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MP stopped from boarding Air Canada flight as ‘his name was Mohammad’
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Wait I thought it was the most popular first name?
I've literally never met anyone named Nushi lol. Where are they hiding?
India, I assume.
Nope, never met anyone with that name
Sources say it’s of Hindi origin, but when I actually checked the statistics, it says there’s only 130 people in India with the name, while there’s ~56 million in China. So it seems to be mostly a Chinese name. Although further googling seems to indicate that’s the Chinese name for "Mrs."… so it might be that these sources are reading the title field as the first name, lol.
And Smith is the most common last name. So statistically speaking most people are called Maria Smith
Only in the US. Internationally, the most common last name is Wang:
So Mohammed Wang is the most common name in the world.
It's Wang. There are 92 million people with that surname in China, and a few more in other countries.
Oh. Well I guess that means we need to try harder.