What's in a name?

[MichaelB]

I guess this fits the "what do you do all day" category. Here's a short analysis of popular names in the US Dear Mona, What’s The Most Common Name In America? | FiveThirtyEight More interesting (for me), the piece has links to Census databases to two files; the 1000 most common surnames, and all the surnames in the US. Fewer than 1K occurrences of my last name, even less than half that for DW.

 

[2017ish]

Interesting census data sets. Thanks for passing along! (Our last names were both under 500--with DW being "twice as 'unique'" as me.)

 

[Live And Learn]

Love the census data. Thanks for posting that ! My surname occured ~2500 times. DH's surname isn't even on the list (less than 100 occurances).

 

[W2R]

Wow, both my given name and my surname are fairly uncommon! I didn't realize that. They seem like just normal names, to me.

Interesting article, MichaelB, thanks for the link.

 

[Bestwifeever]

Yes, another reason I love the Census!