Smith is most popular last name in USA

ORLANDO, Florida (AP):

The most popular last names in the US might be unchanged from the previous decade, but Asian surnames were the fastest-growing at the start of this decade, the US Census Bureau said on Tuesday.

Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, and Jones remained the top five last names in the United States in 2020, as they were in 2010, according to a tally from the last US head count.

Most of the fastest-growing last names from 2010 to 2020 were Asian, according to the Census Bureau.

The top three of those were Zhang, Liu, and Wang.

Rounding out the top 10 most common last names in 2020 were Garcia, Miller, Rodriguez, Davis, and Martinez.

The Census Bureau has tallied counts of the most common last names in each once-a-decade headcount since the 1990 Census.

The 2020 Census was the first since 1990 to provide data on first names, although the Social Security Administration keeps a count of the most popular male and female first names for babies each year.

The Census tally showed that the most popular male first names at the start of this decade were Michael, John, James, David, and Robert, while the most common female first names were Mary, Maria, Jennifer, Elizabeth, and Patricia.

Not too much has changed since 1990. Back then, the most popular male first names were James, John, Robert, Michael, and William. The most popular female first names were Mary, Patricia, Linda, Barbara, and Elizabeth.