英国人的姓氏主要分为四大类：父姓、职业姓、描述性的和本地姓。
British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local.
事实上，超过50%的真正的英国姓氏来源于不同种类的地名，所以地名是姓氏来源四个主要类别中的最后一类。
In fact, over fifty per cent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories.
英国最新调查显示，虽然“史密斯”仍是英国第一大姓，但姓“张”、“辛格”等亚洲姓氏的人数正以惊人的速度增加。
New research has found that while Smith remains Britain's most popular surname, Asian names such as Zhang and Singh are rapidly catching up.
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