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Smith still tops in Sydney - but only just
Jul 19, 2009, 8:16 GMT
Sydney - Smith is still the most common surname in Sydney but the Anglo-Saxon monikers Thompson, Anderson, Walker and Ryan have ceded their places in the top 20 to the Chinese-heritage Chen, Wang, Zhang and Chan.
The latest White Pages telephone directory, released Sunday, also shows Indian surname Singh edging into the top 20 for the first time along with Korean tag Kim.
Lee came second in the naming stakes, with the Vietnamese surname Nguyen shifting Jones from third to fourth place.
A quarter of Australia's 21 million people were born abroad and in Sydney, a city of 4 million, the proportion of foreign-born is higher.
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JASWANTJul 19th, 2009 - 15:52:30
India is shining in Australia. India is a superpower.
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