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i thought here will islamik names but i dint meet , whyyyyyyy i wanted select or know what name is more popul. why u dint fill it??????/ selene
I see the value in creating these articles, but I also think there are a few issues with the titles of these pages:
Anyway, good job on making this set of pages. -- VV 23:28, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I'd like to see a source cited. Who collected this information? The US census bureau? -- Delirium 22:41, Oct 26, 2003 (UTC)
VANDALISM: ALL MOST POPULAR FEMALE NAMES IN EUROPE ARE SET TO GABRIELLE WHICH IS DEFINITLY NOT TRUE!!!
As many people want this kept (see the October section of Talk:Most popular names/Delete), a new title should be decided. Any objections to List of most popular names in the United States? The only problem is that it makes the subpages have quite long titles as they would be things like List of most popular names in the United States in the 1890s. Angela 21:13, Nov 1, 2003 (UTC)
I probably don't know very much about naming pages, but how about something like Most popular American names? That would keep the links to a length of about Most popular American names in the 1920s. Anyway, I have begun to continue work on the lists and I hope to be finished within the next week or so. For those of you who are wondering, I get all of the information from the links at this site. MattSal 21:40, Nov 2, 2003 (UTC)
I see your point. Anyways, I'm currently up to the 1950's and hope to finish the 1970's by the end of today. I'll save the last parts for this weekend. When I'm done, we can go about renaming and/or moving the article. MattSal 22:52, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)
One thing that's occurred to me is that the lists of names could be greatly compressed; those bulleted lists of ten names could probably be made into one line each. Then, the proliferation of decade lists would not even be necessary. Of course, this retooling would require considerable effort on someone's part. -- VV 22:18, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Sorry guys. I got lazy that one weekend. This time I will finish the pages. Then we or I can move them. Sorry. MattSal 21:44, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
This should be at something titled List of and specify that it is given names, I think, because that is what it is. List of most popular given names in the United States and List of most popular American given names are both fine, though the first is probably best because it eliminates any controversy about the meaning of American. The length of the subpages doesn't really matter -- aside from being a minor inconvenience for linking, of which there will not be much, I'd imagine. Tuf-Kat 21:51, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
I have added names in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Can I decapitalize this to most popular names. The title sounds like a book title. -- Taku 22:11, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)~
I just found an article. List of most popular family names. This article can and should be merged with it without much trouble. And as told above, they are brilliant lists. They are not encyclopedic yet but we can work on. -- Taku 22:23, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
This page is now a mishmosh. Although its title indicates that it's refering to family names, the links to the United States articles are to given names. RickK 21:30, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Is this a page for first-names, considering that there's another page for family names ? And why's the page made up of only Japanese names, with links to US ones ? Jay 19:12, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
From the article:
The US Social Security agency did not exist in the 1880s. Is there another source we are missing?
func
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Er, sorry. Obviously, they would have had information on people going back that far. Nevermind. func (talk) 01:32, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone have information on how to approach naming your business? I'm looking to differentiate myself. The business is managed care contracting services.
Any reason why the microprint changes some countries (ie Canada) from "Most Popular Names" to "Most Popular Baby Names"? Men in Canada aren't called Ethan, Joshua or Dylan, we're all Doug, Mike, Gord, Gordon or Gordie - I'm reluctant to change it without knowing the rational, but it certainly reads like these are the most popular names for me, unless you pull out your magnifying glass for the 2 point disclaimer. Seems a "baby names of the last year" list likely belongs somewhere else. WilyD 15:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Just to give an example as to how misleading the lists are: The name 'Ecrin' shown as the second most common female name in Turkey is not among the top 2472 most common names in Turkey. Ref: http://www.ismididikle.com/showisim.php?isim=ecrin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.255.145.142 ( talk) 16:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
There's a (probably fairly recent) list of the most popular names on the Benesse website at < http://women.benesse.ne.jp/hakase/sitemap/namae.html>.
The lists are given as fairly low-rez gifs, making it impossible to cut and paste and difficult even to read. Tweeq 15:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The list of Brazilian names is probably wrong, because it has some names that have a spelling that is certainly not brazilian.
For example, "Julian" is definitely not a name common in Brazil. It could refer to "Juliano". Also "Estevan" sounds more like a Spanish name. In Brazil the most common form could be perhaps "Estevão".
Concerning female names, "Beatrice" is certainly very rare. The usual spelling would be "Beatriz".
Considering that there is no source, I believe the list there should be deleted, or replaced by some list that comes from a citable source.
-- Ekalin 23:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Would it not perhaps be useful, given that choice of name is very much tied in with language and culture (despite the homogenising effect of English), to add tables listing the most popular names within the the principal language groupings (ie. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc)? Trying to compare trends between (for example) Scotland, England, Australia, NZ, and Canada is pretty difficult with the current set-up. This is arguably of more use than only listing nations within continental groups - the most popular names in the UK have little to do with those of France, which have little to do with those of Lithuania, etc, etc.
Any thoughts?
Xdamr talk 01:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I would think that most people who look up these lists would expect to find the most common given names (first names) of people currently living in a particular country. These lists are only the most common names given to people born in 2005 or whatever year that particular list pertains to. People born in different years vastly outnumber these newborns, and most of them tend to have different names, or names in different proportions. Therefore, I propose that the name of this article be "Most popular given names for people born in year 200x". Furthermore, there should be another article with lists of the most common given names which includes people who are older than newborns or one-year-olds (the vast majority of people alive). Backspace 01:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't see how this page belongs there as an appendix.. It's more than just a listing of words, and these names are related by fast-changing popularity - not anything linguistic. Eug 00:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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During the recent AfD discussion for this article, I made the observation that it might be useful to convert the list from a single, dynamic, continually-updated list into a set of static lists by year, such as List of most popular given names in 2006, List of most popular given names in 2007, and so forth, as is already being done for the lists of the United States. This way, results from previous years would not need to be lost whenever a new publication is released. Any comments? Ayla 09:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
This section should be removed. There are no national statistics for names since the early 90's. While some names in the list are undisputably common (Maria, Ana, João), most of them are random names put there due to the personal observations of the person who made the list. Fábio, for instance, is not that common. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.154.46.59 ( talk) 20:23, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
There is no way that this list can be right. Shaniqua is not a very popular name. Not outside the black community, anyway, which doesn't seem large enough to skew the namings that much. I think that may just be a joke. 97.84.218.95 ( talk) 03:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Are you sure about it being the third most-given name in Germany? I'm german and I never even SAW (or heard) this name before —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.44.64.199 ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Seriously isn't wikipedia better than having information sourced from a forum, especially when the person who claims the stats in from the US —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.121.151.142 ( talk) 19:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 04:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
In the United States category, the most common given names has a list of Asian/Pacific Islander American names and Indian names. Is that supposed to mean Native American? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.224.134 ( talk) 23:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
The keys for a few entries have been swapped back and forth between Israel and Palestine. Please can someone determine from the given reference precisely what area its data refers to? If it is for the state of Israel, let's say so in a neutral way and not mention Palestine. If the data is specifically for West Bank, East Jerusalem and/or the Gaza strip, let's explain the exact scope and form a consensus on a name for that area which is unlikely to offend any reasonable person. Can anyone interpret the Reference as a first step? Certes ( talk) 10:30, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Could we maybe stop calling them "Jewish boys" and "Muslim boys" and "Christian boys" and "Druze boys?" They are infants, not holders of religious opinion. There is very little debate between three-month old "adherents" of different religions.
I know one needs a certain amount of economy of space in a table like that, but in reality they are "Children of Jewish Parents," "Children of Muslim Parents," etc.
68.148.129.210 ( talk) 04:33, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
It looks like someone's thrown in random Indian words ("curry") and nonsense ("Ghandi's mom") for common Indian male names. I tried to find a reliable source for common male names to replace the offending text but haven't found anything so far. Could we just remove India from the list for now? -- Vpdath ( talk) 21:47, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
The article is currently focused on what names happen to be popular right now. While this is not entirely without encyclopedic value, that value is limited. Further, it is a maintenance nightmare.
A focus on what names are popular in the overall (as opposed to newly born) population would be of considerably greater value, and I very, very strongly suggest that the page is re-focused to provide exactly that.
(Similar critiques are voiced by others in some above entries.)
Additionally, a short estimated list of the most popular names world-wide would be of greater value than the listing for any individual country. (Notably, I have seen such lists on several occasions over the years, so original research would likely be unnecessary---notwithstanding that the results would only be rough approximations.) Michael Eriksson ( talk) 22:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
There should be just ten names per line. See for example the lines of the Faroe Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_most_popular_given_names&oldid=361530566. Xqsd
Wrong:
Correct:
See http://a1763.g.akamai.net/f/1763/9180/1h/women.benesse.ne.jp/general/event/rank2009/03_02_rank_01.gif In the blue section there is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 10. A repeated name is a tie, but it occupies a slot (in the picture a line, in the article a column). When the tenth place is a tie, then more that ten names may appear. Xqsd ( talk) 19:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
If the article is meant to list the ten most popular names in each country, then it should list the ten most popular names. For the Faroes you have probably named the first names of everyone born on the islands in a particular year! Oh and what is all the "I won't agree to do this" thing here - no one owns the page, so if the consensus is that the system used in compiling the data should change, then it should change. 109.94.137.1 ( talk) 10:39, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
(See prior discussion above.) I've been repeatedly removing this absurd list of names (and already mentioned it once above on this talk page), giving a reason in the edit summary each time, and User:Bookworm857158367, who seems to have some WP:OWNership issues, keeps re-adding them with no valid reason. Edit-warring without discussion (and without any valid reasons) is not the way to improve Wikipedia. Shreevatsa ( talk) 20:47, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I will reiterate my reasons, although I am annoyed at having to do so:
Any single one of these reasons alone would disqualify having it in the article. That it is repeatedly reinserted despite all these reasons makes me wonder about the sanity of the process here. Shreevatsa ( talk) 20:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I hate to nit pick, but the Korean names in the article use inconsistent semi-phonetic Romanisation.Perhaps accurate in terms of what the children are likely to use, perhaps it is better to use the "official"/recommended Romanisation. Below are the Revised Romanisation versions of the names.
Boys
Girls
Cashie ( talk) 05:58, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Why Azerbaijani names in Asia list, while Armenia and Georgia in Europe?-- NovaSkola ( talk) 16:24, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I think this is not where it should be. But regardless of whether it is consistent or not to put this statistic, the statistic is in itself not right. I checked the source and it is an amateur website. There is tons of reasons why this statistic is impossible to get such as the fact that France's government does not collect statistic on minorities but also because how do you tell if someone is Muslim or not just by looking at records. I know a lot of French Muslims who have names like Julien, etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anon1794 ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
The whole list is very scrappy. Some countries seem to have entries for multiple ethnic groupings, while others aren't included at all. Would it not be more appropriate to have a single entry for each country based on the overall most popular names for girls and boys, and then, if a country has multiple other sources available, either include these in seperate tables at the end of this article, or split them out into individual country lists? 109.94.137.1 ( talk) 11:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
By having the statistics, shouldn't be hard for a bot to perhaps unify the list... When you search for "List of most popular given names" you want the most popular, period. Not the most popular on some arbitrarily (and not undisputed) defined regions (e.g. continents: /info/en/?search=Continent#Number_of_continents)... Sure, this list (as is) may be useful for some, but it's not what the title suggests. Also, there are different lists in the 'Category: Lists of popular names' for different regions, so when I come at the article that doesn't specify regions, I'm looking for the overall list. Just my humble opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.123.131.76 ( talk) 03:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
The name Evangelos under the Greek famous names linked to:
which is an article about a certain "Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassio" which does not say anything about the name. Sadly, there is no disambiguation or given name for "Evangelos" on wikipedia, despite there being quite a few articles for people named Evangelos. The best I could do is have it link to the Vangelis disambiguation page, because at least there it showed a little about the name and not a link to a single person. 75.73.114.111 ( talk) 05:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I’m Andrew Clark and I work at the Office for National Statistics in the UK.
We publish lots of infographics and I wonder if these ones would be of interest for List_of_most_popular_given_names
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_Names_Top_100_in_England_and_Wales,_2012.png
FYI, the full gallery, updated weekly, is here < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Content_created_by_the_Office_for_National_Statistics>
All the best
Andrew Clark (smanders1982) 10 Dec 2013
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I removed unofficial names, as it is speculation and rumours. The data needs to have source.-- Xoncha ( talk) 05:14, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
I am quite sure that the data that is listed for Algeria is the result of a misunderstanding:
The source given goes to the Spanish statistics office, which publishes data tables like in this Excel sheet where one can find data, among other, about Algerians living in Spain, not data about people in Algeria.
I tried to find genuine data about Algeria itself and failed. The last census was 2008, not 2010, and the Algerian statistics office does not seem to publish data about given names resulting from this census.
I propose to simply delete the Algeria data.
The data given for Mali and probably for Equatorial Guinea as well seem to come from the same Spanish source and thus seem invalid in the same way to me. Here I did not yet try to find alternative sources about those countries, however. Rbrunner7 ( talk) 18:47, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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There is an ongoing disagreement here over whether a particular name should link to the article on the English form of the name or to the article on the specific name. I think it would make more sense to have one main article on a name that lists all the varizants instead of multiple articles on every single foreign variant. Does anyone else care to weigh in? Bookworm857158367 ( talk) 00:12, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
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Can someone check that? It links to Abbas ibn Ali with the link name AbulFazl. That doesn't seem to make sense, but has been in the article for months. -- mfb ( talk) 16:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
China section looks weird, with the list of common names all fit in one cell for place #1, which breaks the table, and doesn't make any sense. I removed cell borders there, and it looked much better. But then it was reverted by Bookworm857158367. Is it some automatic revert by the bot? Clearly if a person looked at it, they would see that it was better after my edit. Stansult ( talk) 09:36, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
I don't know why people keep changing the names. Armenia is considered part of West Asia. I'm not sure about the consensus behind other countries like Georgia or Cyprus, but the Wikipedia article for Armenia, backed up by sources clearly states this: "Located in Western Asia". The page for their own ethnic group even states: Armenians are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia. I know they're sometimes described as being a "transcontinental" country (?), but still. They're generally considered part of (West) Asia or even the Middle East. They're even included in the various lists pertaining to Asian countries. Perhaps we could add a color code to signify that a certain country is technically transcontinental, but generally considered to be part of one continent, like how Russia is technically mostly in Asia, but most people would think of them as being part of Eastern Europe? IDK. Clear Looking Glass ( talk) 03:30, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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i thought here will islamik names but i dint meet , whyyyyyyy i wanted select or know what name is more popul. why u dint fill it??????/ selene
I see the value in creating these articles, but I also think there are a few issues with the titles of these pages:
Anyway, good job on making this set of pages. -- VV 23:28, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I'd like to see a source cited. Who collected this information? The US census bureau? -- Delirium 22:41, Oct 26, 2003 (UTC)
VANDALISM: ALL MOST POPULAR FEMALE NAMES IN EUROPE ARE SET TO GABRIELLE WHICH IS DEFINITLY NOT TRUE!!!
As many people want this kept (see the October section of Talk:Most popular names/Delete), a new title should be decided. Any objections to List of most popular names in the United States? The only problem is that it makes the subpages have quite long titles as they would be things like List of most popular names in the United States in the 1890s. Angela 21:13, Nov 1, 2003 (UTC)
I probably don't know very much about naming pages, but how about something like Most popular American names? That would keep the links to a length of about Most popular American names in the 1920s. Anyway, I have begun to continue work on the lists and I hope to be finished within the next week or so. For those of you who are wondering, I get all of the information from the links at this site. MattSal 21:40, Nov 2, 2003 (UTC)
I see your point. Anyways, I'm currently up to the 1950's and hope to finish the 1970's by the end of today. I'll save the last parts for this weekend. When I'm done, we can go about renaming and/or moving the article. MattSal 22:52, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)
One thing that's occurred to me is that the lists of names could be greatly compressed; those bulleted lists of ten names could probably be made into one line each. Then, the proliferation of decade lists would not even be necessary. Of course, this retooling would require considerable effort on someone's part. -- VV 22:18, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Sorry guys. I got lazy that one weekend. This time I will finish the pages. Then we or I can move them. Sorry. MattSal 21:44, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
This should be at something titled List of and specify that it is given names, I think, because that is what it is. List of most popular given names in the United States and List of most popular American given names are both fine, though the first is probably best because it eliminates any controversy about the meaning of American. The length of the subpages doesn't really matter -- aside from being a minor inconvenience for linking, of which there will not be much, I'd imagine. Tuf-Kat 21:51, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
I have added names in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Can I decapitalize this to most popular names. The title sounds like a book title. -- Taku 22:11, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)~
I just found an article. List of most popular family names. This article can and should be merged with it without much trouble. And as told above, they are brilliant lists. They are not encyclopedic yet but we can work on. -- Taku 22:23, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
This page is now a mishmosh. Although its title indicates that it's refering to family names, the links to the United States articles are to given names. RickK 21:30, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Is this a page for first-names, considering that there's another page for family names ? And why's the page made up of only Japanese names, with links to US ones ? Jay 19:12, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
From the article:
The US Social Security agency did not exist in the 1880s. Is there another source we are missing?
func
(talk) 01:28, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Er, sorry. Obviously, they would have had information on people going back that far. Nevermind. func (talk) 01:32, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone have information on how to approach naming your business? I'm looking to differentiate myself. The business is managed care contracting services.
Any reason why the microprint changes some countries (ie Canada) from "Most Popular Names" to "Most Popular Baby Names"? Men in Canada aren't called Ethan, Joshua or Dylan, we're all Doug, Mike, Gord, Gordon or Gordie - I'm reluctant to change it without knowing the rational, but it certainly reads like these are the most popular names for me, unless you pull out your magnifying glass for the 2 point disclaimer. Seems a "baby names of the last year" list likely belongs somewhere else. WilyD 15:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Just to give an example as to how misleading the lists are: The name 'Ecrin' shown as the second most common female name in Turkey is not among the top 2472 most common names in Turkey. Ref: http://www.ismididikle.com/showisim.php?isim=ecrin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.255.145.142 ( talk) 16:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
There's a (probably fairly recent) list of the most popular names on the Benesse website at < http://women.benesse.ne.jp/hakase/sitemap/namae.html>.
The lists are given as fairly low-rez gifs, making it impossible to cut and paste and difficult even to read. Tweeq 15:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The list of Brazilian names is probably wrong, because it has some names that have a spelling that is certainly not brazilian.
For example, "Julian" is definitely not a name common in Brazil. It could refer to "Juliano". Also "Estevan" sounds more like a Spanish name. In Brazil the most common form could be perhaps "Estevão".
Concerning female names, "Beatrice" is certainly very rare. The usual spelling would be "Beatriz".
Considering that there is no source, I believe the list there should be deleted, or replaced by some list that comes from a citable source.
-- Ekalin 23:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Would it not perhaps be useful, given that choice of name is very much tied in with language and culture (despite the homogenising effect of English), to add tables listing the most popular names within the the principal language groupings (ie. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc)? Trying to compare trends between (for example) Scotland, England, Australia, NZ, and Canada is pretty difficult with the current set-up. This is arguably of more use than only listing nations within continental groups - the most popular names in the UK have little to do with those of France, which have little to do with those of Lithuania, etc, etc.
Any thoughts?
Xdamr talk 01:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I would think that most people who look up these lists would expect to find the most common given names (first names) of people currently living in a particular country. These lists are only the most common names given to people born in 2005 or whatever year that particular list pertains to. People born in different years vastly outnumber these newborns, and most of them tend to have different names, or names in different proportions. Therefore, I propose that the name of this article be "Most popular given names for people born in year 200x". Furthermore, there should be another article with lists of the most common given names which includes people who are older than newborns or one-year-olds (the vast majority of people alive). Backspace 01:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't see how this page belongs there as an appendix.. It's more than just a listing of words, and these names are related by fast-changing popularity - not anything linguistic. Eug 00:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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During the recent AfD discussion for this article, I made the observation that it might be useful to convert the list from a single, dynamic, continually-updated list into a set of static lists by year, such as List of most popular given names in 2006, List of most popular given names in 2007, and so forth, as is already being done for the lists of the United States. This way, results from previous years would not need to be lost whenever a new publication is released. Any comments? Ayla 09:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
This section should be removed. There are no national statistics for names since the early 90's. While some names in the list are undisputably common (Maria, Ana, João), most of them are random names put there due to the personal observations of the person who made the list. Fábio, for instance, is not that common. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.154.46.59 ( talk) 20:23, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
There is no way that this list can be right. Shaniqua is not a very popular name. Not outside the black community, anyway, which doesn't seem large enough to skew the namings that much. I think that may just be a joke. 97.84.218.95 ( talk) 03:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Are you sure about it being the third most-given name in Germany? I'm german and I never even SAW (or heard) this name before —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.44.64.199 ( talk) 22:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Seriously isn't wikipedia better than having information sourced from a forum, especially when the person who claims the stats in from the US —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.121.151.142 ( talk) 19:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 04:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
In the United States category, the most common given names has a list of Asian/Pacific Islander American names and Indian names. Is that supposed to mean Native American? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.224.134 ( talk) 23:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
The keys for a few entries have been swapped back and forth between Israel and Palestine. Please can someone determine from the given reference precisely what area its data refers to? If it is for the state of Israel, let's say so in a neutral way and not mention Palestine. If the data is specifically for West Bank, East Jerusalem and/or the Gaza strip, let's explain the exact scope and form a consensus on a name for that area which is unlikely to offend any reasonable person. Can anyone interpret the Reference as a first step? Certes ( talk) 10:30, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Could we maybe stop calling them "Jewish boys" and "Muslim boys" and "Christian boys" and "Druze boys?" They are infants, not holders of religious opinion. There is very little debate between three-month old "adherents" of different religions.
I know one needs a certain amount of economy of space in a table like that, but in reality they are "Children of Jewish Parents," "Children of Muslim Parents," etc.
68.148.129.210 ( talk) 04:33, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
It looks like someone's thrown in random Indian words ("curry") and nonsense ("Ghandi's mom") for common Indian male names. I tried to find a reliable source for common male names to replace the offending text but haven't found anything so far. Could we just remove India from the list for now? -- Vpdath ( talk) 21:47, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
The article is currently focused on what names happen to be popular right now. While this is not entirely without encyclopedic value, that value is limited. Further, it is a maintenance nightmare.
A focus on what names are popular in the overall (as opposed to newly born) population would be of considerably greater value, and I very, very strongly suggest that the page is re-focused to provide exactly that.
(Similar critiques are voiced by others in some above entries.)
Additionally, a short estimated list of the most popular names world-wide would be of greater value than the listing for any individual country. (Notably, I have seen such lists on several occasions over the years, so original research would likely be unnecessary---notwithstanding that the results would only be rough approximations.) Michael Eriksson ( talk) 22:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
There should be just ten names per line. See for example the lines of the Faroe Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_most_popular_given_names&oldid=361530566. Xqsd
Wrong:
Correct:
See http://a1763.g.akamai.net/f/1763/9180/1h/women.benesse.ne.jp/general/event/rank2009/03_02_rank_01.gif In the blue section there is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 10. A repeated name is a tie, but it occupies a slot (in the picture a line, in the article a column). When the tenth place is a tie, then more that ten names may appear. Xqsd ( talk) 19:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
If the article is meant to list the ten most popular names in each country, then it should list the ten most popular names. For the Faroes you have probably named the first names of everyone born on the islands in a particular year! Oh and what is all the "I won't agree to do this" thing here - no one owns the page, so if the consensus is that the system used in compiling the data should change, then it should change. 109.94.137.1 ( talk) 10:39, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
(See prior discussion above.) I've been repeatedly removing this absurd list of names (and already mentioned it once above on this talk page), giving a reason in the edit summary each time, and User:Bookworm857158367, who seems to have some WP:OWNership issues, keeps re-adding them with no valid reason. Edit-warring without discussion (and without any valid reasons) is not the way to improve Wikipedia. Shreevatsa ( talk) 20:47, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I will reiterate my reasons, although I am annoyed at having to do so:
Any single one of these reasons alone would disqualify having it in the article. That it is repeatedly reinserted despite all these reasons makes me wonder about the sanity of the process here. Shreevatsa ( talk) 20:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I hate to nit pick, but the Korean names in the article use inconsistent semi-phonetic Romanisation.Perhaps accurate in terms of what the children are likely to use, perhaps it is better to use the "official"/recommended Romanisation. Below are the Revised Romanisation versions of the names.
Boys
Girls
Cashie ( talk) 05:58, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Why Azerbaijani names in Asia list, while Armenia and Georgia in Europe?-- NovaSkola ( talk) 16:24, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I think this is not where it should be. But regardless of whether it is consistent or not to put this statistic, the statistic is in itself not right. I checked the source and it is an amateur website. There is tons of reasons why this statistic is impossible to get such as the fact that France's government does not collect statistic on minorities but also because how do you tell if someone is Muslim or not just by looking at records. I know a lot of French Muslims who have names like Julien, etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anon1794 ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
The whole list is very scrappy. Some countries seem to have entries for multiple ethnic groupings, while others aren't included at all. Would it not be more appropriate to have a single entry for each country based on the overall most popular names for girls and boys, and then, if a country has multiple other sources available, either include these in seperate tables at the end of this article, or split them out into individual country lists? 109.94.137.1 ( talk) 11:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
By having the statistics, shouldn't be hard for a bot to perhaps unify the list... When you search for "List of most popular given names" you want the most popular, period. Not the most popular on some arbitrarily (and not undisputed) defined regions (e.g. continents: /info/en/?search=Continent#Number_of_continents)... Sure, this list (as is) may be useful for some, but it's not what the title suggests. Also, there are different lists in the 'Category: Lists of popular names' for different regions, so when I come at the article that doesn't specify regions, I'm looking for the overall list. Just my humble opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.123.131.76 ( talk) 03:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
The name Evangelos under the Greek famous names linked to:
which is an article about a certain "Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassio" which does not say anything about the name. Sadly, there is no disambiguation or given name for "Evangelos" on wikipedia, despite there being quite a few articles for people named Evangelos. The best I could do is have it link to the Vangelis disambiguation page, because at least there it showed a little about the name and not a link to a single person. 75.73.114.111 ( talk) 05:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I’m Andrew Clark and I work at the Office for National Statistics in the UK.
We publish lots of infographics and I wonder if these ones would be of interest for List_of_most_popular_given_names
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_Names_Top_100_in_England_and_Wales,_2012.png
FYI, the full gallery, updated weekly, is here < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Content_created_by_the_Office_for_National_Statistics>
All the best
Andrew Clark (smanders1982) 10 Dec 2013
Smanders1982 ( talk) 14:01, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
I removed unofficial names, as it is speculation and rumours. The data needs to have source.-- Xoncha ( talk) 05:14, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
I am quite sure that the data that is listed for Algeria is the result of a misunderstanding:
The source given goes to the Spanish statistics office, which publishes data tables like in this Excel sheet where one can find data, among other, about Algerians living in Spain, not data about people in Algeria.
I tried to find genuine data about Algeria itself and failed. The last census was 2008, not 2010, and the Algerian statistics office does not seem to publish data about given names resulting from this census.
I propose to simply delete the Algeria data.
The data given for Mali and probably for Equatorial Guinea as well seem to come from the same Spanish source and thus seem invalid in the same way to me. Here I did not yet try to find alternative sources about those countries, however. Rbrunner7 ( talk) 18:47, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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Can someone check that? It links to Abbas ibn Ali with the link name AbulFazl. That doesn't seem to make sense, but has been in the article for months. -- mfb ( talk) 16:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
China section looks weird, with the list of common names all fit in one cell for place #1, which breaks the table, and doesn't make any sense. I removed cell borders there, and it looked much better. But then it was reverted by Bookworm857158367. Is it some automatic revert by the bot? Clearly if a person looked at it, they would see that it was better after my edit. Stansult ( talk) 09:36, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
I don't know why people keep changing the names. Armenia is considered part of West Asia. I'm not sure about the consensus behind other countries like Georgia or Cyprus, but the Wikipedia article for Armenia, backed up by sources clearly states this: "Located in Western Asia". The page for their own ethnic group even states: Armenians are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia. I know they're sometimes described as being a "transcontinental" country (?), but still. They're generally considered part of (West) Asia or even the Middle East. They're even included in the various lists pertaining to Asian countries. Perhaps we could add a color code to signify that a certain country is technically transcontinental, but generally considered to be part of one continent, like how Russia is technically mostly in Asia, but most people would think of them as being part of Eastern Europe? IDK. Clear Looking Glass ( talk) 03:30, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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