The website forebears collects genealogical data from a number of history books from a range of countries, and then classifies the collected data on a world map. In this way, you may find that the most common surname in the world is Wang, and there are over 76 milions. You will not be surprised by the information that the most Wang surnames are located in China. In fact, from 10 most common surnames in the world, 7 are from China and 3 others are from the second most populous country in the world – India.
Popular name in English-speaking countries is Smith and around 4 million people have this surname. However, this is only the 117th most common surname in the world.
The most popular surname in BiH is Hodzic.
Hodzic 28,559 (frequency: every 133. citizen of BiH holds Hodzic surname)
Hadzic 19,181 (198 per frequency)
Kovacevic 17,220 (220)
Maric 13,352 (284)
Imamovic 13,193 (287)
Babic 12,717 (298)
Markovic 12,611 (301)
Delic 12,293 (308)
Petrovic 11.392 (333)
Savic 11,233 (338)
In Croatia:
Horvat – 25,312 (frequency: every 133. citizens of Croatia hold Horvat surname)
Novak – 13,132 (327 per frequency)
Maric – 12,705 (338)
Kovacevic – 11,617 (369)
Babic – 10,879 (394)
Kovacic – 10 063 (426)
Jurić – 9,849 (436)
Matic – 9810 (437)
Petrovic – 9305 (461)
Markovic – 9091 (472)
(Source: N1)
