“Three names I would never name my child as a speech therapist: Rory, Rowan and Aurora. They’re so hard to say,” the expert ...

By the 19th and 20th centuries, it was so common that German immigrants to the US began anglicizing their last names, such as Schmitz or Schmidt, into Smith, according to familytree.com.

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The most common last names chosen in the 1870 census were – Johnson, Smith, Williams, Jones & Brown, according to EJI’s analysis of Census records.

Our research used Linkedin data to analyze 66,623,142 profiles to understand the most common first and last names for graduates across the Ivy League universities, made up of Harvard University ...