According to the custom of English-speaking people, when a baby is baptized, it is called the Christian name by the priest or parents or relatives. In the future, I can take a second name after my Christian name.
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For a long time, the British had only a first name and no last name. It was not until the16th century that the use of surnames became widely popular. According to experts' estimation, there are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million surnames in English-speaking countries.
According to experts' estimation, there are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million British surnames. Professor Zhou Haizhong, a famous scholar in China, pointed out in his paper on English names published in 1992 that there are about 3,000 common English surnames.
The top ten are Smith, Jones, Williams, Brown, Davis, Johnson, Anderson, Taylor, Thomas and Evans. Its population accounts for about half of the English population.
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