That exciting body, Spain's National Statistics Institute, has just published a list of the most common names of Spain's residents, as well as lists showing how those names are distributed across Spain. Surprisingly, only 3.15% of women are called María, but the number shoots up to 28.5% if you include nombres compuestos such as María José. Meanwhile, 13.7% of men in Spain (most of whom are Spanish men) have José somewhere in their name. In Ceuta and Melilla, meanwhile, the most common name is Mohamed. And I'm pleased to report that in its article on the subject, El País saw fit to point out the surprising (to me) fact that 0.14% of the residents of Spain have Jonathan as part of their name. Pretty impressive, when you think that Cesár, that most Spanish of names, stands at only 0.19%.