Surname Frequency

Top 40 most common surnames across 41,194 named records.

17,769 distinct surnames in total.

#SurnameCount% of named records
1 Smith 298 0.72%
2 Williams 178 0.43%
3 Botha 151 0.37%
4 Brown 132 0.32%
5 Van Der Merwe 126 0.31%
6 Jacobs 124 0.3%
7 Du Plessis 106 0.26%
8 Jones 103 0.25%
9 Johnson 103 0.25%
10 Wilson 100 0.24%
11 Taylor 99 0.24%
12 Nel 98 0.24%
13 Coetzee 98 0.24%
14 Kruger 95 0.23%
15 Van Wyk 92 0.22%
16 Fourie 91 0.22%
17 Adams 86 0.21%
18 Du Toit 82 0.2%
19 Meyer 81 0.2%
20 Van Zyl 79 0.19%
21 Van Niekerk 79 0.19%
22 Anderson 79 0.19%
23 Venter 78 0.19%
24 Pretorius 78 0.19%
25 Smit 74 0.18%
26 Van Heerden 71 0.17%
27 Martin 69 0.17%
28 Erasmus 69 0.17%
29 Scott 68 0.17%
30 Thomas 67 0.16%
31 Le Roux 66 0.16%
32 Thompson 65 0.16%
33 Roberts 65 0.16%
34 Marais 64 0.16%
35 Joubert 64 0.16%
36 Miller 59 0.14%
37 Louw 59 0.14%
38 Steyn 58 0.14%
39 Potgieter 58 0.14%
40 Green 58 0.14%