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.

  • Lvxferre
    34•10 months ago

    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?

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
      23•10 months ago

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

      The name means “gift”. Pretty universal.

      • @AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
        10•10 months ago

        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!

      • mr47
        9•10 months ago

        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”.

      • @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        5•10 months ago

        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.

        • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
          3•10 months ago

          I’m sure “gift” as a name is popular in those regions, too, even if it doesn’t stem from the same root.

          • @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
            6•10 months ago

            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.

        • @andallthat@lemmy.world
          2•10 months ago

          John the Baptist is considered a prophet also in Islam, so local variations of the name John are not so infrequent in Muslim countries, at least according to Wikipedia, see Yahya.

    • @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      12•10 months ago

      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.

      • Lvxferre
        11•10 months ago

        I don’t know the answer, but at least this gives us some way to actually count this:

        • check which languages encompass 90% (or more) of the native speakers of Earth
        • check the most names that fit 90% (or more) of the native speakers of each language
        • sum up names across languages that you deemed to be “the same”, like John and Yuhanna

        There’ll be a tiny bit of error there, but given that you’re focusing only on the most common name, I guess that it’s fine.

        I wonder if there’s some previous research on that. Digging further yielded nothing for me. (You got me curious, too.)