Ofc Mohammed is the most common name but thats a name common within the muslim community. I have noticed the name Sarah in every country, regardless of race or religion. Or it might be an abrahamic religion thing but thats most of the world atleast.

I suspect other Abrahamic names might make the cut.

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    The most common first name in the world is Maria, and the most common last name in the world is Wang. Erfo the most common name in the world is Maria Wang.

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    Probably any form of Maria, which is for both male/female. There are many documented usages of the name BCE.

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    Hard to say. Like, do “Ivan”, “Giovanni” and “John” count as the same, or different names? What about Latin “Amanda” (to be loved) vs. Japanese 愛/Ai (love)? How do we even count this?

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      Ivan, Giovanni, John, Jean, Shaun, Sean, Shane, Zane, Ian, Jan, Yves, Juan, Johannes, Yohan, and more…

      The name means “gift”. Pretty universal.

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        Everyone is saying it means “gift” but Wikipedia (as well as an embroidery my grandma gave me when I was young!) says it comes from Yohanan/Johanan יוֹחָנָן‎ (Yôḥānān), which means “YHWH (Yahweh/God) is gracious”, with gracious being used in the form of “merciful” or “forgiving”.

        Which can kind of mean the same thing but is also different enough. Johnathan, however, does mean “God has given”.

        TIL that John and Johnathan are not different versions of the same name!

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        Ironically, all the variations you mentioned do not have the gift part, except for the letter ‘n’ :)

        They all originate from Johnathan, which in Hebrew means, literally “God gave”, the “Joh” part meaning “God”, and “Nathan” meaning “gave”.

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        Despite how many forms it takes, it isn’t very common in the muslim world or asia which make up for a vast proportion of the world. So many of the names variations are within Europe.

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            Theodore, Mateo, matthew, jonathan, jesse, gia, Anjali, Doris. Theres like 30 more, I didnt notice a super common asian name, anjali is fairly common in india. But yeah name meaning gift is probably up there.

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      Names with the same meaning is an interesting one. Id say that counts, I hadnt even thought about that!

      I’d also allow variations of the name, John is Yuhanna in arabic.

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    Joseph/ Yousuf, Daniel/ Danyal. Again anything universal is Abrahamic just bc of what high proportion of the world is Christian/ Muslim/ Jew.

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        I find that Ana beats out Maria only because only the english spell it/pronounce it different (Hanna). Everyone else does Ana.

        But Mary has an absurd higher usage.

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    I would say Astro.

    Okay fine, real answer. According to this, the most common female name in the world is Maria and the most common male name is Mohammed. You can also find a breakdown by continent and country, here.

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      I think you straight up ignored OP’s explanation of their question. OP explicitly addressed why Mohammad is not “the most universal name” by his meaning.

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        Then I guess I don’t understand the question? Was it not what the most common name in the world is? I don’t have many sources to go off of, but according to the site I posted, Mohammed is the most common male name in Africa, Asia and the most common in the world. If it’s the most common name in the world, it would make sense that it also happens to be the most common in the muslim community and possibly other communities as well.

        If this was not the question, then what was?

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          OP is kind of asking which names are common in the largest variety of places. Is there a name that’s kinda- common on every continent?

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            Okay, I think I understand now. Looking at the names for Africa, Americas, Europe and Oceania, the names David and Maria seem to consistently be in the top 20. I’m intentionally excluding Asia, because their names seem to be wildly different compared to everywhere else.

            Does this answer the question better?

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              yeah, you got it. obviously, since we’re trying to balance multiple different factors, it’s not necessarily a “correct” response, but it addresses the question directly and well.

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    I don’t know about first names, but as for middle names, I’ve noticed a 75% chance your middle name will be James if you’re a guy and Marie if you’re a woman. I also attended school somewhere where, I kid you not, every shop owner and public service manager was named either John or Julie.