A DAY TO REMEMBER. On Friday, March 17, students from the UF College of Medicine class of 2017 discovered where they will spend the next four years â or more â of their medical careers.
Revealed: Why hispanic surnames dominate most common women's name combinations in America. 1  More than 38,000 Americans have the name James Smith. 2  On a list of the top 13 most popular full names in the U.S., the majority of the last names were Smith. 3  All but one of the most popular female full names have Spanish origins.
The surname distribution data at Forebears ranks Hernandez as the 85th most common surname in the world, identifying it as most prevalent in Mexico and with the highest density in Nicaragua. Hernandez is the most common surname in Mexico, where one in every forty-seven people bears the name. It also ranks 1st in El Salvador; 4th in Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, and Honduras; and 5th in Nicaragua.