With the 2019 ASICS Greater Manchester Marathon just over a month away, we are busy preparing all the details for the big day, and it seems St David’s Day was an appropriate time to reveal that ‘David’ will be the most common name of our runners this year.

Out of nearly 20,000 runners we are expecting a remarkable 421 David’s, and that’s before you add another 82 Daves! So there’s a 5% chance the person next to you will be one at any given time.

Here we have collated the top 10 most popular names in the Marathon, is your name one of them?

Top Women’s Names:

1. Sarah (213)
2. Emma (158)
3. Laura (122)
4. Rachel (111)
5. Claire (106)
6. Rebecca (100)
7. Nicola (84)
8. Karen (74)
9. Lucy (71)
10. Louise (69)

Top Men’s Names:

1. David (421)
2. Paul (407)
3. Mark (341)
4. James (340)
5. Andrew (332)
6. Chris (303)
7. John (277)
8. Richard (244)
9. Michael (240)
10. Simon (216)