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The Most Popular Names Used In Song Titles

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On The Table Read Magazine, “the best entertainment magazine in the UK“, a new study has revealed that John and Mary are the most popular names used in song titles.

 Research by music industry experts Music Industry How To analyzed 2,262,292 unique track titles from 1 million Spotify playlists to discover which first names appeared the most frequently. They then found the most streamed songs on Spotify with the names in the titles. Below shows how the results have been displayed. 

Most Popular Names Used In Song Titles

Female names – Mentions in song titles  

  •         Mary – Featured in 1,803 song titles 

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Mary On A Cross – Ghost: 286,170,234 streams 

Proud Mary – Tina Turner: 135,614,411 streams 

  •       Maria – Featured in 1,714 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Maria Maria – Santana: 217,654,785 streams 

Maria – Blondie: 94,427,125 streams 

  •       Georgia – Featured in 698 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Georgia – Vance Joy: 421,856,204 streams 

Georgia on My Mind – Ray Charles: 86,514,721 streams 

  •       Jane – Featured in 659 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Plaine Jane – A$AP Ferg: 648,171,944 streams 

Jane – Jefferson Starship: 61,410,581 streams 

  •       Bella – Featured in 580 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Bella Ciao – Manu Pilas: 183,552,399 streams 

Bella – Red Hot Chili Peppers: 5,929,737 streams 

  •       Linda – Featured in 579 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Linda – Tokischa: 117,256,646 streams 

Linda – Projota: 96,346,234 streams 

  •       Juliet – Featured in 459 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Check Yes, Juliet – We The Kings: 234,979,068 streams 

Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits: 230,039,431 streams 

  •       Carmen – Featured in 440 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Carmen – Lana Del Rey: 137,697,825 streams 

Carmen – Stromae: 57,302,993 streams 

  •       Carolina – Featured in 439 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Carolina – Harry Styles: 181,229,423 streams 

Carolina – Taylor Swift: 40,055,359 streams 

  •       Paloma – Featured in 419 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Paloma – Mr. P: 6,269,473 streams 

Paloma – We Are Wolves: 2,624,626 streams 

 

Male names – Mentions in song titles

  •       John – Featured in 2,040 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

John – Lil Wayne, Rick Ross: 66,025,138 streams 

John Hughes Movie – Maisie Peters: 18,334,747 streams             

  •       Johnny – Featured in 1,071 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry: 370,896,823 streams 

Johnny Run Away – Tones And I: 80,119,916 streams 

  •       David – Featured in 876 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

David – Cody Jinks: 19,131,943 streams 

David – BLANCO: 13,828,498 streams 

  •       James – Featured in 863 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

James – Sam Brookes: 24,034,002 streams 

James – MGMT – 9,789,389 streams 

  •       Peter – Featured in 611 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Peter Pan – Kelsea Ballerini: 132,876,638 streams 

Peter Pan Was Right – Anson Seabra: 40,510,187 streams 

  •       Michael – Featured in 609 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Big Michael – Stormzy: 26,093,870 streams 

Michael – Franz Ferdinand: 11,455,153 streams 

  •       Paul – Featured in 608 song titles

Most popular song the name is featured on: 

Paul – Big Thief: 65,916,492 streams 

Paul – Cavetown: 11,464,564 streams 

  •       Emmanuel – Featured in 565 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Enya: 9,821,096 streams 

Emmanuel – Ameer Vann: 4,234,412 streams 

  •       Alex – Featured in 551 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Alex – Roy Blair: 4,345,538 streams 

Alex – Wild Child: 3,799,620 streams 

  •       Mike – Featured in 533 song titles

Most popular songs the name is featured on: 

Mike – Elvana Gjata: 10,450,366 streams 

Mike – Fred Again: 2,250,328 streams

Music Industry

A spokesperson from Music Industry How To commented “Music has been a means of communicating stories for thousands of years, lyrics allow artists to speak to an audience. They are the embodiment of a musician’s experience and allow for others to relate and feel the emotion that they felt. People are often at the heart of these stories, lovers, family and friends. Therefore, it’s understandable why names have been featured in the titles of many tracks over the decades.” 

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