For some reason I find stuff like this fascinating. That's a distribution of names from the last U.S. census. Looking at the surnames file, I can see that my last name is the 297th most common surname in the country, with 0.037% of the population sharing my last name. I thought it was more common than that.
Varga is 6248th (0.002%), Crawford is 132nd (0.068%). Brown wins at 5th place; 0.621% of the U.S. has that name. Lo isn't doing too badly at 3049th place (0.004%). Suiter is way down there at 7179th (0.002%), Walker is 25th at 0.219%. That's more popular than I thought. Marion comes in at 1873 (0.007%). Probably not surprisingly, Kennedy is at 137 (0.067%).
I guess if I had to steal an identity, my new name would be "Brown".
Varga would have a better showing in the U.S. if more bohunks would move here... ;)
Posted by suzi at April 5, 2006 8:12 PMMy first name is unfortunately high on the list of common names. Explains why there are 4 Susans where I work (there used to be 6!!). William is quite popular too, I noticed...
Posted by suzi at April 5, 2006 8:16 PMBut... then the bohunks would take all the jobs! :-) (I had to look the word up, you see.)
Yeah, but my middle name isn't so common, right about the middle. There's also some good names down there at the bottom!
Posted by wee at April 5, 2006 10:53 PMTracy's at #108 (just ahead of Edna). LouPotato, it may be noted, was nowhere on the list.
I, also, had to look up bohunk. Thanks for teaching us a new word!
Posted by Tess at April 6, 2006 8:26 AMPete described himself once as a Bohunk because his ancestors are from Hungary. His mother, however, has Polish roots, so Polack could also apply. Together- you get PoHunk. Or BoLock, which sounds a bit more pants...
Posted by suzi at April 6, 2006 8:17 PMCheckout this thing:
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Wow, Mig, that's a very cool link! I could look at it for hours. God help us when it's time to name a kid - I have real trouble even picking out greeting cards, let alone someone's lifelong identification.
Posted by Tess at April 7, 2006 2:37 PMI'll have to look at it on your PC, Tess. I don't have the Java-fu going on this PC...
Oh yeah, I'm so going to call Pete a PoHunk when I see him next...
Posted by wee at April 7, 2006 5:42 PMhehe, yay, im SUPER low...
Posted by toddler at April 21, 2006 2:51 PM