100 Most Common Surnames In Vancouver
November 3rd, 2007 by Alan YuI was reading in the Vancouver Sun newspaper today which has an article about the 100 most common surnames in the BC lower mainland area. While I guess this isn’t exactly mind blowing information, I thought it was kind of interesting to read about the origins of various surnames. I thought I would post the list up for anyone else who may be interested in it:
| Rank | Surname | Origin |
| 1 | Lee | Multi |
| 2 | Wong | Chinese |
| 3 | Chan | Chinese |
| 4 | Smith | English |
| 5 | Kim | Korean |
| 6 | Chen | Chinese |
| 7 | Gill | Punjabi/English |
| 8 | Li | Chinese |
| 9 | Brown | Multi |
| 10 | Johnson | English |
| 11 | Wang | Chinese |
| 12 | Wilson | English/Scottish |
| 13 | Leung | Chinese |
| 14 | Anderson | English |
| 15 | Lam | Chinese |
| 16 | Jones | English |
| 17 | Taylor | English |
| 18 | Singh | Punjabi |
| 19 | Liu | Chinese |
| 20 | Williams | English |
| 21 | Ng | Chinese |
| 22 | Wu | Chinese |
| 23 | Ho | Korean |
| 24 | Campbell | Scottish |
| 25 | Chow | Chinese |
| 26 | Macdonald | Scottish/Irish |
| 27 | Miller | English |
| 28 | Chang | Chinese |
| 29 | Huang | Chinese |
| 30 | Lin | Chinese |
| 31 | Cheung | Chinese |
| 32 | Martin | Multi |
| 33 | Lau | Chinese |
| 34 | Young | English |
| 35 | Thompson | Multi |
| 36 | Scott | English/Scottish |
| 37 | Nguyen | Vietnamese |
| 38 | Cheng | Chinese |
| 39 | Zhang | Chinese |
| 40 | Yu | Korean |
| 41 | Stewart | Scottish |
| 42 | Yang | Korean |
| 43 | Sidhu | Punjabi |
| 44 | Sandhu | Punjabi |
| 45 | White | Multi |
| 46 | Park | Multi |
| 47 | Robinson | Multi |
| 48 | Moore | English |
| 49 | Dhaliwal | Punjabi |
| 50 | Clark | English |
| 51 | Mitchell | Multi |
| 52 | Tang | Chinese |
| 53 | Walker | English/Scottish |
| 54 | McDonald | Scottish/Irish |
| 55 | Ross | English/Scottish |
| 56 | Johnston | Scottish |
| 57 | Reid | Scottish |
| 58 | Grewal | Punjabi |
| 59 | Chu | Chinese/Korean |
| 60 | Ma | Chinese |
| 61 | Thomas | Multi |
| 62 | Hall | Multi |
| 63 | Lai | Chinese |
| 64 | Chung | Chinese |
| 65 | Wright | English/Scottish |
| 66 | Choi | Chinese |
| 67 | Dhillon | Punjabi |
| 68 | Jackson | English |
| 69 | Baker | English |
| 70 | Evans | Welsh |
| 71 | Robertson | English |
| 72 | King | English |
| 73 | Bell | English |
| 74 | Davis | English/Scottish |
| 75 | Lo | Chinese |
| 76 | Graham | Scottish |
| 77 | Wood | English/Scottish |
| 78 | Fraser | Scottish |
| 79 | Roberts | English |
| 80 | Harris | English/German |
| 81 | Watson | English/Scottish |
| 82 | Peters | English |
| 83 | Friesen | German/Dutch |
| 84 | Tam | Chinese |
| 85 | Mann | English/German |
| 86 | Lewis | English |
| 87 | Lim | Multi |
| 88 | Clarke | English |
| 89 | Phillips | Multi |
| 90 | Yeung | Chinese |
| 91 | Hill | English/Scottish |
| 92 | Nelson | English/Scottish |
| 93 | Davies | Welsh |
| 94 | Murray | Scottish/Irish |
| 95 | Grant | Multi |
| 96 | Brar | Punjabi |
| 97 | Morrison | Scottish |
| 98 | Tran | Vietnamese |
| 99 | Fung | Chinese |
| 100 | Hamilton | Scottish/Irish |
