<P> The most common surnames in the world are, in order, Lee (or Li), Zhang, Wang, Chang, Nguyen, Garcia, Gonzalez, Hernandez, Smith, Smirnov, and Müller . </P> <P> Nationally, regionally, and culturally, most common surnames vary widely . Regional lists of widely common surnames consist of those family names most often occurring within the total population of a region . </P>

List of most common surnames in the world