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Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
P. Parihar (surname) Categories: Surnames of Asian origin. Culture of South Asia.
This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total),: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were:
Kim. Kim ( Korean : 김; Hanja : 金) is the most common surname in Korea. As of the 2015 South Korean census, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Although the surname is always pronounced the same, dozens of different family clans ( bon-gwan) use it. The clan system in Korea is unique from the ...
Park ( Korean : 박, Korean pronunciation: [pak̚] ), also spelled as Pak or Bak is the third-most common surname in Korea, [1] traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak ( 박 ), meaning "gourd". [2]
Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김).As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population.
The remaining eight of the top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou. [4] Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely xing ( Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) ancestral clan names and shi ( Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) branch lineage names.