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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
The English literacy rate of East Indians (above ten years of age) was 56% to the 97.3% literacy rate of Afro-Guyanese communities. [ 34 ] Female Guyanese students have outperformed their male counterparts in regional examinations, and more women than men attend universities to advance their careers.
This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana , notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Guyanese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Guyanese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist; Avi Nash, American actor; Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1; Sandhja, Finnish singer; Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress; Nandini Sharan, bhajan singer and wife of Hari Om Sharan
English is the main language, and Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, although many people in neighboring Suriname also speak English. British English is taught in school and used in Government and business. Guyanese creole, a pidgin of 17th-century English, African and Hindi words, is used at home and on the street.
Despite their diverse ethnic backgrounds, most groups share a common language of English and its Guyanese English Creole vernacular. The largest ethnic group is the Indo-Guyanese (also known as East Indians), the descendants of indentured labourers from India who make up 43.5% of the population, according to the 2002 census.