A Country of García’s and González’s

The INE (Spanish National Institute of Statistics) released some research showing the most popular names in Spain with data on first names for males and females and surnames for all families in Spain in 2006. For the ladies there were some 6 million women called María and some three million men were called José, whilst the top ten surnames in Spain are shared amongst almost 20% of the entire population. Top Surnames were García (3.32% of the population), González (2.08), Fernández (2.08) and Rodríguez (2.07). You can see a list of the top names here.