1.   Jones is a very common name in Britain.

2.   Jones is a very common name in Great Britain.

3.   Olson is a very common last name in Minnesota.

4.   His name was Hansen, a common name in Norway.

5.   It was probably a common name here.

6.   All this helps to avoid the confusion of common names, which change from place to place and generation to generation.

7.   An appendix chronicling common names, scientific names and distributions of wildflowers should help the budding biologist.

8.   And for those of you about to give birth and planning to come up with a common name with an uncommon spelling, please think again, Evans said.

9.   And the poppy mallows earned their common name because their flowers resemble poppies, particularly those of the popular California poppies.

10.   And they know that I prefer the more evocative common name, even if using it risks confusion with some other plant.