What country's most common family name is Nguyen?
Nguyen in Vietnam extends to outside the country, due to numerous and widespread Vietnamese emigrants. Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as “Nguyen”. Nguyen is the seventh most common family name in Australia (second only to Smith in the Melbourne phone books), and the 54th most common in France. In the United States, it is the 57th most-common family name according to the 2000 Census, as well as the most common exclusively East Asian surname, a major leap from its 229th-place ranking in 1990. It is ranked 124th in the U.S. Social Security Index. It is the 56th
Scandinavian family name etymology and 2012. The general tendency over the past century has been to give up the commonest names and adopt less frequently-used ones. The most common Norwegian surnames were originally patronymic, commonly ending with the suffixes "-ssen", "-sson", "-sdatter", "-sdotter" which is the genitive s plus the word "sen" or "son" for son or "datter" or "dotter" for daughter. The genitive "s" was often dropped; compare Hanssen and Hansen. In 1923, it was ordered by law that each family should have a single, hereditary last name. Surnames derived from placenames commonly originated as farm names. Most families took a patronymic name,