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predecessed by: first name blog/survey
these are the top 11 most common last names in the world according to the office for international statistics. if your lastname is one of them, vote for it. if not, vote for other.
Poll: What is your last name?
(Vote): Chang/Zhang
(Vote): Li
(Vote): Smith
(Vote): Johnson
(Vote): Williams
(Vote): Wang
(Vote): Jones
(Vote): Rodriguez
(Vote): Miller/Muller
(Vote): Jensen/Jansen/Johansson
(Vote): Nowak/Novak/Newman
(Vote): Other
fun fact about last names: in the netherlands, the most common last name is "De Jong", followed by "De Vries". try combining your first name with one of these and see how it sounds.
 
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Kim should be one 
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I'm the first and so far only Miller/Muller? Dude what?
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yeah i was considering sneaking in some popular korean names (kim, lee, park, choi).
i was also thinking of sneaking in yo hwan.
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TL.net is a pretty diverse place; it's going to be difficult to fit people into one of those last name categories.
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other is actually my last name ♥_♥
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
Lol my mothers maiden name is miller.
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my last name is zufah
why isn't that on the list?
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On July 03 2008 16:11 alffla wrote:
Lee but not Li
This has always confused me, what with Lee, Yi, Li, Rhee etc. Sometimes it's different romanizations for the same name, or the same romanization for different names (as in 이 is obviously not "Lee").
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No arab last names listed 
Btw, nice new icon alffla
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
On July 03 2008 16:59 Ancestral wrote:This has always confused me, what with Lee, Yi, Li, Rhee etc. Sometimes it's different romanizations for the same name, or the same romanization for different names (as in 이 is obviously not "Lee").
yeah no fuckin idea either ROFL but in the end they're all the same chinese character 李
thx ^^;
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On July 03 2008 16:17 littlechava wrote:
my last name is zufah
why isn't that on the list?
maybe because it is not in top 11? :D
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Most Koreans use Lee. I've seens one Yi and one Rhee, the former last name of Korean General Yi Sun-Shin and the latter last name of a famous Korean author named Rhee Won-Bok (whom I know personally ^^).
I've only seen Chinese people use Li. Lee is the most common among Koreans.
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My surname is pretty weird in terms of spelling.
I have it as "Chui", our uncle has it as "Tsui".
I've met people who have it spelled "Choi", "Tse", "Chiu", etc.
In korean it's "Seo", in mandarin it's "Xu" (I think).
It's all the same character, but pronounced differently in various languages so there's lots of spellings for it.
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EPT
