List of most common surnames in Asia

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This is a list of the most common surnames in Asia, in alphabetical order of the country.

Armenia[]

Rank	Name	Romanization	Meaning
1	Հովհաննիսյան	Hovhannisyan	Son of Hovhannes (John)
2	Հարությունյան	Harutyunyan	Son of Harutyun ("resurrection")
3	Սարգսյան	Sargsyan	Son of Sargis
4	Խաչատրյան	Khachatryan	Son of Khachatur ("given by cross")
5	Գրիգորյան	Grigoryan	Son of Grigor (Gregory)

Azerbaijan[]

Rank[1]	Name	Romanization	Meaning
1	Məmmədov	Mammadov	"Son of Mammad"
2	Əliyev	Aliyev	"Son of Ali"
3	Hüseynov	Huseynov	"Son of Hüseyn"
4	Həsənov	Hasanov	"Son of Hasan"
5	Quliyev	Guliyev	"Son of Qulu"
6	İsmayılov	Ismayilov	"Son of Ismayil"
7	Əhmədov	Ahmadov	"Son of Ahmad"
8	Abdullayev	Abdullayev	"Son of Abdulla"
9	Abbasov	Abbasov	"Son of Abbas"
10	Cəfərov	Jafarov	"Son of Jafar"

Bangladesh[]

Rank[2]	Name	Romanization	Meaning
1	আক্তার	Akter	Star
2	ইসলাম	Islam	Submission
3	খাতুন	Khatun	Noblewoman
4	হোসেন	Hossain	Handsome
5	রহমান	Rahman	Gracious

Cambodia[]

Khmer	IPA	Romanization	Origin
កូយ		Kuy
កឹម		Kem
កែប		Kep
កែវ	kaew	Keo	(2nd most popular surname in Cambodia) meaning glass or jewel or crystal
ខាត់	kʰat	Khat	Chinese
ខាយ	kʰaːy	Khay	凱/凯 (triumphant, victorious)
ខៀវ	kʰiəw	Khiev	喬/乔 (Chinese "qiao", Vietnamese "kiều")
ខ្លូត	kʰlout	Khlot	generic name for melon-like fruit
គឹម	kɨm	Kim	金 (Korean "Kim" / Mandarin Chinese "Jin", meaning gold)
គួច		Kouch
កាំង		Kaing
ឃាង		Kheang
ឃិន		Khin	Chinese 欽/钦 (respect, admiration)
ឃីម		Khim
ចន្ទ		Chan/Chhan/Jan	Sanskrit word canda (चन्द) meaning moon
ចាន់		Chan
ចាប		Chap	Bird
ចេង		Cheng
ចេន	ceːn	Chen/Jen	陳/陳 (Given only to Cambodians of Chinese descent)
ឆន	cʰɑːn	Chhorn	終/终; whole, complete, entire.
ឆាយ
ជា	ciə	Chea	谢 (Chinese Xie)
ជាម	ciəm	Cheam	bowl.[3] From Persian جام (jam) meaning "cup". Or could be from Chinese 詹 (zhan) meaning "talk too much."
ជិន	cin	Chin/Jin
ជឹម	cɨm	Chim/Choem
ជ័យ	cɨj	Chey/Jey/Jay	Most popular surname in Cambodia, the Cambodian word "chey" meaning "victory" or "victorious", derived from Sanskrit Jaya (जय)
ឈិត	cʰit	Chhet/Chhit	奇 (odd, unusual)
ឈិន			陳/陈 (old)
ឈឹម	cʰəm	Chhim/Chhem	欽 (respect, admiration)
ញឹក	ɲɨk	Nhek	abbreviation of 涅槃 (Nirvana)
ដួង	duəŋ	Duong	beloved, dear, darling
ឌិត	dɨt	Dith	ḍita from Sanskrit Paṇḍita (पण्डित) meaning wise man or scholar; or Chinese 狄 ("Di")
ឌិន	dɨn	Din	from ḍina (डिन) in Pali meaning flight
ឌី		Dy
ឌុល	dul	Dul	from ḍula (डुल) in Pali meaning earring or tremble
ឌួង	duəŋ	Duong	Chinese 東/东 (east)
តក់		Tok	Droplets of water
តាង	taːŋ	Tang	唐
តាត	taːt	Tat	達/达 (attain)
តូច	touc ~ tuːc	Toch/Touch	Small or Tiny
តាំង	taŋ	Taing	Possibly from Chinese 凳 meaning "bench" or "chair".[3]
ថន		Than
ទាវ		Teav
ទី	tiː	Ty
ទុំ		Tum
ទ្រី		Try
ទេព	teːp	Tep	from Deva (देव), Sanskrit for god or divine
ធី	tʰiː	Thy
នី		Ny
ប្រាក់		Prak	Khmer for silver
ប៉ាង	paːŋ	Pang	龐/庞 (vast)
ប៉ុក	pok	Pok	波 (Bo)
ប៊ុន	bun	Bun	本 (the four winds, from Vietnamese bốn)
ប៉ែន	paen	Pen/Ben	賓/宾 (guest/visitor)
ផាន	pʰaːn	Phan	潘 (to overflow; be abundant)
ពិជ		Pech
ពេជ្រ		Pich	means Diamonds in Cambodia
ភី	pʰiː	Phy	guardian, one of great importance
មា	maː	Ma	ม้า (Thai version of Chinese "Ma")
មាន	miən	Mean	rich or wealthy; or 緬/缅 (nostalgic, distant)
មាស	miəh	Meas	Khmer for gold
មួយ	muəy	Muy/Muoy	the number 1
មូល	muːl	Mul	round
មេង	meːŋ	Meng	孟 (Chinese "Meng")
ម៉ៅ	maʋ	Mao	毛 (Chinese "Mao"), locals argue that it came from a spoken form of the Khmer word black or kmav (ខ្មៅ). However this word is reconstructed from Proto-Austro-Asiatic as *kVm and thus is unlikely to be so.
យស់	yuəh	Yos/Yous
យុន	yun	Yun	尹 (Chinese "Yun")
យូ	yuː	Yu	尤 (Chinese "Yu")
រស់	rʊəh	Ros/Rous	to live
រួយ		Rouy
លិម	lim	Lim	林 (Chinese "Lin", meaning forest)
លី		Ly
លីវ		Liv
លឹម		Lim
វ៉ាង	ʋaaŋ	Vang
វង្ស	ʋʊəŋ	Vong	Circle, line of descent. Derived from the Sanskrit word vansha (वंश) meaning lineage.
ស	sɑː	Sor/Sar	White
សង	sɑːŋ	Sang	Payback
សម	sɑːm	Sam
សរ	sɑː	Sor/Sar
សាង	saːŋ	Sang	常 (Variation of Chinese "Chang")
សាត	saːt	Sat
សាន	saːn	San
សាយ	saːj	Say
សិន	sɨn	Sin	森; (Forest)
សឺន	səɨn	Son
សុខ	sok	Sok	from Sanskrit sukha (सुख) meaning joy or happiness
សុង	soŋ	Song
សុន	son	Son
ស៊ុយ	suy	Suy	隋 (Sui Dynasty)
សូ	soː	So	蘇/苏 (Chinese "Sū")
ស៊ូ	suː	Su	蘇/苏 (Chinese "Sū")
សួន	suən	Soun	Garden
សឿង		Seoung
សៀង	sieŋ	Sieng/Seang	Soy or Shang (From Shang Hai City)
សេង	seiŋ	Seng	常 (Variation of Chinese "Chang"). Or from Chinese 乘 (seng) meaning "to multiply" [3]
សេន	sein	Sen	Cent
សោម	saom	Som	from Sanskrit soma (सोम) meaning moon or sky
សៅ		Sao
ហាក៉		Hak
ហុង	hoŋ	Hong	from Chinese 洪 "Hong" meaning water or flood listed 184th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames
ហ៊ុន	hun	Hun	money investment, share (of stocks). Thai or Chinese etymology.[3] Possibly related to 份 ("Hun" in Hokkien) meaning "share, portion."
ហូ	hou	Ho/Hu	胡 (Chinese "Hu")
ឡាយ		Lay	來/来 (Chinese "Lai", meaning Come)
ឡុង	loŋ	Long	龍/龙 (Chinese "Long", meaning dragon)
អាង	aːŋ	Ang/Aang	吳/吴 (Cantonese variation of surname "Wu")
អិម	ʔim	Im/Yim	任 (Hakka Chinese 'jim5')
អុង	ʔoŋ	Ong	王 (Chinese "Wang" (pronounced Ong in Hokkien dialect), meaning king)
អ៊ុច	ʔuc	Uch/Ouch	To Light
អ៊ុយ	ʔuj	Uy
អៀម	ʔiəm	Eam/Iem/Iam
អៀវ	ʔieʋ	Iv/Eav/Eaw	楊 (Chinese "Yang")
អ៊ុំ	ʔum	Um	Aunt (A parent's older brother or sister)
ឯក	ʔaek	Ek/Aek	Self, Single; from Sanskrit eka (एक)
ឱក	ʔaok	Ok/Aok	玉 (Jade)
ឱម	ʔaom	Om	嚴/严 (Chinese "Yan")

China[]

According to a report released by the Chinese Ministry for Public Security in January 2019, there are 6,150 different surnames in China with the top 100 surnames used by 85% of the population in 2018.^[4]

Rank	Name		Romanization	Total Number in China (2018)[4]
	Simp.	Trad.
1	王		Wáng [a]/Wong	101,500,000
2	李		Lǐ [b]/Lee	100,900,000
3	张	張	Zhāng [c]/Cheung	95,400,000
4	刘	劉	Liú [d]/Lau	72,100,000
5	陈	陳	Chén [e]/ Chan	63,000,000
6	杨	楊	Yáng [f] /Yeung	46,200,000
7	黄	黃	Huáng/Wong	33,700,000
8	赵	趙	Zhào/Chiu	28,600,000
9	吴	吳	Wú [g]/Ng	27,800,000
10	周		Zhōu/Chow	26,800,000
11	徐		Xú [h] /Tsui	20,200,000
12	孙	孫	Sūn/Suen	19,400,000
13	马	馬	Mǎ/Ma	19,100,000
14	朱		Zhū/Chu	18,100,000
15	胡		Hú/Woo	16,500,000
16	郭		Guō/Kwok	15,800,000
17	何		Hé/Ho	14,800,000
18	林		Lín/Lam	14,200,000
19	高		Gāo/Ko	14,100,000
20	罗	羅	Luó/Law	14,000,000

Georgia[]

Rank	Name	Romanization	Total Number[5] (2010)
1	ბერიძე	Beridze	24,962
2	მამედოვი	Mamedov Mamedovi	23,675
3	კაპანაძე	Kapanadze	17,202
4	გელაშვილი	Gelashvili	16,350
5	ალიევი	Aliyev Alievi	15,742
6	მაისურაძე	Maisuradze	14,824
7	გიორგაძე	Giorgadze	12,954
8	ლომიძე	Lomidze	11,796
9	წიკლაური	Tsiklauri	11,571
10	ბოლქვაძე	Bolkvadze	10,916
11	კვარაცხელია	Kvaratskhelia	10,447
12	ნოზაძე	Nozadze	10,183
13	ხუციშვილი	Khutsishvili	10,075
14	შენგელია	Shengelia	9,928
15	აბულაძე	Abuladze	9,663
16	მიქელაძე	Mikeladze	9,220
17	ტაბატაძე		8,654
18	მჭედლიშ���ილი	Mchedlishvili	8,446
19	ბაირამოვი	Bairamov Bairamovi	8,373
20	გოგოლაძე	Gogoladze	8,362

India[]

Indonesia[]

Most Indonesians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names.

Israel[]

Japan[]

The most common Japanese surnames are Satō (佐藤), Suzuki (鈴木), Takahashi (高橋), Tanaka (田中) and Watanabe (渡辺).

Korea[]

Nepal[]

Surnames in Nepal are divided into three origins; Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins. Indo-Aryan surnames dominate over other language origin surnames.

Philippines[]

The Catálogo alfabético de apellidos (English: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames; Tagalog: Alpabetikong Katalogo ng mga apelyedo) is a book of surnames in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies published in the mid-19th century. This was in response to a Spanish colonial decree establishing the distribution of Spanish family names and local surnames among colonial subjects who did not have a prior surname. It is also the reason why Filipinos share the same surnames of Spanish people.^{[citation needed]}

The book was created after Spanish Governor-General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa issued a decree on 21 November 1849, to address the lack of a standard naming convention.[4] Newly-Christianised Filipinos often chose the now-ubiquitous surnames of de los Santos, de la Cruz, del Rosario, and Bautista for religious reasons; others preferred names of well-known local rulers such as Lacandola. To complicate matters further, discrepancies like family members holding different surnames would hinder some of the colonial government's activities such as taking a census and tax collection.

1. Santos
2. Reyes
3. Cruz
4. Bautista
5. Del Rosario
6. Gonzales
7. Ramos
8. Aquino
9. Garcia
10. De la Cruz
11. Lopez
12. Fernández
13. Mendoza
14. Morales
15. Marquez
16. Hernandez
17. Navarro
18. Sanchez
19. De los Reyes
20. De los Santos

Russia[]

Sri Lanka[]

Many low country Sinhalese have Portuguese surnames as a result of Portuguese colonial rule in that areas during the 16th and 17th centuries. Of Sinhalese own surnames, they have Sanskrit origination. Tamils and Sri Lankan Moors have distinctive surnames for their own ethnicity.

Many Sinhalese surnames end with Singhe (Sinhalese: සිංහයා meaning lion), such as Jayasinghe, Ranasinghe, Samarasinghe, etc.

Rank (2014)	Name	Total Number (2014)	Language of origin and meaning
1	Perera	862,080	Portuguese
2	Fernando	520,965	Portuguese
3	de Silva	299,772	Portuguese
4	Bandara	227,388	Sinhalese
5	Kumara	201,695	Sinhalese
6	Dissanayake	172,612	Sinhalese
7	Mohamed	154,874	Arabic, of Sri Lankan Moor
8	Gamage	149,527	Sinhalese
9	Liyanage	143,854	Sinhalese
10	Jayasinghe	142,224	Sinhalese
11	Ranasinghe	139,680	Sinhalese
12	Herath	123,182	Sinhalese
13	Weerasinghe	122,008	Sinhalese
14	Peiris	115,944	Portuguese
15	Rathnayake	102,902	Sinhalese
16	Wickramasinghe	96,968	Sinhalese
17	Wijesinghe	94,816	Sinhalese
18	Hettiarachchi	87,512	Sinhalese
19	Nanayakkara	78,057	Sinhalese
20	Ahamed	74,601	Arabic, of Sri Lankan Moor
21	Rajapaksha	71,144	Sinhalese
22	Mendis	70,623	Portuguese
23	Pathirana	70,297	Sinhalese
24	Ekanayake	69,840	Sinhalese
25	Gunasekara	69,384	Sinhalese
26	Dias	67,623	Portuguese
27	Sampath	67,232	Sinhalese
28	Amarasinghe	64,949	Sinhalese
29	Ratnayake	59,863	Sinhalese
30	Chathuranga	58,754	Sinhalese
31	Senanayake	55,037	Sinhalese
32	Samarasinghe	54,320	Sinhalese
33	Lakmal	53,733	Sinhalese
34	Munasinghe	52,755	Sinhalese
35	Rodrigo	51,777	Portuguese
36	Seneviratne	51,581	Sinhalese
37	Rathnayaka	49,886	Sinhalese
38	Edirisinghe	48,516	Sinhalese
39	Jayawardena	48,386	Sinhalese
40	Fonseka	47,995	Portuguese
41	Sanjeewa	47,147	Sinhalese
42	Gunawardana	46,625	Sinhalese
43	Gunawardena	45,386	Sinhalese
44	Karunaratne	44,930	Sinhalese
45	Jayaweera	43,495	Sinhalese
46	Jayasekara	43,365	Sinhalese
47	Ranaweera	42,387	Sinhalese
48	Jayawardana	40,822	Sinhalese
49	Jayasuriya	40,561	Sinhalese
50	Madusanka	40,300	Sinhalese

Taiwan[]

According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Taiwanese Ministry of the Interior's Department of Population in 2016, Taiwan has only 1,503 surnames.^[10] The top ten surnames in Taiwan accounted for 52.77% of the general population, and the top 100 accounted for 96.56%.

Rank		Character		Romanizations								% of total pop.
2016	Mainland (2007)			Mandarin		Cantonese			Minnan		Other
		Trad.	Simp.	Pinyin	Wade	Jyutping	HK	Other	POJ	Other
1	5	陳	陈	Chén	Ch'en2	Can4	Chan	Chun	Tân	Ting		11.14%
2	19	林		Lín	Lin2	Lam4	Lam	Lum	Lîm	Lim, Liem		8.31%
3	7	黃	黄	Huáng	Huang2	Wong4	Wong	Wang Vang	Ng	Eng, Ung Wee, Oei Ooi, Uy Bong		6.05%
4	3	張	张	Zhāng	Chang1	Zoeng1	Cheung	Chong5 Cheong4	Tiu	Teo, Teoh Tio, Thio Tiew	Tiong	5.27%
5	2	李		Lǐ	Li3	Lei5	Lee Li	Le Lei4	Lí	Lee Lie Dee		5.13%
6	1	王		Wáng	Wang2	Wong4	Wong	Vong	Ông	Heng		4.11%
7	9	吳	吴	Wú	Wu2	Ng4	Ng	Ung4, Eng	Gô͘ Ngô͘	Goh, Gouw	Woo	4.04%
8	4	劉	刘	Liú	Liu2	Lau4	Lau	Lao4 Lou	Lâu	Low Lao, Lauw		3.16%
9	40	蔡		Cài	Ts'ai4	Coi3	Choi	Choy Tsoi Toy	Chhoà	Chua, Choa Tjoa	Tsay Chai	2.91%
10	6	楊	杨	Yáng	Yang2	Joeng4	Yeung	Yeong Ieong4	Iû	Eaw Yeo, Yeoh Yong Joe, Yo	Young	2.66%

Thailand[]

There are no common Thai surnames. Surnames were largely introduced to Thai culture only by the 1913 Surname Act.^[11] The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames.^[12] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique.^[13]

Turkey[]

Rank[14]	Name	Meaning
1	Yılmaz	intrepid/dauntless
2	Kaya	rock
3	Demir	iron
4	Şahin	falcon/hawk
5	Çelik	steel
6	Yıldız	star
7	Yıldırım	thunderbolt
8	Öztürk	pure Turk
9	Aydın	cultured/enlightened
10	Özdemir	pure iron
11	Arslan	lion
12	Doğan	falcon
13	Kılıç	sword
14	Aslan	lion
15	Çetin	stiff/tough
16	Kara	black/dark
17	Koç	ram
18	Kurt	wolf
19	Özkan	pure blood
20	Şimşek	lightning

Vietnam[]

Rank[15]	Name		% of total pop.
	Vietnamese	Chữ Hán
1	Nguyễn	阮	38%
2	Trần	陳	11%
3	Lê	黎	9.5%
4	Phạm	范	7.1%
5	Huỳnh/Hoàng	黃	5.1%
6	Phan	潘	4.5%
7	Vũ/Võ	武	3.9%
8	Đặng	鄧	2.1%
9	Bùi	裴	2%
10	Đỗ	杜	1.4%
11	Hồ	胡	1.3%
12	Ngô	吳	1.3%
13	Dương	楊	1%
14	Lý	李	0.5%

See also[]

• Lists of East Asian surnames
• Lists of most common surnames, for other continents

Notes[]

References[]