Official data from 25 countries
Every surname comes from a national statistical office or civil registry, so results reflect names people actually carry rather than invented spellings.
Last Name Generator
Choose any filters you like, then hit Generate to see real surnames drawn from official national statistics across 25 countries. Free, private, and browser-based.
20 last names
Poland
Kamińska
Argentina
González
Kazakhstan
Амиров
Argentina
Rodríguez
Taiwan
簡
South Korea
오
Argentina
Gómez
Mexico
Maldonado
Argentina
Díaz
Sweden
Lindqvist
Argentina
López
Iceland
Árnason
Italy
Borghi
Argentina
Fernández
South Korea
어
Argentina
Martínez
Latvia
Sokolovs
Latvia
Graudiņš
Argentina
Romero
Norway
Hauge
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Frequency you can filter
Lists stay in rank order, so the Common filter returns genuinely widespread surnames while Rare surfaces the long tail of the same dataset.
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Data sources
Surname data is published by national statistical offices and civil registries under open data licenses. Datasets are compiled via full-name-generator.
- RENAPER - Registro Nacional de las Personas (Argentina), 2022 — Open Data - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Statbel (Statistics Belgium), 2025 — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Censo Demográfico 2022 — Official government data - Attribution required to IBGE
- Czech Statistical Office (Český statistický úřad - ČSÚ) — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), 1994-2024 — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain — CC BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Väestötietojärjestelmän suomalaisten nimiaineistot — CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
- Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) - 1891-2000 — Licence Ouverte 2.0 / Open License 2.0
- Most common surnames - 2024, National Records of Scotland — Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown Copyright) - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Central Statistics Office Ireland — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (LAMAS) - First Names 2020 — CBS Open License (attribution required) - https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/Pages/Enduser-license.aspx
- Statistics Iceland - Ranks of male names by age group, 1st January 2023 — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- AGID - Agenzia per l'Italia digitale, Comune di Reggio Emilia - 2020 — Open Data - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) - Population and Housing Census 2015 — Korean government public data - https://kosis.kr/eng/aboutKosis/policyPublicData.do
- ҚР СЖРА Ұлттық статистика бюросы (Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan, National Population Census 2021) — Official statistical information - free use with attribution (see https://stat.gov.kz/en/description/)
- Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs of Latvia (PMLP) - Surnames Statistics 2014-2024 — Open Government Data - Free to use for non-commercial and commercial purposes with attribution - Official Statistics Portal
- Datamx.io (SEP - Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico, 2012) — Creative Commons CC Zero License (cc-zero)
- SSB (Statistics Norway) - Surname Statistics 2015 — Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0
- DIA (Department of Internal Affairs) - Most Used Surnames — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL — CC0 1.0 - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.pl
- SCB (Statistics Sweden) - Name Statistics — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - https://www.scb.se/en/About-us/about-the-website-and-terms-of-use/
- SURS (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) — Attribution Required - Source: SURS
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) - Most Used Surnames — Attribution Required - https://www.tuik.gov.tr/Kurumsal/Yasal_Uyari
- Department of Household Registration, Ministry of the Interior — Open Government Data License: https://data.gov.tw/license
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census — U.S. Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)