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  2. African-American names - Wikipedia

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    They favor an explanatory model which attributes a change in black perceptions of their identity to the black power movement. The most common and typical female slave names in America included Bet, Mary, Jane, Hanna, Betty, Sarah, Phillis, Nan, Peg, and Sary. Private names were Abah, Bilah, Comba, Dibb, Juba, Kauchee, Mima, and Sena.

  3. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    List of irregularly spelled English names. This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.

  4. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Religion. Religious names are extremely popular in the United States. Most of the popular names are rooted in the Christian Bible, but other religions are represented, such as in the popular name Mohammed. Names like Jacob, Noah, Elijah, John, Elizabeth, Leah, and Jesús consistently rank very high.

  5. Category:English-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin‎ (1 C, 66 P) S. Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames‎ (132 P) W. Anglicised Welsh-language surnames‎ (56 P)

  6. Category:Surnames of African origin - Wikipedia

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    This category has the following 48 subcategories, out of 48 total. Surnames of Central African origin ‎ (9 C, 3 P) Surnames of East African origin ‎ (7 C) Surnames of North African origin ‎ (1 C) Surnames of West African origin ‎ (4 C, 8 P)

  7. Lists of most common surnames - Wikipedia

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    Lists of the most common surnames by continent: List of most common surnames in Asia. List of most common surnames in Europe. List of most common surnames in North America. List of most common surnames in Oceania. List of most common surnames in South America.

  8. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    Relative to the sustained German mass immigration during the 19th and early 20th century, this practice of surname translation was unusual and not very widespread. [ 27 ] In the 1940s, automobile registration documents, along with widespread implementation of social security, [ 28 ] played an important role in stabilizing American surnames by ...

  9. Surname - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 1,712 surnames cover 50% of the population, and about 1% of the population has the surname Smith, the most common American name. [86] According to some estimates, 85% of China's population shares just 100 surnames. The names Wang (王), Zhang (张), and Li (李) are the most frequent.