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Surname Frequency

Top 40 most common surnames across 48,386 named records.

19,096 distinct surnames in total.

#SurnameCount% of named records
1 Smith 324 0.67%
2 Botha 261 0.54%
3 Williams 180 0.37%
4 Du Plessis 173 0.36%
5 Jacobs 166 0.34%
6 Van Niekerk 157 0.32%
7 Coetzee 157 0.32%
8 Pretorius 149 0.31%
9 Venter 145 0.3%
10 Smit 145 0.3%
11 Fourie 144 0.3%
12 Kruger 143 0.3%
13 Nel 141 0.29%
14 Brown 140 0.29%
15 Van Wyk 139 0.29%
16 Erasmus 129 0.27%
17 Du Toit 128 0.26%
18 Van Der Merwe 127 0.26%
19 Van Zyl 119 0.25%
20 Meyer 116 0.24%
21 Joubert 115 0.24%
22 Potgieter 112 0.23%
23 Van Rensburg 111 0.23%
24 Johnson 108 0.22%
25 Jones 107 0.22%
26 Wilson 106 0.22%
27 Steyn 103 0.21%
28 Taylor 101 0.21%
29 Van Heerden 99 0.2%
30 Van Rooyen 92 0.19%
31 Viljoen 91 0.19%
32 De Villiers 91 0.19%
33 Marais 87 0.18%
34 Adams 87 0.18%
35 De Beer 86 0.18%
36 Du Preez 84 0.17%
37 Swanepoel 83 0.17%
38 Anderson 82 0.17%
39 Swart 81 0.17%
40 Oosthuizen 81 0.17%