He especially referred to Wikipedia and forebearsio for quick-access data.

Most common first name in each country. Singh 37 million. The most popular given names vary nationally regionally and culturallyLists of widely-used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year thus reflecting the current onomastic trends or else be composed of the personal names occurring most within the total population. Nua Shealtainn in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic meaning New Shetland Sealtainn itself from a metathesised form of Scots Shetland.

Wikipedia has done an amazing here and compiled a list of common names in each country see it here List of most popular given names - Wikipedia. Aotearoa conventionally means land of the long white cloud. Wu 28 million.

New ignore_indexTrue Now source2 has two modes for the USA New-York group they are NY and New. Top 10 popular girl names 2015 data are. Smith 30 million.

And according to VividMaps here are the most common surnames around the world. Александр Aleksandr Михаил Mikhail Максим Maksim Артём Artyom Даниил Daniil - More at this link. Johnson is the number two most popular name in 22 states.

- Most popular boys names. Name Number Name Number. Liu 52 million.

Source2 sourceappend pdSeriesCountry. Zhang 68 million. There is a pretty massive list of given first names 50000 and its carefully curated not machine generated.