Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Name Game

So some of you might have seen the result of my vanity search below where I discovered a disturbing number of people with my name. I decided to find out theoretically just how many people with my name are out there using census data. But why stop there? So I made a table of various people I know to see how they rank. I had to leave off people who have hyphenated names, who go by shortened names that I don't know the original spelling, or whose last names I don't remember. Some names didn't appear on the census list, so I made a high estimate.


NamePeople with Name
Stephen S16,211
Stephanie J9,668
Robert C7,503
John F2,928
Joseph H1,006
Liz W643
Heather C553
Eric B536
Tom N371
Morgan B334
Jared C316
Lauren W225
Helen C198
Lizzy G168
Rachel R159
Carl S <120
Jay F102
Matt H98
Darrell F94
Chris W62
Jenny C <28
George K <28
Celeste F22
Nick H16
Eric L <16
Pat V <12
Albert R <9.4
Kate C9.3
Kimberly B6.9
Meredith H3.9
Yvonne P3.8
Kristen G <3.3
Jenna I1.8
Luke M <1.2
Hadley R <0.36
Lindis C <0.12
Raya S <0.03


I'm kind of wondering about the names at the bottom of the list. Does this mean that there's only a 3% chance that Raya exists?

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