Family name

Quality:

Family name - part of a naming scheme for individuals, used in many cultures worldwide. Article “Family name” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4599^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4216^th most popular in all topics.

The 4408^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3787^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4805^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4380^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Family name” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4805^th place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4380^th place).

Since the creation of article “Family name”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3754 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4408^th place).

The article is cited 1266 times in Simple English Wikipedia (363^rd place) and cited 287670 times in all languages (347^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #303 in January 2012
• Global: #665 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #426 in May 2023
• Global: #1274 in July 2010

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Surname		65.3431
2	German (de) Familienname		47.1717
3	Dutch (nl) Familienaam		41.0768
4	Catalan (ca) Cognom		37.9363
5	Chinese (zh) 姓氏		36.4546
6	Basque (eu) Deitura		34.2104
7	Vietnamese (vi) Họ		33.3924
8	Czech (cs) Příjmení		32.4943
9	Spanish (es) Apellido		31.7165
10	Estonian (et) Perekonnanimi		31.5881

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Surname		23 773 156
2	Spanish (es) Apellido		3 639 949
3	German (de) Familienname		3 586 306
4	Russian (ru) Фамилия		2 042 522
5	Portuguese (pt) Sobrenome		1 797 984
6	Italian (it) Cognome		1 253 439
7	Chinese (zh) 姓氏		1 086 553
8	Dutch (nl) Familienaam		778 448
9	Polish (pl) Nazwisko		690 360
10	French (fr) Nom de famille		635 240

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Surname		64 913
2	German (de) Familienname		6 054
3	Russian (ru) Фамилия		5 479
4	Chinese (zh) 姓氏		3 877
5	Spanish (es) Apellido		2 799
6	Portuguese (pt) Sobrenome		2 287
7	Italian (it) Cognome		2 130
8	French (fr) Nom de famille		1 821
9	Vietnamese (vi) Họ		1 460
10	Simple English (simple) Family name		1 350

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Surname		760
2	German (de) Familienname		469
3	Spanish (es) Apellido		406
4	Dutch (nl) Familienaam		267
5	Italian (it) Cognome		206
6	Russian (ru) Фамилия		155
7	Portuguese (pt) Sobrenome		129
8	Polish (pl) Nazwisko		97
9	Chinese (zh) 姓氏		92
10	Finnish (fi) Sukunimi		83

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Surname		14
2	German (de) Familienname		4
3	Russian (ru) Фамилия		3
4	Spanish (es) Apellido		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Sobrenome		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Прізвище		2
7	Catalan (ca) Cognom		1
8	Persian (fa) نام خانوادگی		1
9	Norwegian (no) Slektsnavn		1
10	Simple English (simple) Family name		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information