Millions of people living on the African continent share surnames, just like in other continents in the world. Africa is a very heterogeneous continent; it is not a country, as some Westerners think.

It's also the most popular type of surname in the country today: structure-wise, surnames with the -ski suffix (and the cognate -cki and -dzki) comprise some 35% of the 1000 most popular Polish names.

Article continues below Meanwhile, according to the National Records of Scotland, Brown was the second-most common last name in the country last year. The report found that there were 1,289 ...