What are the most common first names for a man or woman?
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The popularity (frequency) distribution of given names typically follows a power law distribution. This frequency distribution commonly occurs among collections of symbols instantiated and used in a similar way, for example newspapers ranked by circulation, movies ranked by box office receipts, Internet web sites ranked by visits.\n\nSince about 1800 in England and Wales and in the U.S., the popularity distribution of given names has been shifting so that the most popular names are losing popularity. For example, in England and Wales, the most popular female and male names given to babies born in 1800 were Mary and John, with 24% of female babies and 22% of male babies receiving those names, respectively.[1] In contrast, the corresponding statistics for in England and Wales in 1994 were Emily and James, with 3% and 4% of names, respectively. Better understanding this change might provide insights into symbolic economics increasingly important with the rapid development of information and communication technologies.\n\nUK and Wales 2005: Jack and Jessica \nAustria 2003: Lukas and Sarah\nChile all time: José and María\nCzeck Republic 2005: Jan and Tereza\nDenmark 2004: Mathias and Emma\nFinland 2005: Juhani (John) and Maria (Mary) \nFrance 2001: Thomas and Léa \nGermany 2004: Alexander and Marie \nIreland 2003: Sean and Emma \nJapan 2002: Shun and Misaki \nNetherlands 2005: Daan and Sanne \nScotland 2004: Lewis and Emma \nSpain (Spanish speaking regions) 2005: Alejandro and Lucía \nSpain (Basque country) 2005: Iker and Ana \nSpain (Catalonia) 2005: Marc Paula \n\nEvery year, the US Social Security's Office of the Chief Actuary publishes a list of the most popular names given at birth for males and females in the US website.\nThere are lists of popular names by year from 1880 through 2004.\nIn 1880, they were John and Mary. In 2004, Jacob and Emily.
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Blitzen\nComet\nCupid\nDancer\nDasher\nDonner\nPrancer\nVixen
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Here's just the first page of the list at the link below\n\n(more than 200 names were found!)\n\nNAME - SEX - ORIGIN - MEANING\n\nVac Female  Indian Well spoken. \nVach Female  Indian Well spoken. \nVachel Male  French small cow \nVaclar Male  Slavic Wreath of glory. \nVacuna Female  Latin Victory. \nVaddon Male  Welsh From Bath. \nVadin Male  Hindu speaker \nVadit Female  Hebrew Rose. \nVaetild Female  Norse Mother of the Skraeling children. Vaetilda Female  Norse Mother of the Skraeling children. \nVafara Female  French Brave. \nVail Male  English Valley \nVairocana Female  Hindi King of the demons. \nVaive atoish Male  NativeAmerican Alights on the cloud (Cheyenne).  \nVaiveahtoish Male  NativeAmerican Alights on the cloud (Cheyenne).  \nVajezatha Male  Biblical Sprinkling the chamber. \nVal Unisex  Latin Power \nVala Female  English chosen \nValari Female  Latin Brave. \nValarie Female  Not available or unknown Form of VALERIE. strong \nValborg Male  Scandinavian mighty mountain \nValborga Female  German Protecting ruler. \nValbotg Male  Swedish Powerful mountain. \nValda Female  Scandinavian spirited warrior \nValdemar Male  Scandinavian famous ruler \n\n***\n\nJust put 'V' in the \n\n"Begins with the letter(s): " box\n\nin the ADVANCED SECTION\n\nThis is the BEST site for finding the meaning of names - or finding names with a certain meaning...\n\nHave a look!
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Because "man" and "woman" are originally of German origin, where plurals are often made by changing the ending to -en. English is a Germanic language, so we still retain some German rules for our spelling, especially of plurals (child > children) "Human," as the other writer indicated, is from Latin, so it follows the "regular" English rule for plurals, which is "add -s".
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Soni / sona\nLala / Majnoon\nhum or tum\n\nare u male or female...then it will b easy to chose the name
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I expect it would have to be a name from the most populated country n the world which is China, I believe.  Therefore names such as John are probably not in the running unless you are referring only to the English speaking and western world.  Some sites say that Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
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My vote goes to Alex. It's classic for a guy and spunky for a girl, whereas Ashley is kind of common and boring for both sexes. (No offense, anyone, I have a good friend named Ashley.)
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woman\ncook\ndo dishes\nbitchy\nnice\nlet\njump\ncrazy
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H.Tubman, S. Truth, H. Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, etc.\n\nthe first names are abbreviated b/c if this is just to get the answers for a school homework project I don't want to help you cheat.  Look up these names, and you should find plenty of info.
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female names.  adalgisa, beata, chiara, clelia, ginevra, lucia, marcia, paola, serena, viviana.\n\nmale names.  abbondio, ernesto, gualtiero, lucan, marco, matteo, nicodemo, ottavio, stefano, vincenzo.
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for a guy I like the names daniel, preston, or elijah. for a girl I think I like Kate, or Rachel
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_popular_family_names#Denmark\n\n and \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_popular_names#_note-denmark
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Although this link refers to Guy as a first name.\n\nhttp://www.babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?n=GUY
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멘시? / Men-shi\n\nMost people adopt a normal Korean name. Mine is 유리/Yuri/Yoori.
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Male-\nGeorge Clooney\nHugh Jackman\nJosh Hartnett\nBoris Kodjo (spelling?)\nJake Gyllenhall\nClive Owen\nJason Stratham\nMatt Damon\nTaye Diggs\nJosh Lucas\n\nFemale-\nSelma Hayak\nHalle Berry\nLucy Liu\nJessica Alba\nCatherine Zeta-Jones\nAshley Judd\nVivica Fox\nNatalie Portman\nJuliet Binoche\nNicole Kidman
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S, Statistically most names start with S.\nS for Satyam,\nS for Shivam\nS for Sundram\nS for Secret\nS for Scary\nS for Social\nS for Simple\nS for Siesta\nS for Software\nS for Sexy\nS for Shivani
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On business in Japan, they usually use their last name.\nIt is very rare for them to call each other by their first names at work.\nBetter to add "san" after their names. "san" means Mr. or Ms. You can use it for both men and women.