18,000 Olympic Champions - Liu Xiang
Olympic Champion and world record holder Liu Xiang is China's second most famous athlete, behind Yao Ming.
So popular that parents name their kids after him….18,462 of them.
Chinese are fond of naming their kids after stars -
Liu Dehua (Andy Lau) - 16,975 have the same name.
Fan Bingbing - 8,000 or so with the same name.
Some Chinese use ancient characters….one family even tried to name their kids @.
The top three names in China - Li, Wang, Zhang make up about 270 million or one in five Chinese. The fourth most popular name is Liu with about 60 million or 5.83% of the Chinese population.
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