Can you name the European countries by their most common surnames? by Markovic

Surnames	Country
Müller, Schmidt, Schneider
Jensen, Nielsen, Hansen
Ivanov, Georgiev, Dimitrov
Rossi, Russo, Ferrari
Kazlauskas, Petrauskas, Jankauskas
Murphy, Kelly, O'Sullivan
Horvat, Kovacevic, Babic
Öztürk, Yilmaz, Kaya
Peeters, Janssens, Maes
Nowak, Kowalski, Wisniewski
Virtanen, Korhonen, Nieminen
Garcia, Fernandez, Gonzalez
Smith, Jones, Williams
Nagy, Kovacs, Toth

Surnames	Country
Smirnov, Ivanov, Kuznetsov
Hansen, Johansen, Olsen
Borg, Camilleri, Vella
Müller, Meier, Schmid
Novak, Horvat, Krajnc
Martin, Bernard, Dubois
Popa, Popescu, Ionescu
Berzins, Kalnins, Ozolins
De Jong, Jansen, De Vries
Johansson, Andersson, Karlsson
Novak, Svoboda, Novotny
Nikolic, Petrovic, Jovanovic
Gruber, Huber, Bauer
Ivanov, Tamm, Saar

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European Countries by Surnames Quiz

by Markovic

Created Sep 11, 2010 in Geography
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	WeaselKing1000:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 22:29 GMT	16 points
	Good idea for a quiz. Nominated.

	PaTTeri:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 13:18 GMT	17 points
	Where are Portugal and Greece? Great idea anyways!

	Ireland:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT	2 points
	Loved it!!!

	Lauro:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT	3 points
	Hehe, great quiz! Nominated for sure!!!

	newenglander:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT	10 points
	when anyone else came saw the names that all ended with a c, groan and go through every balkan country like me?

	joebobs:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 18:41 GMT	5 points
	Very good quiz, and surely worthy of nomination, however, try and find a better source than wikipedia, as they probably won't publish it with just wiki as a source. Also, if possible, it'd be great to see it extended to cover every European country!

	Markovic:	Sep 12th, 2010 at 19:10 GMT	1 point
	Yes, I searched for results for the other countries, but I couldn't find any. But wikipedia gives a source for most of these results, so I think its ok so.

	asae:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 18:01 GMT	7 points
	If you want to add Iceland to it, here are the three most common male given names: Jón, Sigurður and Guðmundur, according to the official Statistic Office of Iceland (http://www.hagstofa.is/Pages/1634). Thing is, we don't have family names but patronyms, that is, our last name is our father's name, plus -son or -dóttir depending on your gender . So simply put, top 3 last names would be Jónsson, Sigurðsson and Guðmundsson. (You can also use -dóttir instead of -son, but this is probably less complicated).

	Q_Pheevr:	Sep 16th, 2010 at 21:24 GMT	5 points
	Reżistenza huwa għalxejn. Inti se jiġu assimilati.

	Freddie:	Sep 16th, 2010 at 21:33 GMT	17 points
	No sweat if you know your footballers!

	peterpan55:	Sep 17th, 2010 at 00:34 GMT	-3 points
	I always forget just ONE of the Scandavian countries, but its a different one every time!!! This time, Denmark! Grrr!

	steeltown:	Sep 17th, 2010 at 06:57 GMT	1 point
	@Q__Pheevr: LOL, props.

	FranckNicole:	Sep 19th, 2010 at 05:10 GMT	0 points
	I enjoyed the quiz but I am French and "Perrot" cannot be right. Also are you sure about Belgium because almost half the population is French speaking and all names are from Flandres (dutch speaking)

	Pillowmint:	Sep 19th, 2010 at 19:26 GMT	1 point
	I like the quiz, but could you make the font darker? I can't see what I've written.

	adal:	Sep 21st, 2010 at 08:11 GMT	2 points
	The list for France on Wikipedia doesn't match the source it quotes. It says that Perrot is actually no. 146. The No. 3 is Dubois.

	Markovic:	Sep 21st, 2010 at 14:12 GMT	2 points
	You're right, I don't know why wikipedia lists "Perrot" at #3. I will change it, but the Belgium names seem to be correct.

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	Teary_Ennui:	Sep 24th, 2010 at 17:12 GMT	2 points
	The number of Icelanders with a certain surname will depend on the number of children (and their genders) that the Jons, Sigurds and Gudmunds have - that said it'd be pretty easy to guess anyway

	adamnvillani:	Sep 28th, 2010 at 06:54 GMT	7 points
	Most of the population of Belgium is Flemish; it's quite plausible that the top names could be Dutch instead of French. Also, it matters on how much differentiation in names there are in a particular language. Like, for example, say if you had an equal number of Koreans and Japanese, the top names would all be Korean because there are fewer popular Korean surnames.

	Teary_Ennui:	Oct 11th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT	13 points
	Interesting that so may are "son of John" - Jensen, Johannsson, Jones, Jovanovic, Ivanov

	tbwilson:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT	6 points
	^ Ionescu, too! Anyway, great quiz - I'd like to see an Asian version, too. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any lists of common African surnames.

	Colmar:	Jul 2nd, 2011 at 20:21 GMT	7 points
	PaTTeri said exactly what I was thinking. Being of Portuguese decent, I looked for 'Silva' before the quiz even began. Then there's the iconic Greek last names. That aside, it was incredibly fun trying to sort through USSR countries and Northern Euro Countries.

	recklessness:	Aug 6th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT	6 points
	What about Portugal? Santos, Silva and Ferreira are the 3 most common surnames.

	Acid_Snow:	Apr 1st, 2012 at 17:04 GMT	3 points
	Loved it.

	rubinii:	Apr 13th, 2012 at 18:50 GMT	1 point
	I've got my name there :D

	tm83:	Apr 13th, 2012 at 20:06 GMT	5 points
	Re: Belgium, many Francophones have Flemish names (nearly all of the Belgians I know are Francophones and nearly all have Flemish names) but it's a lot rarer to have a Flemish person with a French name. So that list makes perfect sense...

	PS90:	Apr 13th, 2012 at 22:47 GMT	2 points
	Very entertaining quiz! I must have tried "Greece" 10 times for "Kazlauskas, Petrauskas, Jankauskas"...

	SomeoneRandom:	Apr 15th, 2012 at 18:19 GMT	2 points
	Who knew there was a lot of Swedish immigration to Malta?