Canada’s Top 20 Surnames Dissected

Darby Sieben — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:53:17 +0000

Ever wonder what are the most common names and Canada and how many people are listed in the White Pages in Canada who match those surnames. I figure there are at least a few of you who would be interested in this information, so here it is.

This list of top 20 common Canadian surnames was pulled from Wikipedia and in the order listed there.

Surname	Canadian Count	Matched Search Page

Li	71,074	Li in Canada
Smith	61,302	Smith in Canada
Lam	41,402	Lam in Canada
Martin	41,474	Martin in Canada
Brown	38,303	Brown in Canada
Roy	35,665	Roy in Canada
Tremblay	39,343	Tremblay in Canada
Lee	28,343	Lee in Canada
Gagnon	30,429	Gagnon in Canada
Wilson	25,984	Wilson in Canada
Clark	25,358	Clark in Canada
Johnson	24,635	Johnson in Canada
White	22,726	White in Canada
Williams	23,713	Williams in Canada
Cote	26,781	Cote in Canada
Taylor	22,372	Taylor in Canada
Campbell	21,874	Campbell in Canada
Anderson	21,229	Anderson in Canada
Chan	20,995	Chan in Canada
Jones	21,384	Jones in Canada

Turns out that Wikipedia is pretty darn close in terms of the order of the top 20 surnames.

On a personal note, if you conduct a search for my last “Sieben in Canada” there are 412 of us listed in the Phonebook.

So the question is – how many people are listed with your last name? Enter your name below and hit “Find”, this will launch a new search browser and look in the right to see how many people match your surname.

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Canada’s Top 20 Surnames Dissected