It would be cool to provide also the meaning. In Polish Nowak stems from “new” (like Newman), and Kowalski (Smithson) is a close second. Belarussian Ivanow = son of Ivan = Johnson, and Ukrainian Melnik = miller.
You mean ‘common’, not popular.
If people were picking their own surnames, ‘popular’ would be correct.
Disagree that they are popular.
More like they are the ones that people have the most only.
I would not like to be a Müller as a last name for sure
Without data source its completely useless rubbish 🚮
Borg; wtf?
True, when I went to Iceland I met a lot of Patronymic names
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It would be cool to provide also the meaning. In Polish Nowak stems from “new” (like Newman), and Kowalski (Smithson) is a close second. Belarussian Ivanow = son of Ivan = Johnson, and Ukrainian Melnik = miller.
You mean ‘common’, not popular.
If people were picking their own surnames, ‘popular’ would be correct.
Disagree that they are popular.
More like they are the ones that people have the most only.
I would not like to be a Müller as a last name for sure
Without data source its completely useless rubbish 🚮
Borg; wtf?
True, when I went to Iceland I met a lot of Patronymic names
Hoxha is not even a top 5 in Kosovo