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Table 1 The 200 most common surnames from the South Asian and Chinese surname lists, and from the general population in Ontario.

From: Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study

South Asian

Chinese

General population

Name

N

Name

N

Name

N

Patel

35,984

Wong

34,567

Smith

91,575

Singh

31,820

Chan

32,692

Brown

57,222

Sharma

10,216

Li

27,608

Lee

49,898

Kaur

7,462

Chen

25,618

Wilson

43,803

Persaud

6,982

Wang

22,548

Martin

38,878

Sandhu

6,229

Liu

18,784

Taylor

35,746

Grewal

6,044

Zhang

18,003

Campbell

34,551

Sidhu

5,862

Lam

15,910

Williams

34,104

Dhaliwal

5,209

Leung

13,696

Thompson

33,810

Dhillon

4,847

Ho

12,830

Jones

32,644

Agarwal, Aggarwal, Ahluwalia, Ahuja, Akhtar, Akhter, Akram, Anand, Arora, Arumugam, Atwal, Aujla, Aulakh, Bains, Bajwa, Baksh, Balachandran, Balasingam, Balasubramaniam, Banerjee, Bansal, Banwait, Bedi, Begum, Beharry, Bhalla, Bhandari, Bhardwaj, Bhatia, Bhatt, Bhatti, Bhavsar, Bhogal, Bhullar, Boodram, Boparai, Brar, Chadha, Chahal, Chand, Chandra, Chaudhary, Chaudhry, Chauhan, Chawla, Cheema, Chohan, Chopra, Choudhry, Choudhury, Chowdhury, Das, Dass, Datta, Deol, Desai, Dhami, Dhanoa, Dhindsa, Dosanjh, Gandhi, Ganesh, Garcha, Ghosh, Ghuman, Gopaul, Gupta, Heer, Hundal, Jaffer, Jafri, Jain, Jassal, Johal, Joshi, Kahlon, Kalra, Kanagaratnam, Kandasamy, Kandiah, Kanji, Kapadia, Kapoor, Karam, Karimi, Kaushal, Khaira, Khanna, Khatri, Khokhar, Kohli, Kumar, Kumarasamy, Ladha, Lakhani, Lal, Lalani, Lall, Mahabir, Mahadeo, Maharaj, Mahendran, Malhi, Malhotra, Mangat, Manji, Manoharan, Maraj, Matharu, Mathur, Mehta, Mistry, Modi, Mohan, Multani, Nadarajah, Naik, Nair, Naraine, Navaratnam, Nijjar, Panchal, Pandher, Pandya, Panesar, Pannu, Parekh, Parikh, Parmar, Parveen, Pathak, Pathan, Pathmanathan, Persad, Prajapati, Prasad, Prashad, Purewal, Puri, Rai, Raja, Rajaratnam, Rajkumar, Ram, Ramcharan, Ramkissoon, Ramnarine, Rampersad, Rampersaud, Ramroop, Randhawa, Rao, Sahota, Saini, Samra, Sangha, Sanghera, Sankar, Sehgal, Sekhon, Selvarajah, Selvaratnam, Sethi, Shanmuganathan, Shergill, Sheth, Shukla, Sinha, Sinnathamby, Sivakumar, Sivasubramaniam, Sodhi, Sohail, Sohal, Sohi, Sood, Sritharan, Subramaniam, Tharmalingam, Thind, Toor, Trahan, Trivedi, Uppal, Varghese, Verma, Virdi, Virk, Vyas, Walia

An, Au, Bai, Cai, Cao, Chang, Chao, Chau, Cheng, Cheong, Cheung, Chiang, Chin, Ching, Chiu, Cho, Chong, Chou, Chow, Choy, Chu, Chua, Chui, Chun, Chung, Cui, Dai, Deng, Ding, Dong, Du, Duong, Eng, Fan, Fang, Feng, Fok, Fong, Fu, Fung, Gao, Gong, Gu, Guan, Guo, Ha, Han, He, Hong, Hou, Hsu, Hu, Hua, Huang, Hui, Hum, Hung, Hwang, Ing, Ip, Jang, Ji, Jia, Jiang, Jin, Kam, Kan, Ko, Kong, Koo, Ku, Kung, Kuo, Kwan, Kwok, Kwon, Kwong, La, Lai, Lao, Lau, Lei, Leong, Liang, Liao, Lin, Ling, Lo, Lu, Lui, Luk, Lum, Luo, Luong, Ma, Mah, Mai, Mak, Man, Mao, Mei, Meng, Mian, Mo, Mok, Monk, Ng, Ngai, Ong, Ou, Pan, Pang, Peng, Phung, Poon, Qi, Qian, Qin, Qiu, Quan, Ren, Seto, Shao, Shen, Shi, Shum, Sin, Situ, Siu, So, Song, Su, Sun, Sung, Szeto, Ta, Tai, Tam, Tan, Tang, Tao, Tian, To, Tom, Tong, Tsai, Tsang, Tse, Tsui, Tu, Tung, Wan, Wei, Wen, Wing, Woo, Wu, Xia, Xiao, Xie, Xu, Xue, Yan, Yang, Yao, Yap, Yau, Ye, Yee, Yeh, Yeung, Yi, Yim, Yin, Yip, Yiu, Yong, Yoon, Yu, Yuan, Yue, Yuen, Yung, Zeng, Zhao, Zheng, Zhong, Zhou, Zhu, Zou

Adams, Ahmed, Alexander, Ali, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Baker, Barnes, Bélanger, Bell, Bennett, Black, Boyd, Bradley, Brooks, Burke, Burns, Butler, Cameron, Carter, Chapman, Choi, Clark, Clarke, Cole, Collins, Cook, Cooper, Cox, Craig, Crawford, Cunningham, Da Silva, Davidson, Davies, Davis, Dawson, Dixon, Douglas, Doyle, Duncan, Dunn, Edwards, Elliott, Ellis, Evans, Ferguson, Fernandes, Ferreira, Fisher, Fleming, Ford, Foster, Fox, Francis, Fraser, Gagnon, Garcia, Gauthier, George, Gibson, Gill, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Gray, Green, Hall, Hamilton, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Harvey, Hassan, Hayes, Henderson, Henry, Hill, Holmes, Howard, Hughes, Hunt, Hunter, Huynh, Jackson, James, Johnson, Johnston, Kelly, Kennedy, Kerr, Khan, Kim, King, Knight, Lalonde, Lawrence, Le, Leblanc, Lewis, Little, Macdonald, Mackenzie, Maclean, Macleod, Mann, Marshall, Mason, Matthews, McDonald, McIntyre, McKay, McKenzie, McLean, McLeod, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Mohamed, Moore, Morgan, Morin, Morris, Morrison, Murphy, Murray, Nelson, Nguyen, O'Brien, Palmer, Park, Parker, Parsons, Patterson, Paul, Payne, Pereira, Perry, Peters, Phillips, Porter, Powell, Price, Reid, Reynolds, Richards, Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Rose, Ross, Roy, Russell, Ryan, Santos, Saunders, Scott, Seguin, Shah, Shaw, Silva, Simpson, Spencer, Stevens, Stevenson, Stewart, Sullivan, Sutherland, Thomas, Thomson, Tran, Tremblay, Turner, Walker, Wallace, Walsh, Ward, Warren, Watson, White, Williamson, Wood, Woods, Wright, Young