are named vs are called

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A complete search of the internet has found these results:

are named is the most popular phrase on the web.

Some examples from the web:

Both are named after burial sites in Saxony
Anhalt.
Several places are named after the river, for instance Glåmdal and Glåmos.
Girls are named at a synagogue service.
They are named by various ethnonyms and had lived in 164 places described by toponyms.
Her sisters are named Christie and Melissa.
Where only the grandmothers are named Ziva.
Half the kids I know are named it.

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Answer 1

More popular!

are named

2,520,000,000 results on the web

Answer 2

2,440,000,000 results on the web