Can you name the country by its most common surname? by nrs

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Most Common Last Name, by Country Quiz

by nrs

Created Oct 14, 2009 in Language
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	alidee:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	5 points
	I'm shocked that LI is the common-most surname in Canada. Thought it would have been more Anglican/English, if not French.

	wolver:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 11:26 GMT	7 points
	I have never heard of anyone called Mulvey, let alone an Irish person, and I'm half Irish.

	LinuxLinus:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	1 point
	The Canada one was the only one I was sure of, though I was able to guess some others.

	max123:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 20:48 GMT	-3 points
	did anyone else guess muller 'light' and smirnov 'ice'? tv ads have overpowered my brain lol @:)

	clavinfield:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	2 points
	After trying China and Taiwan for "Li" (and grasping for straws with guesses like Hong Kong and South Korea), I entered Canada as a lark and was pleasantly surprised with a correct answer! Ha, stuff you don't know about your own country until it turns up on Sporcle.

	orbit:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 06:44 GMT	3 points
	Wow, I figured that Li for Canada had to be Wikipedia vandalism. It's not. Here's the source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/name-change/common-surnames.html

	quizzicle:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 09:04 GMT	1 point
	i knew philippines would be near the bottom of the most guessed.. only missed canada yay!

	Fireball07:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	3 points
	I'm Irish and Mulvey is not the most common Irish surname. I can tell you this for a fact. It's either Murphy or Kelly. I got 24, didn't get the Canada one

	Tahnan:	Jan 11th, 2010 at 02:28 GMT	2 points
	This quiz would be better if it were based on any kind of accurate reporting. It seems to have been taken from Wikipedia, and there's no shortage of discussion on that page of how inaccurate it is. The Canadian list, for instance, is based on a US company's survey of telephone books, and therefore only counts households, and those with landlines at that. "Mulvey" is no longer listed for Ireland. And so forth.

	rca:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 21:54 GMT	1 point
	Fun quiz

	RS89:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 02:51 GMT	1 point
	The Wikipedia list used as the source is highly inaccurate and subject to vandalism. This would be a good quiz if it had a decent source.

	chriskotx:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	1 point
	Even if it might have been less than accurate, I really enjoyed this game - matching ethnic names with where they came from. Santos was the trickiest one I got..I typed in all the Latin American countries before I finally had a flash of realization.

	sanjam:	Aug 27th, 2011 at 22:32 GMT	1 point
	Korhonen has passed Virtanen as the most common last name in Finland.