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		PeterisP on Oct 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db Many people prefer popular first names. For example, there are probably more than 150 million people with the first name Muhammad or some spelling variation thereof.

CyberDildonics on Oct 8, 2020 [–]

That has nothing to do with 'preferring a popular first name', that is a part of how people are named according to lineage in islam.

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