The most popular girl's name in the world - Sofia, and the men - Mohammed

In the editorial office site was very curious statistics. The famous "imenolog" Laura Uattenberg, founder of the site BabyNameWizard, where you can learn about the history and common names in the world, conducted a statistical analiz.I found that the vast majority of mothers and fathers around the world in 2014-2015 named their newborn girls Sofiyami ( Sophia, Sofia, Sophie, Sophie, Sofa, Sonja). For some mysterious reason, the same choice is made on five continents people of different nationalities and religions, speaking of twenty-two different languages.



Sophia - Greek name means "wisdom, reason and science." Globally, it pushed the first to lead Mary. Maria - a Hebrew name meaning in Hebrew "bitterness." In the Orthodox tradition, it, however, translated as "Madame».

Laura Uattenberg graphically sophias spread around the world. The picture is really impressive. A surge in the popularity graph of this name in the United States - all amazing. As if people went to the team from somewhere over.

Sofia holds first place in Ukraine, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia (Sofija), but in Belarus, Maria Sophia shifted to the second position.

By the way, Laura Uattenberg reports that the most popular name for boys has been Mohammed.

And a little more statistics, this time related directly to our country.

The most popular names for girls in Russia h3> 1. Sofia. 2. Maria. 3. Anastasia. 4. Anna. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Victoria. 7. Daria. 8. Polina. 9. Barbara. 10. Alice. 11. Alexander. 12. Catherine. 13. Xenia. 14. Arina. 15. Veronica. 16. Vasilisa. 17. Valery. 18. Milan. 19. Juliana. 20. Eve. 21. Cyrus. 22. Faith. 23. Margarita. 24. Alena. 25. Christina. 26. Alina. 27.Taisiya. 28. Olga. 29. Diana. 30. Julia.

The data from 2014.

Unfortunately, the same list, dedicated to the boys in the editorial office there, but we know that the most popular name for boys for the past several decades, remains the name of Alexander.



via www.kp.ru/daily/26455/3326774/