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What is your country's equivalent of the last name "Smith"? (thelemmy.club)

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I don't mean a direct translation, but rather a common and/or "stereotypical" last name that is generally used as the equivalent of "Smith" in English.

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[–] GoodNews@europe.pub 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Janssens and Peeters in Belgium (Flemish region)

[–] lucg@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Janssen or Jansen (without that final s) is also the default last name in the Netherlands

In the north you find a lot of de Vries (the.. frosty? There's an origin story involving Napoleon that I don't know whether it's correct)

Regarding Peeters, a crush of mine was called Peters, in Dutch Limburg. Besides that I don't know the name so I'd guess it's uncommon here