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u/Glorious_Comrade 3h ago
Every time this comes up, someone has to point out: "Devi" (goddess) is not a common "last name" in India. It's a suffix that many women get added after their first names, they have a separate last name in most cases.
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u/PragmaticSnake 2h ago
As an Australia I swear every second Indian's last name is Singh.
I have never even heard of a Devi.
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u/imsorrywha 1h ago
That's because you have probably seen a lot of punjabis, who are mostly sikh, and thus their last name is singh. My family is from South India where Kumar or ramaswamy is a common surname
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u/TenaciousDumpling 29m ago
That’s because it’s not a surname in the genealogical sense. Devi (“goddess”) is traditionally a suffix attached to a woman’s given name without necessarily identifying her family or lineage (which can have caste connotations). The male equivalent is Kumar (“prince”).
So Devi and Kumar often function as surnames administratively, but they are not typically hereditary family names.
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u/therealunniyarcha 3m ago
I think that's true of singh too. Singh is a suffix in a lot of Punjabi Sikh male names with Kaur being the female equivalent. Many times is followed by a real surname too.
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u/TrueBooker 2h ago
It has several mistakes. Rossi is not patronimic. It meas red in plural. Peeters is patronymic same as Peters. Iceland does not have last names and still uses patronimics.
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u/Faelchu 2h ago
Iceland does have last names. What it doesn't have is surnames. An Icelandic last name is a patronymic, but it is not a surname.
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u/TrueBooker 2h ago
You and I have a different definition of last name or surname. Last name for me means that your children will inherit your last name or your spouse’s last name. Icelanding people inherit their father name+ son/dottir which is the origin of patronimics
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u/TheWeaverofDreams 2h ago
I am somehow very strongly doubting that Kim is that common of a last name in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Unless... there is such a wide variety of native last names that a high concentration of Kims among Korean immigrants could theoretically outnumber any single native last name.
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u/Rusty-exe 1h ago
Uzbeks and Kazakhs have vide range of unique last names, some of them are ancestral, after their clan, tribe or the place they were born, but it’s mainly from after their grandparents, like is someone’s grandfathers name was Khudayar, their last name would be Khudayarov, which is very different from what Koryo Saram Koreans of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan use, which is ancestral, as well as how traditionally they take on husbands last name after marriage (that is not very common amongst Uzbeks/Kazakhs, wife usually doesn’t change her last name after marriage), also, Koryo Saram, or Korean-Uzbeks, or Korean-Kazakhs or whatever you want to call, are not immigrants, they lived in Central Asia for 5 generations
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u/Intelligent-Shame643 2h ago
Alaoui is a cheriffien family name that traces its lineage back mohammed household, and their main branch is literally the Moroccan royal family.
but it’s definitely not the most common last name over here.
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u/Significant_Clock513 2h ago
“Maung” in Myanmar is not actually the last name. In fact, Myanmar doesn’t have Last Name / Family Name. “Maung” is the prefix for younger men. “Ko” is as well for 18~35 age groups men, and “U” (Pronounced - Oo) for older men or used if you want to say respectfully.
The very most common name in Myanmar is “Hein”, a male person with that name is 1 in 10 people.
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u/gvng_33 3h ago
I've hardly ever met anyone named Smith in the US.
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u/024008085 2h ago
Could be representative of where you live?
While there's over 2.3 million of them in the US (plus over 100,000 hyphenated names), and it's the most common surname in 41 states, it's not top 3 in CA, NM, ND, MN, or HI.
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u/KcirderfSdrawkcab 2h ago
I thought Johnson had replaced Smith, or had just always been first in Canada and the US.
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u/TorontoLatino 2h ago
Same in Canada. I'm in Southern Ontario and I've hardly met anyone named Smith.
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u/scrandlle 2h ago
I hear the most common baby name in the UK now is Muhammad, so itd be kinda funny if in like 50 years the most common last name becomes Muhammad too like most of the Middle East so everyone is just Muhammad Muhammad lol
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u/danrennt98 48m ago
I heard there is a saying in Korea where you can't throw a rock without hitting a Kim
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u/redboneskirmish 24m ago
How can it be Ivanov in Belarus and Ivanova in Russia when it’s literally the same last name just male and female version? And they have different color codes? You’d think someone making a map like this would understand such detail. Also Kim in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan? I call bs on so many levels.
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u/Uchqunbekuz 16m ago
Kim in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It might be popular in koreans in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. But Kim is not surname in these countries.
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u/Spinach_Advanced 10m ago
So... Ivanov in Belarus is patronage, but Ivanov in Russia is from a name? Sorry, but there is no way to tell them apart.
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u/kc4stillo 2h ago
if jónsdóttir is the most common icelandic lastname, does that mean jón is the most common firstname?
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u/Klutzy_Sentence_2723 1h ago
I thought it was interesting to see that in conjunction with Ivanova being given as most common in Russia.
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u/Ok-Examination-8736 2h ago
🇮🇳 is diverse as fuck. The place where I live there's nobody with devi last name. Not one.
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u/earth_wanderer1235 3h ago
I think it's a bit misleading because not all countries have surnames.
In Malaysia, the most common surname is Tan because Tan is an ethnic Chinese name, and Chinese forms 22% of the country's population. Most other ethnicities in Malaysia don't have surnames and use patronyms instead.
And then there are some ethnicities which may or may not use surnames depending on their religion.