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I think John and Luke are still more common nowadays. John also has about as many options are Jonathan, I think (he can also be Jack, Jackie, Jake...). And would you really call Johannes (yo-HAN-es) John? There's no John sound, even if it is a form of John. (You could call him Hans, which I find adorable personally, but not John.)

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I didn't respond to the original post so I don't know quite where the anger is coming from. I assume people wanted to assure you that those names were full names just in case you didn't know. A lot of people DO assume that Luke, Mark, Lily, Sophie, Sylvie, and others are nicknames and it rather ticks me off, as they're legitimate full names. I don't know how you phrased it in your original post, but it was probably ambiguous. You should probably have clarified that there and not made a new post.