{"id":26864,"date":"2026-10-16T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26864"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:06:11","slug":"khan-will-overtake-smith-as-most-common-english-surname-next-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/khan-will-overtake-smith-as-most-common-english-surname-next-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan Will Overtake Smith as Most Common \u2018English\u2019 Surname Next Year: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheading\">The latest UK government birth statistics and long term trends show Smith won\u2019t be the most common surname in England and Wales for the first time in a millennia by next year, analysis claims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>The surname Smith will be shown to have replaced by Khan as the most common family name for new-born babies in England and Wales in 2027, Britain\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Daily Telegraph\u00a0<\/em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/10\/14\/khan-smith-most-popular-surname\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">states<\/a>. The claim is based on the latest live births name data published by the Office for National Statistics this week, which lists every non-unique surname in England and Wales annually going back to the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/10\/15\/khan-will-overtake-smith-as-most-common-english-surname-next-year-report\/\">breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest UK government birth statistics and long term trends show Smith won\u2019t be the most common surname in England and Wales for the first time in a millennia by next year, analysis claims. The surname Smith will be shown to have replaced by Khan as the most common family name for new-born babies in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/khan-will-overtake-smith-as-most-common-english-surname-next-year-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khan Will Overtake Smith as Most Common \u2018English\u2019 Surname Next Year: Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26865,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions\/26865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}