"have ""Muhammad"" (or variant) as a first name choose not to use it, as it is such a common name. Instead they use another given name. For example, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, Siad Barre, Zia-ul-Haq, Ayub Khan and Nawaz Sharif use their second given name. According to the sixth edition of ""The Columbia Encyclopedia"" (2000), ""Muhammad"" is probably the most common given name [in the world], including variations. It is estimated that more than 150 million men and boys in the world bear the name ""Muhammad"". ""Muhammad"" was the most popular baby boys' name in four regions of England and"
"still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration's list of names given in 2006. In modern times John is the most common name in the United States, born as a first or middle name by 39.93 people per thousand; of these, 72.86% have it as the given name. When the statistics of the name are compared to the population statistics of America, the approximate number of people named John in the USA is 12,328,091 and the number of Johns in the USA is increasing by 104,925 each year. ""John"" was also among the most common"
"which make up 7.9%, 7.4% and 7.1% respectively. Together they number close to 300 million and are easily the most common surnames in the world. In Chinese, the phrase ""third son of Zhang, fourth son of Li"" () is used to say ""just anybody"". In a 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of a random sample of 174,900 persons, with over 500 other names accounting for the remaining 4%. In a different study (1987), which combined data from Taiwan and China (sample size of 570,000 persons), the top 19 names covered 55.6%, and the top"
"Bible. The name first became popular in the English-speaking world after the Protestant Reformation, and it is also a popular Scandinavian name. As a name in its own right, ""Jon"" is fairly uncommon, and peaked in the United States in 1965 at 0.24% of all male babies. It was the 126th most common boy’s name in 1938 at 0.124% of infants. The surname Lindgren comes from Swedish ""lind"" (“linden tree”) and ""gren"" (“branch”), and means “branch of a linden tree”. It is the 13,882nd most common surname in the world, and the 4,211th in the United States. Lindgren was born"
"almost every year since then. The name is, for the most part, found in North America. In 1982, the name was the 7th most common given name amongst African American males, and the 23rd most common name amongst White American males. The name was ranked in the 1990 United States Census as being the 68th most common name amongst males. The Social Security Administration website lists the top 1,000 American baby names for every year since 1879. In the year 1950, ""Brandon"" first reached the top 1,000 male names for babies who were registered for Social Security numbers for births."
"States Census Bureau undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most popular names. This sample consisted of 6.3 million people, and was made up of 5,494 unique first names (4,275 feminine names, and 1,219 masculine names). Within this sample, ""Raven"" was ranked the 1,358th most common feminine name, and did not even rank amongst the 1,219 masculine names. Raven (given name) Raven is a unisex given name in the English language. In the United States of America, the name is more commonly used as a feminine name, and has ranked"
"common surname, being shared by 9.9% of the population. Next are Lĭ (), Zhāng (/) and Liú (/). In the south, Chén (/) is the most common, being shared by 10.6% of the population. Next are Lĭ (李), Huáng (/), Lín () and Zhāng (张/張). Around the major crossing points of the Yangtze River, the most common surname is Lĭ (李), taking up 7.7%, followed by Wáng (王), Zhāng (张/張), Chan/Chén (陈/陳) and Liú (刘/劉). A 1987 study showed over 450 family names in common use in Beijing, but there were fewer than 300 family names in Fujian. A study"
"became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. It was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for females in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular"
"oldest and most common type of surname. They may be a first name such as ""Wilhelm"", a patronymic such as ""Andersen"", a matronymic such as ""Beaton"", or a clan name such as ""O'Brien"". Multiple surnames may be derived from a single given name: e.g. there are thought to be over 90 Italian surnames based on the given name ""Giovanni"". The Icelandic system, formerly used in much of Scandinavia, does not use family names. A person's last name indicates the first name of their father (patronymic) or in some cases mother (matronymic). Many common family names in other Scandinavian countries are"
"father's first name. For example, when a man called ""Karl"" has a daughter called ""Anna"" and a son called ""Magnús"", their full names will typically be ""Anna Karlsdóttir"" (""Karl's daughter"") and ""Magnús Karlsson"" (""Karl's son""). The name is not changed upon marriage. Slavic countries are noted for having masculine and feminine versions for many (but not all) of their names. In most countries the use of a feminine form is obligatory in official documents as well as in other communication, except for foreigners. In some countries only the male form figures in official use (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia,"
"the 693rd most popular name for boys. However the gap has been narrowing and recently the number of baby boys and baby girls named Robin in United States has been roughly similar (as visualized in the chart on the right). In 2014 46% of babies named Robin in United States were boys, which is about 3 times that figure in 1990. There are several common variations, including ""Robyn"", ""Robbin"", ""Robine"", ""Robyne"", ""Robynne"", and ""Robbyn"". Robin has its origin in France and is also a very common surname in France. Robin is occasionally found as a surname in English language-speaking countries."
"160th most common male name, recorded in births, in the Netherlands; there were 67 occurrences of the name recorded that year. The previous year the name ranked 159th, with 73 recorded occurrences. In Sweden, there were 230 males registered in 2009 who had the first name ""Brandon""; of these men, 170 recorded the name as a nickname. In the years spanning 2002 to 2009, the name was not amongst the top 100 male, or female, baby names. In the United Kingdom, the name has risen in popularity since the mid-1990s. In England and Wales, in the year 2008, ""Brandon"" was"
"widely distributed throughout the country, but especially common in Scotland, Cornwall, and Wales. Thomas is the ninth most common surname in the United Kingdom. It is found as a personal name among Christians in India, and in the United States; it is also used as a family name among the Saint Thomas Christian families from Kerala, South India. In the 1990 United States Census, Thomas was the twelfth most common surname, accounting for 0.3% of the population. In France, Thomas (pronounced ) is the third most widespread surname after Martin and Bernard, with over 100,000 people with this name. Thomas"
"Li (surname 李) Li () is the second most common surname in China, behind only Wang. It is one of the most common surnames in the world, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million worldwide. It is the fourth name listed in the Song dynasty classic text ""Hundred Family Surnames"". The name is pronounced as ""Lei"" in Cantonese, but is often spelled as Lee in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and many other overseas Chinese communities. In Macau, it is also spelled as Lei. In Indonesia it is commonly spelled as Lie. The common Korean surname,"
"people have one, two or more given names (first names). One of them (nowadays almost always the first, in the past often the last) is used in daily life (but someone can also choose a usage name that was not given); the others are solely for official documents, such as passport, birth, death and marriage certificates. Thus, one always speaks of ""Jacques Chirac"" and never of ""Jacques René Chirac""; and ""Henri Philippe Pétain"" is always referred to as Philippe Pétain (or Marshal Pétain), because ""Philippe"" was the given name that he used in daily life. Middle names in the English"
"or European names. Daniel, Christopher, Michael, David, James, Joseph, and Matthew were among the most common names for African-American boys in 2013. Using surnames as a first name is increasingly popular in the United States, although the origin of this practice is unclear. In one of her books about Southern culture, Marlyn Schwartz reports that it has long been common for southern families to use family surnames as first names. ""The Baby Name Wizard"" author Laura Wattenberg explains that the practice became popular in the early 20th century as poor immigrants chose names they associated with the sophistication of English"
"for various reasons, this has been outweighed by old names disappearing. The most significant factor affecting the surname frequency is other ethnic groups identifying as Han and adopting Han names. In recent centuries some two-character surnames have often dropped a character. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, moreover, some surnames have been graphically simplified. Although there are thousands of Chinese family names, the 100 most common, which together make up less than 5% of those in existence, are shared by 85% of the population. The three most common surnames in Mainland China are Li, Wang and Zhang,"
"of the Tang dynasty, Li was bestowed upon or adopted by numerous people, including many foreigners, during the period, and became one of the most common Chinese surnames. Li 李 is one of the most common surnames in China and the world, shared by more than 93 million people in China, or about 7.4% of the Chinese population. Worldwide, more than 100 million people bear the surname. It was formerly thought to be the most common surname in China, but a 2013 analysis of the names of 1.33 billion Chinese citizens has concluded that Li is the second most common"
"in Korean; and Ō or Oh in Japanese. Wáng is one of the most common surnames in the world and was listed by the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System as the most common surname in mainland China in April 2007, with 92.88 million bearers and comprising 7.25% of the general population. It was the 6th most common surname in Taiwan in 2005, comprising 4.12% of the general population. Wāng was listed by the NCIIS survey as the 58th most common surname in mainland China and by Yang Xuxian as the 76th most common surname on Taiwan."
"James (name) James is masculine given name, a modern descendant of Iacomus, the Latin form of the Hebrew name Jacob. James is a popular name worldwide, but it is most commonly seen in English-speaking populations. It has several alternative spellings but none of which as common as the original. Diminutives for the name include Jay, Jamie, Jem, Jim, Jimbo, and Jimmy and some of them have become popular as given names in their own right, particularly Jamie. James is one of the most common male names in the English-speaking world. In the United States, James was one of the five"
"Korean diaspora translating numerous surnames also romanized as Li, particularly the one deriving from the Chinese word for ""plum"" (, ""Lǐ""; , ""Lee""; , ""Rhee""; Vietnamese</small> , quốc ngữ Lê, Lý or Lí) which is among the most common surnames in the world. In America, Lee is the most common surname for Chinese and Korean Americans and the second-most-common surname for Asian and Pacific Islanders, behind the Vietnamese Nguyen. Similarly, Lee is the third-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans. Originating from Norway as ""Lie"", this surname was altered when it arrived in the Americas in the late 1800s to fit the"
"Records"" estimated that Zhang was the most common surname in the world, but no comprehensive information from China was available at the time and more recent editions have omitted the claim. The MPS survey revealed that the top 3 surnames in China have a combined population larger than Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous country. The top 10 surnames each have populations greater than 20 million; the top 22 have more than 10 million. The top 100 surnames cover 84.77% of China's population. Names in Taiwanboth among the immigrant ethnic Chinese and Taiwanese aboriginesare similar to those in southeast China but differ"
"days on the 12th day of each month of the Coptic calendar. Michael (and its variants) is one of the most common given names for men in the world. In the United States, Michael was the most popular name of the 20th century, ranking No. 1 from 1954 to 1998 (with the exception of 1960, when it was second to David). It was among the top three most popular names for each year since 1953, only falling out of the top five in 2011 for the first time since 1949. In 2014, Michael was the 20th most popular name in"
"René René (""born again"" or ""reborn"" in French) is a common first name in both French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and Dutch-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminine form). In some non-Francophone countries, however, there exists the habit of giving the name René (sometimes spelled without an accent) to girls as well as boys. In addition, both forms are used as surnames (family names). René as a first name given to boys in the United States reached its peaks in popularity in 1969 and 1983 when it ranked 256th."
"Lucius (praenomen) Lucius (; ) is a Latin ""praenomen"", or personal name, which was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. The feminine form is ""Lucia"" (; ). The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic ""gentes Lucia"" and """", as well as the ""cognomen"" ""Lucullus"". It was regularly abbreviated L. Throughout Roman history, Lucius was the most common praenomen, used slightly more than ""Gaius"" and somewhat more than ""Marcus"". Although a number of prominent families rarely or never used it, it was amongst the most frequently given names in"
"to erode the previous sociological uses of the Chinese surnames. According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on 24 April 2007, the ten most common surnames in mainland China are Wang (王), Li (李), Zhang (张), Liu (刘), Chen (陈), Yang (杨), Huang (黄), Zhao (赵), Wu (吴), and Zhou (周). The same names were also found (in slightly different orders) by a fairly comprehensive survey of 296 million people in 2006, and by the 1982 census. A commonly cited fact from the 1990 edition of the ""Guinness Book of World"
"(in Inverness-shire, Scotland); with 26 of the name recorded, equalling 1.0136% of the population there. In Australia, the surname is ranked 4,770th most common name; with 331 recorded equalling 0.002% of the total population. The surname was ranked as the 27,425th most common surname in the 1990 United States Census; accounting for less than 0.001% of the population. It was ranked 24,115th most common surname in the 2000 United States Census; with 976 recorded. Of this number, 96.21% were recorded as being (non-Hispanic) white; 1.02% (non-Hispanic) black; 0.92% (non Hispanic) of two or more races; 1.43% Hispanic origin. Currently worldwide,"
"with its historic Catholic popularity, it has also been popular among Protestants due to Martin Luther. In addition, African American children are often given the name in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Additionally, many Black Americans have the name Martin as a family name. Also, Martin is a popular first name chosen by Jews. The name is a shorter version of the Latin name Martinus. Martin was the sixteenth most frequently reported surname in the 1990 United States Census, accounting for 0.27% of the population. The name is often read Martin (with `on the i) in most slavic contries."
"Li (surname) Li is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization (spelled Lí, Lǐ, or Lì when pinyin tone diacritics are used) of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Li 李 is by far the most common among them, shared by 93 million people in China, and more than 100 million worldwide. It is the second most common Chinese surname behind Wang and the most common surname in Canada . Languages using the Latin alphabet do not distinguish among the different Chinese surnames, rendering them all as Li. In the United States, Li is the 14th"
"English and Old High German words being ""Winter"" and ""Wintar"". Vinther is the 92,287th most common surname in the world. It is most prevalent in Denmark and the highest density is in the Faroe Islands. Nowadays, it is most popular in Europe and the United States. Vinther Vinther (also spelled Winther) is a common Anglo-Germanic surname dating back to the 13th century. The name developed from the Anglo-French word ""Vintner"", meaning someone who is involved with winemaking. The surname is used worldwide, but is mainly found in Europe and the United States. The surname Vinther dates back to 1221 England"
"male, but is now more commonly used as a feminine name in the United States. It was the 20th most popular name given to girls born in the United States in 2014. The variants ""Aubree"" and ""Aubrie"" were the 61st most and 428th most popular given names for girls respectively. It was last ranked among the top 1,000 most common names for boys in the United States in 2002. It was the 479th most common name for all males in the United States in the 1990 census. Aubrey Aubrey is an English given name. The name is a Norman French"
"the official name. Women traditionally adopted their husband's name upon marriage and would occasionally retain their maiden name by hyphenation, in a so-called ""Doppelname"", e.g. ""Else Lasker-Schüler"". Recent legislation motivated by gender equality now allows a married couple to choose the surname they want to use, including an option for men to keep their birthname hyphenated to the common family name in the same way. It is also possible for the spouses to do without a common surname altogether and to keep their birthnames. The most common given names are either Biblical (""Christian"", derived from names of Biblical characters or"
"most popular name in 2002. In 2001, it was the 18th most common name. From 1999 to 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy. In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth-most common name given to baby boys, and it was third in 1964. In Scotland, Andrew was the most popular name given to baby boys in 1993, with 1,099 boys given the name that year. In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second-most common name given to boys of the 1990s. The eleventh most common baby name in"