wat is the most common first and last name on earth?
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I would say a Chinese name since there are more Chinese people than anglophones..and lots of them do have the same surname\n\nWong ? Tan ? Ho ? Chen ? Goh ?\n\nFirst name....I don't know. Lots of Tom, John, Bill in anglophone countries..\n\nPS: Pure Star got it ! CHANG then...\n\n(look outside your borders eh eh ..)
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you can check it here http://fun.littlegeniusindia.com/Numero.asp\n\njust put "M" in Middle Name box and another "Mukunthan" Last Name box and select Starting Alphabet as "M". you can see all first names harmonious with your DOB
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< Smith is the number one surname in the United States:\nFor other countries check the site below.                           \n\n(Numbers in parentheses are percentage of population with that name.)\n1.Smith (1.006%) \n2.Johnson (0.810%) \n3.Williams (0.699%) \n4.Jones (0.621%) \n5.Brown (0.621%) \n6.Davis (0.580%) \n7.Miller (0.424%) \n8.Wilson (0.339%) \n9.Moore (0.312%) \n10.Taylor (0.311%) \n11.Anderson (0.311%) \n12.Thomas (0.311%) \n13.Jackson (0.310%) \n14.White (0.279%) \n15.Harris (0.275%) \n16.Martin (0.273%) \n17.Thompson (0.269%) \n18.Garcia (0.254%) \n19.Martinez (0.234%) \n20.Robinson (0.233%)\nThe distribution of family names in the U.S. reflects the history of immigration into the country. Many immigrants from non English speaking countries adopted English family names. Good examples of this are the popular Swedish name Johansson which was frequently changed to Johnson, and the German M?/span> changed to Miller. Some very common Swedish names were so similar that only a minor change of spelling was necessary, such as Andersson and Jonsson. This is why these names are much more common in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom.
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Try google search for names and their meanings. :o)
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1st name is originally Roman\nmiddle name is Greek in origin\nfamily name is Scots in origin\n\nnever thought about liking it or not, so I suppose i must
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as a first or last name?
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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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Best way to choose a name is by picking out a name that means something to you all.\n\nWe named our baby girl Aerianna (Aeriona - is how you'd say it) \n\nWe love Celtic names too.. both our son's have them.. goes with the Irish Last name we have.\n\nHere is a site that you may like to check out
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I agree with that other person, the shortest name would probably be Ed. As for the longest one, the longest one I found (and there are actually people named this ) was Chrysanthemum, and the second longest I found was Artemisiaart
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Cornell University: Ask an Astronomer \nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=451 \n\n"The true origin of the word Earth is shrouded in history and so any individual responsible for it cannot be found.\n\nThere are actually two schools of thought as to the origin of the word Earth. One was the already mentioned varitaion of the Germanic 'ertho'. The other is that it originated from the Indo-European "er", the verb form of which is 'ar', meaning 'to plough'.\n\nThe later, however, is not generally considered as likely due to the Germanic version contains more of the same letters and so indicates a natural progression. However, it would still be likely that the Germanic word would itself be derived from the Indo-European."\n\nIn a strictly technical sense, our planet is called "Earth" because the International Astronomical Union says so:\n\n"The official names of planets and their moons are governed by an organization called the International Astronomical Union (IAU)... The IAU is the internationally recognized authority for assigning names to celestial bodies and any surface features on them.\n\nThe IAU recognizes that astronomy is an old science and many of its names come from long-standing traditions and/or are founded in history. For many of the names of the objects in the solar system, this is especially so. Most of the objects in our solar system received names long ago based on Greek or Roman mythology. The IAU has therefore adopted this tradition in its rules for naming certain types\nof objects in the solar system... Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, many other names for our planet in other languages."\n\nhttp://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question48.html\n\nThe word for 'Earth' is not the same in all of Earth's languages. Here are a few examples:\n\n"Afrikaans: aarde\n Danish: verden\n Finnish: maa\n French: mondiale\n German: Erde\n Indonesian: dunia\n Japanese: tsuchi, yochi, chi, a-su, daichi, koudo\n Russian: çåìë\n Swahili: kiwanja\n Swedish: mull"\n\nThe Straight Dope Archives: Do other languages call Earth "Earth"?\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mearth.html\n\n"Some other names for 'Earth' are; \n\n Aztec: Coatlicue \n Chinese: Hou ji \n Danish: Jorden \n Dutch: Aarde \n Egyptian: Geb \n Estonian: Maa \n French: Terre \n German: Erde \n Greek: Gaea \n Hebrew: HaOlam \n Incan: Pachamama \n Italian: Terra \n Japanese: Chikyuu \n Latin: Terra \n Maltese: Dinja \n Maori: Papa \n Mayan: Bacabs \n Norse: Midgard \n Norwegian: Jorden \n Polish: Ziemia \n Portuguese: Terra \n Russian: Zemlya \n Serbo-Croatian: Zemlja \n Slovene: Zemlja \n Spanish: Tierra \n Sumerian: Enlil \n Icelandic: Jör<eth>in \n\nThe Earth has often been personified as a deity, often a goddess; Gaea and Mother Earth. In Norse mythology, Earth was the son of Nott and Annar."\n\nInternet Encyclopedia: Earth\nhttp://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/wiki.phtml?title=Earth\n\n"earth - O.E. eorðe 'ground, soil, dry land,' also used (along with middangeard) for 'the (material) world' (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from P.Gmc. *ertho (cf. O.N. jörð, M.Du. eerde, O.H.G. erda, Goth. airþa), from PIE base *er-. The earth considered as\na planet was so called from c.1400. Earthy in the fig. sense of 'coarse, unrefined' is from 1594. Earthworm first attested 1591.\nEarthwork is from 1633. Earthlight apparently coined 1833 by British astronomer John Herschel."\n\nOnline Etymology Dictionary\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/e1etym.htm\n\n"The name of our planet is the Earth. The name of our moon is the Moon. The name of our solar system is the Solar System.\n\nNotice that I capitalize them, because when used as names, they are
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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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Its only called "Earth" by a small minority of people on the planet-those who speak English.  Our planet has as many names as there are languages, and there are hundreds of languages.
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First person to be put on the Earth Adam \nFirst person to give birth to a baby Eve\nFirst baby born Cain
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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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Why do the others have their given name first? :)\nI have a theory... Many family names come from the place where you live. In English, for example, you say Richard of York. In Hungarian because of the grammar you say Yorki Richard. This can be a reason.
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In many cases last names derived from what people did for a living. Imagine a village where several men named "John" live. In conversation, you might distinguish between one John and all the others by saying "John The Blacksmith", or "John The Baker". Eventually, human nature being what it is, people would drop the "The", and you'd be left with "John Blacksmith" and "John Baker".\n\nAnother way last names came into being was as a method of indicating lineage or parentage. "John MacDonald", in Scotland, used to literally mean "John, son of Donald."
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My first and last names are fairly common, 4,160,000 website matches