1. Armenia

2. Azerbaijan

3. Bangladesh

4. Cambodia

5. China

6. Georgia

7. India

8. Indonesia

9. Israel

10. Japan

11. Korea

12. Nepal

13. Philippines

14. Sri Lanka

15. Taiwan

16. Thailand

17. Turkey

18. Vietnam

19. See also

20. Notes

21. References

This is a list of the most common surnames in Asia, in alphabetical order of the country.

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Cambodia

Cambodian names are borrowed from Chinese, Sanskrit, Vietnamese words.

China

According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on April 24, 2007,^[2][3][4] the top three surnames in China have a combined population larger than Indonesia,^[5]{{Synthesis inline|date=May 2017}} the world's fourth-most-populous country. The top 10 surnames each have a population greater than 20 million; the top 22 have populations of more than 10 million. The top 100 surnames cover 84.77% of China's population.

The press release from the Ministry of Public Security only provided detailed numbers for the top three surnames. Information about the others from 2006 comes from a multi-year study by Yuan Yida of the Chinese Academy of Sciences's Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, which purportedly used a sample size of 296 million spread across 1,110 counties and cities.^[6]

Georgia

India

Indonesia

Most Indonesians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names.

Israel

Japan

Officially, there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames,^[12] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are spelled and romanized similarly. The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 cover slightly more than 33%.^[13]

This ranking is a result of "The National Same Family Name Investigation" by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.^[13] This investigation included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities, as of August 2008.

Korea

Nepal

Surnames in Nepal are divided into three origins; Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins. Indo-Aryan surnames dominates over other language origin surnames.

Philippines

The Catálogo alfabético de apellidos (English: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames; Tagalog: Alpabetikong Katalogo ng mga apelyedo) is a book of surnames in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies published in the mid-19th century. This was in response to a Spanish colonial decree establishing the distribution of Spanish family names and local surnames among colonial subjects who did not have a prior surname. It is also the reason why Filipinos share the same surnames of Spanish people.[3]

The book was created after Spanish Governor-General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa issued a decree on November 21, 1849, to address the lack of a standard naming convention.[4] Newly-Christianised Filipinos often chose the now-ubiquitous surnames of de los Santos, de la Cruz, del Rosario, and Bautista for religious reasons; others preferred names of well-known local rulers such as Lacandola. To complicate matters further, discrepancies like family members holding different surnames would hinder some of the colonial government's activities such as taking a census and tax collection.