Most common surnames in Iran

The top 100 family names, ranked by how many people carry them.

Most common surnames in Iran
Rank	Surname	Origin & meaning	People
1	Mohammadi	—	914,359
2	Hosseini	—	713,421
3	Ahmadi	—	551,104
4	Ali	Arabic · “exalted”	470,706
5	Moradi	—	441,315
6	Heydari	—	429,146
7	Karimi	—	419,536
8	Mousavi	—	419,420
9	Jafari	—	418,656
10	Mohammad	—	374,620
11	Pour	—	370,666
12	Ghasemi	—	339,565
13	Rahimi	—	330,504
14	Ebrahimi	—	325,774
15	Sadeghi	—	297,022
16	Abbasi	—	284,090
17	Gholami	—	258,200
18	Akbari	—	250,248
19	Asadi	—	248,972
20	Zare	—	245,626
21	Mahmoudi	—	239,644
22	Ghorbani	—	239,261
23	Bagheri	—	232,572
24	Amiri	—	232,256
25	Kazemi	—	230,550
26	Zarei	—	229,404
27	Haji	—	229,098
28	Hashemi	—	221,192
29	Nouri	—	219,718
30	Yousefi	—	217,872
31	Alizadeh	—	212,721
32	Esmaeili	—	208,259
33	Rezaei	—	205,311
34	Salehi	—	204,636
35	Nazari	—	201,443
36	Mir	—	199,852
37	Razaee	—	199,643
38	Norouzi	—	197,434
39	Shah	—	190,518
40	Soleimani	—	190,504
41	Sharifi	—	187,840
42	Karami	—	183,758
43	Rahmani	—	181,589
44	Azizi	—	180,783
45	Rostami	—	179,979
46	Najafi	—	179,197
47	Safari	—	168,412
48	Amini	—	167,376
49	Soltani	—	166,207
50	Taheri	—	164,795
51	Ramezani	—	163,854
52	Razaie	—	155,727
53	Khosravi	—	155,081
54	Bahrami	—	152,950
55	Abdollahi	—	151,950
56	Mirzaei	—	145,395
57	Zamani	—	143,640
58	Dehghani	—	142,966
59	Maleki	—	138,960
60	Hasani	—	137,966
61	Ghanbari	—	134,227
62	Fathi	—	133,727
63	Hosseinzadeh	—	131,551
64	Rajabi	—	130,855
65	Abdi	—	130,411
66	Dehghan	—	128,534
67	Saeedi	—	122,498
68	Shabani	—	122,120
69	Hossein	—	121,800
70	Abbas	—	121,483
71	Mansouri	—	119,386
72	Asgari	—	117,030
73	Ranjbar	—	114,951
74	Naderi	—	112,147
75	Arab	—	111,466
76	Nassiri	—	109,312
77	Salimi	—	109,239
78	Sheikh	—	109,138
79	Jalali	—	107,503
80	Lotfi	—	106,628
81	Khalili	—	105,737
82	Habibi	—	104,316
83	Mohammadzadeh	—	103,255
84	Shafiee	—	102,969
85	Fallah	—	102,644
86	Goodarzi	—	101,365
87	Rashidi	—	100,981
88	Ghaffari	—	99,950
89	Eskandari	—	99,726
90	Rigi	—	99,513
91	Nasseri	—	98,888
92	Salari	—	98,128
93	Kiani	—	97,169
94	Tavakoli	—	95,251
95	Rasooli	—	94,899
96	Babaei	—	91,830
97	Azimi	—	90,934
98	Ghaderi	—	89,911
99	Bayat	—	88,878
100	Mirzaie	—	88,195

Source: Forebears (non-official). Rankings are updated when the publisher releases new data.

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