Commons hears how Labour’s Mohammad Yasin was taken aside at Heathrow and Toronto despite travelling on official business
  • Echo Dot
    7•1 year ago

    And Smith is the most common last name. So statistically speaking most people are called Maria Smith

    • @blindsight@beehaw.org
      4•1 year ago

      Only in the US. Internationally, the most common last name is Wang:

      Wang is a patronymic (ancestral) name that means “king” in Mandarin, and it’s shared by more than 92 million people in China, making it the most popular last name in the world. The reason it’s so populous today may have a lot to do with the fact that many royal families changed their name to Wang when their kingdoms fell under the first Qin dynasty emperor. This was both to preserve their status and protect themselves from assassination.
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      So Mohammed Wang is the most common name in the world.