Legal name

Legal name - name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. Article “Legal name” in English Wikipedia has 43.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.29 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.

In June 2026 the article “Legal name” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Legal name”, its content was written by 125 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 195 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 581 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #69126 in July 2017
• Global: #60256 in November 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74258 in December 2012
• Global: #117759 in December 2014

There are 9 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, 2026 (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) Legal name		43.45
2	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		24.199
3	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		19.7014
4	Chinese (zh) 本名		13.6527
5	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		6.2053
6	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		1.1589
7	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		1.0498
8	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		0.9766
9	Simple English (simple) Legal name		0.2872

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Legal name" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legal name		1 000 074
2	Chinese (zh) 本名		134 164
3	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		119 295
4	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		27 886
5	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		9 769
6	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		5 733
7	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		5 483
8	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		3 385
9	Simple English (simple) Legal name		686

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Legal name" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legal name		3 238
2	Chinese (zh) 本名		521
3	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		232
4	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		37
5	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		30
6	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		13
7	Simple English (simple) Legal name		12
8	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		7
9	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		0

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

Language versions of the article "Legal name" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legal name		125
2	Chinese (zh) 本名		25
3	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		21
4	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		7
5	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		5
6	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		5
7	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		3
8	Simple English (simple) Legal name		3
9	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		1

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

Language versions of the article "Legal name" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legal name		1
2	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		0
3	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		0
4	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		0
5	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		0
6	Simple English (simple) Legal name		0
7	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		0
9	Chinese (zh) 本名		0

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

Language versions of the article "Legal name" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Legal name		581
2	Chinese (zh) 本名		367
3	Russian (ru) Юридическое имя физического лица		149
4	Arabic (ar) اسم قانوني		83
5	Ukrainian (uk) Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи		82
6	Portuguese (pt) Nome civil		43
7	Swedish (sv) Borgerligt namn		11
8	Korean (ko) 법적 이름		7
9	Simple English (simple) Legal name		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اسم قانوني
en	English Legal name
ko	Korean 법적 이름
pt	Portuguese Nome civil
ru	Russian Юридическое имя физического лица
simple	Simple English Legal name
sv	Swedish Borgerligt namn
uk	Ukrainian Юридичне ім'я фізичної особи
zh	Chinese 本名

Best Rank

English: #74258 12.2012

Global: #117759 12.2014

Best Rank

English: #69126 07.2017

Global: #60256 11.2019

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