Barnes
44. Barnett
45. Barr
46. Barrera
47. Barrett
48. Barron
49. Barry
50. Bartlett
51. Barton
52. Bass
53. Bates
54. Bauer
55. Bautista
56. Baxter
57. Bean
58. Beard
59. Beasley
60. Beck
61. Becker
62. Bell
63. Bender
64. Benjamin
65. Bennett
66. Benson
67. Bentley
68. Benton
69. Berg
70. Berger
71. Bernard
72. Berry
73. Best
74. Biffle
75. Bird
76. Bishop
77. Black
78. Blackburn
79. Blackwell
80. Blair
81. Blake
82. Blanchard
83. Blankenship
84. Blevins
85. Bolton
86. Bond
87. Bonner
88. Booker
89. Boone
90. Booth
91. Bowen
92. Bowers
93. Bowman
94. Boyd
95. Boyer
96. Boyle
97. Bradford
98. Bradley
99. Bradshaw
100. Brady
101. Branch
102. Brandt
103. Braun
104. Bray
105. Brennan
106. Brewer
107. Bridges
108. Briggs
109. Bright
110. Brock
111. Brooks
112. Brown
113. Browning
114. Bruce
115. Bryan
116. Bryant
117. Buchanan
118. Buck
119. Buckley
120. Bullock
121. Burch
122. Burgess
123. Burke
124. Burnett
125. Burns
126. Burton
127. Bush
128. Butler
129. Byers
130. Byrd
131. Cabrera
132. Cain
133. Calderon
134. Caldwell
135. Calhoun
136. Callahan
137. Camacho
138. Cameron
139. Campbell
140. Campos
141. Canine
142. Cannon
143. Cantrell
144. Cantu
145. Cardenas
146. Carey
147. Carlson
148. Carney
149. Carpenter
150. Carr
151. Carrillo
152. Carroll
153. Carson
154. Carter
155. Carver
156. Case
157. Casey
158. Castaneda
159. Castillo
160. Castro
161. Cervantes
162. Chambers
163. Chan
164. Chandler
165. Chaney
166. Chang
167. Chapman
168. Charles
169. Chase
170. Chavez
171. Chen
172. Cheng
173. Cherry
174. Chia
175. Choi
176. Christensen
177. Christian
178. Christianson
179. Chung
180. Church
181. Clark
182. Clarke
183. Clay
184. Clayton
185. Clements
186. Cline
187. Cobb
188. Cochran
189. Coffey
190. Cohen
191. Cole
192. Coleman
193. Collier
194. Collins
195. Colon
196. Combs
197. Compton
198. Conley
199. Conner
200. Conrad
201. Contreras
202. Conway
203. Cook
204. Cooke
205. Cooley
206. Cooper
207. Copeland
208. Cordova
209. Cortez
210. Costa
211. Costello
212. Courtland
213. Cowan
214. Cox
215. Craig
216. Crane
217. Crawford
218. Crosby
219. Cross
220. Crowley
221. Crownover
222. Cruz
223. Cummings
224. Cunningham
225. Curry
226. Curtis
227. Dalton
228. Daly
229. Daniel
230. Daniels
231. Daughenbaugh
232. Daugherty
233. Davenport
234. David
235. Davidson
236. Davies
237. Davis
238. Dawson
239. Day
240. Dean
241. Decker
242. Delaney
243. Deleon
244. Delgado
245. Dennis
246. Diaz
247. Dickerson
248. Dickson
249. Dillon
250. Dimick
251. Dixon
252. Dodson
253. Dollar
254. Dominguez
255. Donahue
256. Donaldson
257. Donnelly
258. Donovan
259. Dorsey
260. Dougherty
261. Douglas
262. Downs
263. Doyle
264. Drake
265. Dudley
266. Duffy
267. Duke
268. Duncan
269. Dunlap
270. Dunn
271. Duran
272. Durham
273. Dyer
274. Easterlin
275. Eaton
276. Edwards
277. Elliott
278. Ellis
279. Ellison
280. English
281. Erickson
282. Escobar
283. Espinoza
284. Estes
285. Estrada
286. Evans
287. Everett
288. Ewing
289. Farley
290. Farmer
291. Farrell
292. Faulkner
293. Felch
294. Ferguson
295. Fernandez
296. Ferrell
297. Fields
298. Figueroa
299. Finley
300. Fischer
301. Fisher
302. FitzGerald
303. FitzPatrick
304. Fleming
305. Fletcher
306. Flores
307. Flowers
308. Floyd
309. Flynn
310. Foley
311. Forbes
312. Ford
313. Foster
314. Fowler
315. Fox
316. Francis
317. Franco
318. Frank
319. Franklin
320. Frazier
321. Frederick
322. Freeman
323. French
324. Frey
325. Friedman
326. Fritz
327. Frost
328. Fry
329. Frye
330. Fuentes
331. Fuller
332. Gaines
333. Gallagher
334. Gallegos
335. Galloway
336. Galvan
337. Gamble
338. Garcia
339. Gardner
340. Garner
341. Garrett
342. Garrison
343. Garza
344. Gates
345. Gentry
346. George
347. Gibbs
348. Gibson
349. Gilbert
350. Giles
351. Gill
352. Gillespie
353. Gilmore
354. Glass
355. Glenn
356. Glover
357. Goldberg
358. Golden
359. Goldstein
360. Goleman
361. Gomez
362. Gonzales
363. Gonzalez
364. Good
365. Goodman
366. Goodwin
367. Gordon
368. Gorman
369. Gould
370. Governor
371. Graham
372. Grant
373. Graves
374. Gray
375. Green
376. Greene
377. Greer
378. Gregory
379. Griffin
380. Griffith
381. Grimes
382. Gross
383. Guerra
384. Guerrero
385. Guthrie
386. Gutierrez
387. Guzman
388. Haas
389. Hahn
390. Hale
391. Haley
392. Hall
393. Hamilton
394. Hammond
395. Hampton
396. Hancock
397. Haney
398. Hanna
399. Hansen
400. Hanson
401. Hardin
402. Harding
403. Hardy
404. Harjo
405. Harkleroad
406. Harkrader
407. Harmon
408. Harper
409. Harrell
410. Harrington
411. Harris
412. Harrison
413. Hart
414. Hartman
415. Harvey
416. Hatfield
417. Hawkins
418. Hayden
419. Hayes
420. Haynes
421. Hays
422. Heath
423. Hebert
424. Henderson
425. Hendricks
426. Hendrix
427. Henry
428. Hensley
429. Henson
430. Herman
431. Hernandez
432. Herrera
433. Herring
434. Hess
435. Hester
436. Hickman
437. Hicks
438. Higgins
439. Hill
440. Hines
441. Hinton
442. Hipple
443. Ho
444. Hobbs
445. Hodge
446. Hodges
447. Hoffman
448. Hogan
449. Holden
450. Holder
451. Holland
452. Holloway
453. Holmes
454. Holt
455. Hood
456. Hooper
457. Hoover
458. Hopkins
459. Horn
460. Horne
461. Horton
462. House
463. Houston
464. Howard
465. Howe
466. Howell
467. Huang
468. Hubbard
469. Huber
470. Hudson
471. Huff
472. Huffman
473. Hughes
474. Hull
475. Humphrey
476. Hunt
477. Hunter
478. Hurley
479. Hurst
480. Hutchinson
481. Huynh
482. Ibarra
483. Imler
484. Ingram
485. Irwin
486. Jackson
487. Jacobs
488. Jacobson
489. James
490. Jarvis
491. Jefferson
492. Jenkins
493. Jennings
494. Jensen
495. Jimenez
496. John
497. Johns
498. Johnson
499. Johnston
500. Jones
501. Jordan
502. Joseph
503. Joyce
504. Juarez
505. Kaiser
506. Kane
507. Kaplan
508. Katz
509. Kaufman
510. Keith
511. Keller
512. Kelley
513. Kelly
514. Kemp
515. Kennedy
516. Kent
517. Kerr
518. Key
519. Khan
520. Kim
521. Kinderman
522. King
523. Kirby
524. Kirk
525. Kitelinger
526. Klein
527. Kline
528. Klish
529. Knapp
530. Knight
531. Knox
532. Koch
533. Kramer
534. Krause
535. Krueger
536. Kuhn
537. Lake
538. Lakin
539. Lam
540. Lamb
541. Lambert
542. Lancaster
543. Landry
544. Lane
545. Lang
546. Lara
547. Larsen
548. Larson
549. Lawrence
550. Lawson
551. Le
552. Leach
553. Leblanc
554. Lee
555. Lehman
556. Leon
557. Leonard
558. Lepley
559. Lester
560. Levine
561. Levy
562. Lewis
563. Li
564. Lim
565. Lin
566. Lindsay
567. Lindsey
568. Little
569. Liu
570. Livingston
571. Lloyd
572. Logan
573. Long
574. Lopez
575. Love
576. Lowe
577. Lowery
578. Lozano
579. Lucas
580. Luna
581. Lynch
582. Lynn
583. Lyons
584. MacDonald
585. Macias
586. Mack
587. Madden
588. Maddox
589. Mahoney
590. Maldonado
591. Malich
592. Malone
593. Maloney
594. Mann
595. Manning
596. Marks
597. Marquez
598. Marsh
599. Marshall
600. Martin
601. Martinez
602. Mason
603. Massey
604. Mathews
605. Mathis
606. Matthews
607. Maxwell
608. May
609. Mayer
610. Maynard
611. Mayo
612. Mays
613. McBride
614. McCall
615. McCann
616. McCarthy
617. McCarty
618. McClain
619. McClure
620. McConnell
621. McCormick
622. McCoy
623. McCullough
624. McDaniel
625. McDonald
626. McDowell
627. McFarland
628. McGee
629. McGowan
630. McGrath
631. McGuire
632. McIntosh
633. McIntyre
634. McKay
635. McKee
636. McKenzie
637. McKinney
638. McKnight
639. McLaughlin
640. McLean
641. McMahon
642. McMillan
643. McNeil
644. McPherson
645. Meadows
646. Medina
647. Mejia
648. Melendez
649. Melton
650. Mendez
651. Mendoza
652. Mercado
653. Mercer
654. Merrill
655. Merritt
656. Meyer
657. Meyers
658. Michael
659. Middleton
660. Miles
661. Miller
662. Mills
663. Miranda
664. Mitchell
665. Molina
666. Monroe
667. Montgomery
668. Montoya
669. Moody
670. Moon
671. Mooney
672. Moore
673. Mora
674. Morales
675. Moran
676. Moreno
677. Morgan
678. Morris
679. Morrison
680. Morrow
681. Morse
682. Morton
683. Moses
684. Mosley
685. Moss
686. Moyer
687. Mueller
688. Mullen
689. Mullins
690. Munoz
691. Murphy
692. Murray
693. Myers
694. Nash
695. Navarro
696. Neal
697. Nelson
698. Newman
699. Newton
700. Nguyen
701. Nichols
702. Nicholson
703. Nielsen
704. Nixon
705. Noble
706. Nolan
707. Norman
708. Norris
709. Norton
710. Novak
711. Nunez
712. Obrien
713. Ochoa
714. Oconnor
715. Oliver
716. Olsen
717. Olson
718. Oneal
719. Oneill
720. Orozco
721. Orr
722. Ortega
723. Ortiz
724. Osborne
725. Owen
726. Owens
727. Pace
728. Pacheco
729. Padilla
730. Page
731. Palmer
732. Park
733. Parker
734. Parks
735. Parrish
736. Parsons
737. Patel
738. Patrick
739. Patterson
740. Patton
741. Paul
742. Payne
743. Pearce
744. Pearson
745. Peck
746. Pena
747. Pennington
748. Perez
749. Perkins
750. Perry
751. Pershing
752. Peters
753. Petersen
754. Peterson
755. Petty
756. Pham
757. Phelps
758. Phillips
759. Pierce
760. Pineda
761. Pittman
762. Pitts
763. Pollard
764. Poole
765. Pope
766. Porter
767. Potter
768. Potts
769. Powell
770. Powers
771. Pratt
772. Preston
773. Price
774. Prince
775. Proctor
776. Pruitt
777. Pugh
778. Quinn
779. Ramirez
780. Ramos
781. Ramsey
782. Randall
783. Randolph
784. Rangel
785. Rasmussen
786. Ray
787. Raymond
788. Reed
789. Reese
790. Reeves
791. Reid
792. Reilly
793. Reyes
794. Reynolds
795. Rhodes
796. Rice
797. Rich
798. Richard
799. Richards
800. Richardson
801. Richmond
802. Riddle
803. Ridlehoover
804. Riggs
805. Riley
806. Rios
807. Ritter
808. Rivas
809. Rivera
810. Rivers
811. Roach
812. Robbins
813. Roberson
814. Roberts
815. Robertson
816. Robinson
817. Robles
818. Rocha
819. Rodeheaver
820. Rodenbaugh
821. Rodgers
822. Rodriguez
823. Rogers
824. Rojas
825. Rollins
826. Roman
827. Romero
828. Rosales
829. Rose
830. Ross
831. Roth
832. Rowe
833. Rowland
834. Roy
835. Rubio
836. Ruiz
837. Rush
838. Russell
839. Russo
840. Ryan
841. Salas
842. Salazar
843. Salinas
844. Sampson
845. Sanchez
846. Sanders
847. Sandoval
848. Sanford
849. Santana
850. Santiago
851. Santos
852. Sauerbrey
853. Saunders
854. Savage
855. Sawyer
856. Schaefer
857. Schmidt
858. Schmitt
859. Schneider
860. Schroeder
861. Schultz
862. Schwartz
863. Scott
864. Sellers
865. Serrano
866. Settlemire
867. Sexton
868. Shaffer
869. Shah
870. Shannon
871. Sharp
872. Shaw
873. Shea
874. Shelton
875. Shepard
876. Shepherd
877. Sheppard
878. Sherman
879. Shields
880. Short
881. Silva
882. Simmons
883. Simon
884. Simpson
885. Sims
886. Singh
887. Singleton
888. Skinner
889. Sloan
890. Small
891. Smith
892. Snider
893. Snow
894. Snyder
895. Solis
896. Solomon
897. Sosa
898. Soto
899. Sparks
900. Spears
901. Spence
902. Spencer
903. Stafford
904. Stanley
905. Stanton
906. Stark
907. Steele
908. Stein
909. Stephens
910. Stephenson
911. Stevens
912. Stevenson
913. Stewart
914. Stokes
915. Stone
916. Stout
917. Strickland
918. Strome
919. Strong
920. Stuart
921. Suarez
922. Sullivan
923. Summers
924. Sutton
925. Swanson
926. Sweeney
927. Tanner
928. Tate
929. Taylor
930. Terrell
931. Terry
932. Thobe
933. Thomas
934. Thompson
935. Thornton
936. Todd
937. Torres
938. Townsend
939. Tran
940. Travis
941. Trevino
942. Trujillo
943. Tucker
944. Turner
945. Tyler
946. Underwood
947. Valdez
948. Valencia
949. Valentine
950. Valenzuela
951. Van Every
952. Vance
953. Vargas
954. Vasquez
955. Vaughan
956. Vaughn
957. Vazquez
958. Vega
959. Velasquez
960. Velez
961. Villanueva
962. Villarreal
963. Vincent
964. Vogel
965. Wade
966. Wagner
967. Walker
968. Wall
969. Wallace
970. Waller
971. Walls
972. Walsh
973. Walter
974. Walters
975. Walton
976. Wang
977. Ward
978. Ware
979. Warner
980. Warren
981. Washington
982. Waters
983. Watkins
984. Watson
985. Watts
986. Weaver
987. Webb
988. Weber
989. Webster
990. Weeks
991. Weiss
992. Welch
993. Wells
994. Werner
995. West
996. Wheeler

Most Common Last Names by Country of Origin

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