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Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Garcia, and Miller held on to their top seven spots from the 2010 list of the most common last names in the United States.
In 2020, though, Rodriguez moved up to number eight, bumping down Davis to the ninth spot.
They're followed by Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez, Gonzalez, Wilson, and Anderson.
The Census Bureau says many of the country's most used last names have stayed the same since the first U.S.
headcount back in 1790, but the last names of people who identified as Latino have been on the rise since 2000.
Most of the fastest-growing last names in the U.S.
were from people who identified as Asian, including Zhang, Liu, Wang, Ahmed, and Gore.
As for first names, Michael tops the list, followed by John, James, David, Robert, William, Mary, Maria, Daniel, and Joseph.