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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 .
Many, if not most, Indigenous Canadians (primarily in this First Nations and Métis people, but also Inuit to an extent) carry European surnames, and most of those are French names, either because of intermarriage with French Canadian and Métis men and indigenous women or because a surname was assigned to an indigenous person by a French ...
The U.S Census Bureau had generated the list of top 1,000 surnames according to the 2010 U.S. census. In the accompanied list of top 10 surnames the #10 is Martinez displacing Wilson. [12] This reflects the anticipated population shift in the United States. [13] During the 2000 U.S. census, the top one 100 surnames in the U.S. were: [14] [15] [16]
Lists of the most common surnames by continent: Lists of most common surnames in African countries; Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries; Lists of most common surnames in European countries; Lists of most common surnames in North American countries; Lists of most common surnames in Oceanian countries
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Grey Owl (1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Rick Hansen CC OBC LLD ( hc ) DLitt ( hc ) (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
Simon Mailloux, first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission; Jos Montferrand, French-Canadian hero; Édouard Montpetit, lawyer, economist, scholar; Bruno Pauletto, physiologist, shot putter, businessman, coach, author; Mélanie Paquin, beauty pageant winner; Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon, journalist and writer
Canadian Natural Resources: Calgary 16.2 2.0 53.9 37.6 Oil and Gas 13 346 TC Energy: Calgary 10.3 2.9 72.4 43.2 Oil and Gas 14 364 Alimentation Couche-Tard: Laval 59.7 2.0 22.2 33.7 Retail: 15 388 Canadian National Railway: Montreal 11.0 3.3 30.5 67.9 Transportation: 16 397 Power Corporation of Canada: Montreal 40.0 1.0 326.7 11.4 Finance 17 427