Name Facts

If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives."

Barack Obama's first name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili, borrowed from the Arabic root B-R-K

In France, there's a place called Y.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Pepsi was named after pepsin, the digestive enzyme. Creator Caleb Bradham believed his 1898 drink aided digestion, though it actually contained papain from papaya rather than true pepsin.

The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan!

The most common first name in the world for males is Muhammad (and its various spellings)!

Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.

According to popular legend, L. Frank Baum came up with the name "Oz" for his famous fantasy land when he glanced at his filing cabinet and saw the drawer labels A-N and O-Z. While Baum never confirmed this story, it became one of literature's most repeated origin tales.

The names of all seven continents end with the same letter they begin with: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

Muhammad is the most common name in the world.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

There is a city called Rome on every continent except Antarctica.

Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!

Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur means "muddy confluence" in Malay

Los Angeles's original name from 1781 was 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula' - a 55-character mouthful that Spanish settlers thankfully shortened over time.

Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."

In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Sony was originally called 'Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo' (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation), often abbreviated as 'Totsuko' in Japanese, before rebranding to Sony in 1958.

There is a town called Okay, OK. It has a population of 600 people.