It is much easier to find a person online if they have an uncommon first name, last name, or full name. If a person has a common last name or full name, it can be for difficult to find information about them through web searches, white pages, public records, and people search engines.
When you have to find someone with a common last name, it helps to have additional personal information to identify them with, such as: city, state, age, profession, names of family members, previous address(es), schools attended, profession, etc.
Here are the top 25 last names that people have in the United States:
| Surname | Approximate Number |
% Frequency |
Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH | 2,501,922 | 1.006 | 1 |
| JOHNSON | 2,014,470 | 0.81 | 2 |
| WILLIAMS | 1,738,413 | 0.699 | 3 |
| JONES | 1,544,427 | 0.621 | 4 |
| BROWN | 1,544,427 | 0.621 | 5 |
| DAVIS | 1,193,760 | 0.48 | 6 |
| MILLER | 1,054,488 | 0.424 | 7 |
| WILSON | 843,093 | 0.339 | 8 |
| MOORE | 775,944 | 0.312 | 9 |
| TAYLOR | 773,457 | 0.311 | 10 |
| ANDERSON | 773,457 | 0.311 | 11 |
| THOMAS | 773,457 | 0.311 | 12 |
| JACKSON | 770,970 | 0.31 | 13 |
| WHITE | 693,873 | 0.279 | 14 |
| HARRIS | 683,925 | 0.275 | 15 |
| MARTIN | 678,951 | 0.273 | 16 |
| THOMPSON | 669,003 | 0.269 | 17 |
| GARCIA | 631,698 | 0.254 | 18 |
| MARTINEZ | 581,958 | 0.234 | 19 |
| ROBINSON | 579,471 | 0.233 | 20 |
| CLARK | 574,497 | 0.231 | 21 |
| RODRIGUEZ | 569,523 | 0.229 | 22 |
| LEWIS | 562,062 | 0.226 | 23 |
| LEE | 547,140 | 0.22 | 24 |
| WALKER | 544,653 | 0.219 | 25 |