Top 100 British Surnames - Pronunciation©

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  • @ll5584
    @ll5584 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for the perfect pronunciation 👍🏻👍🏻 we can hear you're from London 🇬🇧👍🏻

  • @andreaphillips7146
    @andreaphillips7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Patel,Ali, Singh and Houssain are not English surnames.

    • @tommytrinder.1226
      @tommytrinder.1226 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hes saying they are the most common surnames in Britain right now.

    • @francoisdaureville323
      @francoisdaureville323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Britain has a lot of Indians

    • @RS-ln3ns
      @RS-ln3ns ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BRITAIN DOES HAVE A VERY LARGE INDIAN POPULATION LIVING THERE BUT THE SURNAMES PATEL AND SINGH, ARE NOT BRITISH. THEY ARE BOTH INDIAN SURNAMES. THE SURNAMES ALI, KHAN AND HUSSAIN ARE OBVIOUSLY, NOT BRITISH. THEY ARE ALL A MUSLIM SURNAME. SOME OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS VIDEO IS NOT CORRECT.😊

    • @Reyaz
      @Reyaz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      neither is kelly or murphy

    • @tigerland4328
      @tigerland4328 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Reyaztrue but Kelly and Murphy originate in the British isles

  • @lukeskywalkerjediknight2125
    @lukeskywalkerjediknight2125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ya'll literally to understand "Skywalker" is the coolest last name.

    • @3hw.
      @3hw. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If your name is Luke, perfect

    • @annecohen8927
      @annecohen8927 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They forgot to include Carr…..

  • @mharris9655
    @mharris9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow I always thought Davies was pronounced Dayvees lol.

  • @davidhiram8045
    @davidhiram8045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great!

  • @ll5584
    @ll5584 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your pronunciation

  • @francescoferro4277
    @francescoferro4277 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This served me a lot to know more about surnames.

  • @jbeezy1101
    @jbeezy1101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Patel is indian dude

    • @andreaphillips7146
      @andreaphillips7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is Singh

    • @user-mv2jm4ff2o
      @user-mv2jm4ff2o 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah Also Singh and Khan is also found in India,Pakistan and Afghanistan

    • @shahilagh
      @shahilagh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are so integrated in the country … same as Ali and HUssain as Arabic ..

    • @RS-ln3ns
      @RS-ln3ns ปีที่แล้ว

      YES, AND THE SURNAME SINGH IS ALSO INDIAN. THE SURNAME ALI, KHAN AND HUSSAIN, ARE ALL A MUSLIM SURNAME.

  • @maryenglish7030
    @maryenglish7030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My last name is English it should of been number 1

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your last name is Welsh that's why

    • @jamesu1540
      @jamesu1540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ll5584 it could be Scottish also

  • @keithharris1521
    @keithharris1521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That's only 99, as Davies was a double-up. I have always believed Holmes is correctly pronounced Homes. If Welsh, Irish and Indian names were included, why not Scottish?

  • @mickeencrua
    @mickeencrua 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Davies at 6 and 45? Is Hughes misspelt as Hugues?

  • @imranhanchinal1127
    @imranhanchinal1127 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank-you so much sir

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's very polite.

  • @vikrantsharma1547
    @vikrantsharma1547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    no root, carberry, trott, burns, trescothik, strauss, vaughan sidebottom, broad, collingwood, knight

  • @savannahwilliams5938
    @savannahwilliams5938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t know why, but I find it so funny that I clicked on this video just for fun to see if my last name would show up on this list and it ended up being number 3😂

  • @freefiregrena1209
    @freefiregrena1209 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best

  • @vercingetorix3414
    @vercingetorix3414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How about:
    Featherstonehaugh ?
    Pronounced: Fan shaw.
    Or Saint Claire Pronounced
    Sinclair
    Cholmondely -- Chumley
    Worcestershire--- Wooster

    • @terinn7115
      @terinn7115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't care about your age, sex, nationality, or anything else- - - -I'm in love with you. First, you're aware of the Chumley hilarity; Second, you gifted me with the even better Fanshaw. But when I checked out your screen name, I nearly swooned. Vercingetorix is one of my heroes. I keep a picture of him next to where I sleep, I shit you not. I learned about him from Historia Civilis. PLUS, Dr. Strangelove ? I am not worthy.

  • @celticm6616
    @celticm6616 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    On our mum's side was Halsey years ago there was only about two in the telephone book maybe more nowadays but no wonder it's not on there.

  • @nikolozi7097
    @nikolozi7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i liked and u got 600 likes

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍🏻

  • @jiminiepabo8521
    @jiminiepabo8521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How about *english?*
    I’m not joking that is my last name :(

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're Welsh then

  • @kevinsavage808
    @kevinsavage808 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was like pulling teeth

  • @sirrat7164
    @sirrat7164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sounds like you're reading the phone book for America

  • @soundwave5109
    @soundwave5109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a British person my name isn’t on there

  • @martinranalli8572
    @martinranalli8572 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Murphy and Kelly are not British but are Irish and Patel Khan Singh Begum Ali and Hussain are also not British but are from South Asia.

  • @desleypage6306
    @desleypage6306 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My Paternal ancestry is pure English, I would have expected the surname of PAGE to be on this list?? You have included names that are not of British origin. Perhaps this is a list of most common today. Disappointed, perhaps you could next time put the time period for the names.

    • @floatahhh
      @floatahhh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have a parent or grandparent from here?

  • @user-pf2ll4ck7f
    @user-pf2ll4ck7f ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been living and working in Australia for five years and names are the biggest problem for me. Even some first names, I found them difficult to pronounce and it is rude to say someone's name wrong.

  • @ladealottings2462
    @ladealottings2462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why the eff am i not on there !!! 😂😂

    • @jamesu1540
      @jamesu1540 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me neither, it just means we are not as common 😁😁😁

  • @theprogamer7973
    @theprogamer7973 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ayeee I’m on there

  • @ll5584
    @ll5584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    38. George HARRISON 👍🏻

  • @kimberlylewis2185
    @kimberlylewis2185 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    #21! 😊

  • @christopherbenjaminwalker8600
    @christopherbenjaminwalker8600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am American 🇺🇸 and my surname "Walker" comes from my patrilineal lineage ancestors who came from England, I am proud.

    • @danisha707
      @danisha707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lucky you hv a surname, my family & my country doesn't own any surnames

    • @phyllisanngodfrey6137
      @phyllisanngodfrey6137 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My surname is “Barlow” and is English as well. I am the proud descendent of colonists who arrived to the Chesapeake colony in Anne Arundel County, MD in 1680 🇺🇸

  • @chanmyaenyein2555
    @chanmyaenyein2555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Liam edwards

  • @peterflack9933
    @peterflack9933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Peter James Flack. Flack being a sur-name.

  • @81wendyclark
    @81wendyclark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My last name is Clark. I have a family tree that goes back to England.

  • @ferndavies4276
    @ferndavies4276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Davies is on there twice

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So what's the big deal ?

    • @DrearyOne
      @DrearyOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ll5584 The deal isn't very big but it is the fact it only needs to be in the list once...lol

  • @francoisdaureville323
    @francoisdaureville323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some people apparently think scotland and britain are two difrent places here 95% of the surnames here are Either british or irish and british includes england scotland and wales, Northern ireland is part of the uk there comes the irish the other 5% are indian/pakistani surnames because we got a lot of pakistanís and indians in the uk britosh of Indian and pakistan origin

  • @anenlightenedmisfit6262
    @anenlightenedmisfit6262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't even have a last name ☹

  • @rawnakjahan6873
    @rawnakjahan6873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    SINGH IS INDIAN TOO?!

  • @emilyresendiz9867
    @emilyresendiz9867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm from Australia

  • @doloresfisher596
    @doloresfisher596 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Murphy was on this list and unless I'm.very much mistaken Murphy is an Irish name so not really classed as British.Fisher is also on it and as far as I know it's German and can also be spelled with a c

  • @umbradaemon3360
    @umbradaemon3360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sorry mate but Patel, Khan, Singh, Begum, Ali and Hussain aren't British surnames

    • @sallubhaigamer3322
      @sallubhaigamer3322 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is indian sirnames bro ....who liva in england

    • @theblackshritbrit1693
      @theblackshritbrit1693 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sallubhaigamer3322 we know dickhead

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theblackshritbrit1693 😂

    • @swapnilchaudhari8420
      @swapnilchaudhari8420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theblackshritbrit1693 You know it but he is saying it to commenter who is confused about it.
      Don't behave like Christian extremist

  • @KristinaTurnerUS
    @KristinaTurnerUS 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    George Washington Turner and Patrick Henry Turner and Otis Lloyd Turner seem to be the most often repeated in my family that settled the USA and fought against each other in the American Revolutionary War and American Civil War and French and Indian and Spanish Wars and it seems like all the wars. Kristina Marie Turner My name seems to be repeated a lot also.

  • @notonline411
    @notonline411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bobby hill

  • @420Alrighty69
    @420Alrighty69 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My last name is in here lol

  • @theejakeboiofficial1394
    @theejakeboiofficial1394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:20

  • @rapidrunner9522
    @rapidrunner9522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Patel before Martin

  • @ricohofmann8416
    @ricohofmann8416 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I notice there are some Surnames which could also using as First Names.And Fisher is also a common Surname in Germany but we Spelling it : " F.I.S.C.H.E.R .

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep

  • @VietNguyen-vi7xt
    @VietNguyen-vi7xt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did you repeat each name twice in two different sounds? What does each kind of sound mean?

  • @WolflySloths
    @WolflySloths 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There are some colors in there

  • @RS-ln3ns
    @RS-ln3ns ปีที่แล้ว +3

    SOME OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS VIDEO IS INCORRECT. PATEL AND SINGH ARE NOT BRITISH SURNAMES. THEY ARE BOTH, A VERY COMMON INDIAN SURNAME. EVERY PERSON I HAVE KNOWN AND I KNEW MANY, WITH THE SURNAME PATEL AND SINGH, WERE ONLY INDIAN AND NOT INDIGENOUS BRITISH. THE SURNAME ALI, KHAN AND HUSSAIN, ARE ALL A MUSLIM SURNAME AND NOT BRITISH.

    • @johnlawton3503
      @johnlawton3503 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah but they’re common names in Britain because many people of Indian, Muslim descent live in Britain

    • @tigerland4328
      @tigerland4328 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@johnlawton3503but they aren't British names

  • @JameyLeanneCooper
    @JameyLeanneCooper 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    My second name is cooper and my cousin’s second name is walker

  • @leonardliverpool5073
    @leonardliverpool5073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Okay

  • @WolflySloths
    @WolflySloths 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A singer called Alan walker has his last name in it. It’s number 15

  • @roulexxi
    @roulexxi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m here 85.

  • @PillBoxUK
    @PillBoxUK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    74

  • @Alexa-ub6jw
    @Alexa-ub6jw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My last name is Berkshire, and it's of English origin, but I have not the slightest clue if it's common or not. lol.

    • @johnlawton3503
      @johnlawton3503 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lived here in a England for all 24 years of my life and never met or heard of a Berkshire surname so I’d say it’s probably pretty rare :) it’s a habitational name, Berkshire is a county in Southern England just west of London

  • @haroldjones9321
    @haroldjones9321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Davis/Davies (Davees)

  • @csbcsb4458
    @csbcsb4458 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weird...my first name is more common as a surname than what my surname is and are both in this list...

  • @lupes692
    @lupes692 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought my surname peacock may have made the list

  • @annecohen8927
    @annecohen8927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cowen (Owen) with a C

  • @phyllisanngodfrey6137
    @phyllisanngodfrey6137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of these names are from Wales, IRELAND, etc. so I assume these names were taken from Commonwealth census records and are not English in origin.

    • @tigerland4328
      @tigerland4328 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's 100 "British names" (English, Scottish,Welsh and northern Irish)

  • @jhaypaowi02
    @jhaypaowi02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Taylor and Davies dont mind this comment just for sims surnames lol

  • @jindoratheexplorer3678
    @jindoratheexplorer3678 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Probs Bill, Jack and Tom

  • @liambate2301
    @liambate2301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My last name isn’t even on there and I’m english

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you sure you're English ?

    • @chomama1628
      @chomama1628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He said the top 100.

    • @RS-ln3ns
      @RS-ln3ns ปีที่แล้ว

      THERE ARE MANY MORE BRITISH SURNAMES WHICH WERE NOT MENTIONED ON THIS VIDEO, SUCH AS, HAWKINS, ARMSTRONG, HOWARD, LAURENCE ETC....

  • @shari4777
    @shari4777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Im a Hall.

  • @iixkaydenceyy4883
    @iixkaydenceyy4883 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is Waggoner on there?

  • @dandylmarjoeybasan8271
    @dandylmarjoeybasan8271 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Basan or Bashan some in Middlesex, England derived the Biblical Jew and Byzantine Crusaders. But I am not British or American. I am a Filipino guy of Visayan (Surigaonon Cebuano )ethnicity some Basque blood some Sephardic Jew.

  • @Gravyballs2011
    @Gravyballs2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Davies appears at #45 and #6

  • @billsbillsbillsss7783
    @billsbillsbillsss7783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why am i so hyped up to watch this if my surname is Japanese..
    I'm Rin Uchika btw

    • @danisha707
      @danisha707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wow nice, as a indonesian, surnames r inavailable. so, every family hv their own different middle & last names

  • @humourisdead619
    @humourisdead619 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a Carrington

  • @jakemcwhorter7669
    @jakemcwhorter7669 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is fowler

  • @767track9
    @767track9 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    bennett mcknight and adams

  • @rishikaedwards9622
    @rishikaedwards9622 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    my lasts name is in here lol

  • @ranger1217
    @ranger1217 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a campbell

  • @jess-bj2vu
    @jess-bj2vu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well mine is hall

  • @olyudenpatton8922
    @olyudenpatton8922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My surname is Patton

  • @andreaphillips7146
    @andreaphillips7146 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a Phillips was an Osborne

  • @froobidoobidoba
    @froobidoobidoba 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    they forgot cholerton

  • @peterflack9933
    @peterflack9933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have a name most people in America think about abusing because it's .....flack. If you give someone flack remember my name. I don't give people flack unless they deserve it. Even if it's the afterlife. Don't abuse my name.

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Surnames are weird. Flack is english ( from old english) then there was Flack migration to the US with plenty of new " Flack " around the world.

    • @peterflack9933
      @peterflack9933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ll5584 Thanks for acknowledging!

  • @marvinsilverman4394
    @marvinsilverman4394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:29 Davies
    2:50 Davies

  • @imranhanchinal1127
    @imranhanchinal1127 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    New names video s send please

  • @pcong498
    @pcong498 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My last name is smith ;-;

  • @cherriesclarkson9996
    @cherriesclarkson9996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m 34 and i live in Australia lol

    • @isabellewhittle7669
      @isabellewhittle7669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Meme Meme Maybe because you are descendants of British people

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@isabellewhittle7669 👍🏻

  • @JamezzGamez
    @JamezzGamez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well I’m part of the top people I’m a smith

  • @rawnakjahan6873
    @rawnakjahan6873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ALI IS INDIAN!!!

  • @alexgardner1503
    @alexgardner1503 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why am I here? I'm British and know how to pronounce all of these.

  • @sleepycryptid8275
    @sleepycryptid8275 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:28

  • @juliewhite9940
    @juliewhite9940 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mine is White XD

  • @maisyrichardson7651
    @maisyrichardson7651 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    55 = me !!!

  • @holliecaroleannsmith7329
    @holliecaroleannsmith7329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Smith hahaa me

  • @lindadobson9854
    @lindadobson9854 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well!! Where's Hartnup??

  • @hmm6698
    @hmm6698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where's Kemp?

  • @ultimatefighter225
    @ultimatefighter225 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought ELLIS would be higher than #68.

  • @mattinfullvision9598
    @mattinfullvision9598 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mine isn't on this list but then again it is an Irish name

    • @mattinfullvision9598
      @mattinfullvision9598 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anneraynaud2679 nice one, cheers

    • @davehoward22
      @davehoward22 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im from Yorkshire and my paternal names gill. Very irish apparently

    • @Dolanlol1984
      @Dolanlol1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      DOLAN 💚 old school Irish Lass, living in the land of oz. High 5 to all theFellow Irish ⭐👍🌞💚

  • @epicalyt
    @epicalyt ปีที่แล้ว

    My last name is Sylvester I'm in the UK

  • @qwoc
    @qwoc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is goldsmith here

  • @emilyr7435
    @emilyr7435 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm reynoldson

  • @michaelheeheejackson7255
    @michaelheeheejackson7255 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im a Moore

  • @leslielaplant4122
    @leslielaplant4122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I ALLWAYS LIKED PPL THAT ARE BRITTISH AND I LOVE BRITISH AND AND AND MY NAME IS MIMI ISABELLA WOOD AHHH

    • @anastasya3990
      @anastasya3990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you name a surname in accordance with the name Anastasia?

  • @Gokutheraisedsaiyansonearth
    @Gokutheraisedsaiyansonearth 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You forgot crawford

  • @jindoratheexplorer3678
    @jindoratheexplorer3678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Patel" lmaooo aint dat indian unooo

    • @ll5584
      @ll5584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Patel is also French - who cares, i like his excellent pronunciation.