Most common surnames in Romania

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

Most common surnames in Romania
Rank	Surname	Origin & meaning	People
1	Popa	—	170,718
2	Popescu	—	128,553
3	Pop	—	116,467
4	Radu	—	110,591
5	Dumitru	—	89,659
6	Stan	—	81,364
7	Stoica	—	79,986
8	Gheorghe	—	79,542
9	Matei	—	76,799
10	Rusu	—	72,582
11	Mihai	—	69,728
12	Ciobanu	—	69,068
13	Constantin	—	67,565
14	Marín	—	67,409
15	Ionescu	—	62,307
16	Florea	—	62,035
17	Ilie	—	61,494
18	Toma	—	61,459
19	Stanciu	—	61,006
20	Munteanu	—	60,041
21	Vasile	—	58,719
22	Oprea	—	58,521
23	Tudor	—	58,033
24	Sandu	—	57,606
25	Moldovan	—	56,793
26	Ion	—	55,224
27	Ungureanu	—	55,174
28	Dinu	—	55,112
29	Andrei	—	53,373
30	Barbu	—	51,805
31	Șerban	—	51,510
32	Neagu	—	51,017
33	Cristea	—	47,890
34	Anghel	—	47,880
35	Lazăr	—	47,839
36	Dragomir	—	47,553
37	Enache	—	46,838
38	Badea	—	46,764
39	Ștefan	—	46,411
40	Vlad	—	45,942
41	Mocanu	—	44,586
42	Iordache	—	43,644
43	Coman	—	43,109
44	Cojocaru	—	42,999
45	Grigore	—	42,540
46	Voicu	—	41,820
47	Dobre	—	41,707
48	Petre	—	41,488
49	Nagy	—	41,294
50	Lupu	—	41,011
51	Lungu	—	40,989
52	Ivan	—	40,842
53	Ene	—	40,486
54	Preda	—	40,009
55	Román	—	39,902
56	Ioniță	—	38,474
57	Iancu	—	38,204
58	Nicolae	—	37,358
59	Bălan	—	37,163
60	Manea	—	36,775
61	Nistor	—	36,706
62	Stoian	—	36,408
63	Avram	—	36,353
64	Pavel	—	36,149
65	Simion	—	36,106
66	Rus	—	36,026
67	Iacob	—	35,650
68	Bucur	—	34,532
69	Luca	—	34,098
70	Olteanu	—	33,955
71	Filip	—	33,067
72	Tănase	—	32,884
73	Costea	—	32,437
74	Crăciun	—	32,350
75	David	French · “from given name David”	32,170
76	Stancu	—	31,911
77	Dumitrescu	—	31,891
78	Marcu	—	31,887
79	Mureșan	—	31,771
80	Diaconu	—	31,664
81	Nedelcu	—	31,518
82	Rotaru	—	31,411
83	Baciu	—	31,309
84	Szabó	—	30,806
85	Zaharia	—	30,422
86	Costache	—	29,366
87	Alexandru	—	28,979
88	Suciu	—	28,908
89	Dan	—	28,875
90	Anton	—	28,787
91	Bogdan	—	28,465
92	Roșu	—	28,384
93	Moraru	—	27,986
94	Toader	—	27,369
95	Paraschiv	—	26,573
96	Sava	—	26,293
97	Nica	—	25,964
98	Kovács	—	25,908
99	Niță	—	25,741
100	Muntean	—	25,699

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

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