The Twitter statistics page "World of Statistics", which is followed by more than 2,6 million people, has published a list of the most used names in the world.
According to this site, the most commonly used names are of religious origin. Worldwide, more than 133 million people are named Mohammed, while more than 61 million women are named Maria.
Mohammed – 133,349,300
Mary – 61,134,526
Nushi – 55,898,624
Joseph – 29,946,427
Wei – 17,145,807
Ahmed – 14,916,476
Yan – 14,793,356
Ali – 14,763,733
John – 14,323,797
David – 13,429,576
Lee – 13,166,162
Abdul – 12,163,978
Anne – 12,091,132
Ying – 12,047,080
Michael – 11,471,765
Yuan – 11,372,603
Anna – 11,350,336
Mary – 11,303,767
Jean – 11,024,162
Robert – 10,170,794
Daniel – 10,026,181
Louis – 9,757,245
Carlos – 9,618,779
James – 8,807,695
Antonio – 8,659,274
Joseph – 8,630,833
Hui – 8,516,339./a2cnn