[vidarh]

> Is Elizabeth the 2nd the most popular person in that list of people or is beth a common name?

If I Google "Elizabeth", there is no link to the Wikipedia page for Elizabeth II on the first page in Google (I do realize of course that Google results can differ wildly by person), but Elizabeth I, and links to various news items about Elizabeth II. Of course people might click Elizabeth I and end up clicking through to her. I have a hard time thinking that drives a huge amount of traffic, though. If I Google "Beth", neither queen is on the first page.

But I'd think the huge amount of the news coverage about her related to a long range of other events and people, is likely what drives a large part of what drives the Wikipedia lookups. E.g. she's probably been in the news even more than usual over the last year over things like the Trump visits and the Meghan Markle wedding, but there's also a steady stream of coverage of her due to various other visits to/by high profile people.

[kijin]

When you're on Google searching for the Queen, you just type "the Queen". There's been no other queen (apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody guys) in a major English-speaking country for the better part of a century, so there's no need to refer to her by her name.