Common-law marriage

Quality:

Common-law marriage - type of marriage with no formal ceremony. Article “Common-law marriage” in English Wikipedia has 47.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.23 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Common-law marriage”, its content was written by 407 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 726 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 819 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2204 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2201 in July 2003
• Global: #7368 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9207 in July 2011
• Global: #6766 in July 2018

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Common-law marriage		47.0579
2	Estonian (et) Vabaabielu		46.9457
3	Japanese (ja) 事実婚		39.2097
4	Hebrew (he) ידוע בציבור		39.046
5	Korean (ko) 사실혼		36.8317
6	Serbian (sr) Ванбрачна заједница		28.4205
7	German (de) Common-law marriage		28.287
8	Chinese (zh) 普通法婚姻		25.0077
9	Turkish (tr) Resmî nikâhsız birliktelik		22.2995
10	Swedish (sv) Samvetsäktenskap		19.4204

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common-law marriage		8 721 743
2	Japanese (ja) 事実婚		2 445 904
3	Hebrew (he) ידוע בציבור		278 615
4	Spanish (es) Matrimonio en common-law		163 221
5	Korean (ko) 사실혼		135 799
6	German (de) Common-law marriage		127 067
7	Chinese (zh) 普通法婚姻		103 150
8	Persian (fa) ازدواج کامن لا		92 448
9	French (fr) Mariage de fait en common law		58 228
10	Swedish (sv) Samvetsäktenskap		39 158

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common-law marriage		26 790
2	Japanese (ja) 事実婚		7 081
3	Persian (fa) ازدواج کامن لا		942
4	Korean (ko) 사실혼		839
5	German (de) Common-law marriage		838
6	Chinese (zh) 普通法婚姻		635
7	Hebrew (he) ידוע בציבור		499
8	Spanish (es) Matrimonio en common-law		356
9	Estonian (et) Vabaabielu		274
10	Serbian (sr) Ванбрачна заједница		208

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common-law marriage		407
2	Japanese (ja) 事実婚		72
3	Hebrew (he) ידוע בציבור		57
4	French (fr) Mariage de fait en common law		31
5	Chinese (zh) 普通法婚姻		27
6	Spanish (es) Matrimonio en common-law		22
7	Korean (ko) 사실혼		19
8	German (de) Common-law marriage		18
9	Swedish (sv) Samvetsäktenskap		18
10	Estonian (et) Vabaabielu		15

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 普通法婚姻		2
2	Persian (fa) ازدواج کامن لا		1
3	French (fr) Mariage de fait en common law		1
4	Hebrew (he) ידוע בציבור		1
5	German (de) Common-law marriage		0
6	English (en) Common-law marriage		0
7	Spanish (es) Matrimonio en common-law		0
8	Estonian (et) Vabaabielu		0
9	Croatian (hr) Izvanbračna zajednica		0
10	Japanese (ja) 事実婚		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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