15. A method comprising: identifying a creating user of a social networking system; accessing a user profile in the social networking system including information about the creating user; identifying a set of users associated with the creating user in the social networking system; accessing user profiles associated with each user in the set of users by the social networking system; identifying, based on the user profile in the social networking system and the user profiles associated with each user in the set of users, one or more common characteristics between the creating user and at least one user in the set of users; selecting a common characteristic from the one or more common characteristics between the creating user and at least one user in the set of users; identifying one or more users having the selected common characteristic from the set of users; generating, by a processor, a group recommendation based on the selected common characteristic, the group recommendation for a social networking system group to be created by the creating user including the one or more identified users and a title of a group; and presenting the group recommendation to the creating user.
15. A method comprising: identifying a creating user of a social networking system; accessing a user profile in the social networking system including information about the creating user; identifying a set of users associated with the creating user in the social networking system; accessing user profiles associated with each user in the set of users by the social networking system; identifying, based on the user profile in the social networking system and the user profiles associated with each user in the set of users, one or more common characteristics between the creating user and at least one user in the set of users; selecting a common characteristic from the one or more common characteristics between the creating user and at least one user in the set of users; identifying one or more users having the selected common characteristic from the set of users; generating, by a processor, a group recommendation based on the selected common characteristic, the group recommendation for a social networking system group to be created by the creating user including the one or more identified users and a title of a group; and presenting the group recommendation to the creating user. 18. The method of claim 15 , wherein selecting the common characteristic from the one or more common characteristics between the creating user and at least one user in the set of users comprises: for each of the one or more common characteristics, determining a number of users in the set of users associated with a common characteristic; and selecting a common characteristic associated with a highest number of users in the set of users.