{"id":4175,"date":"2003-01-23T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2003-01-23T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T19:55:28","slug":"naming_conventi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/naming_conventi.html","title":{"rendered":"Naming conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some fun name files<\/a> from the US 1990 Census on name distribution.<\/p>\n

David <\/b>was the 6th most common male name, making up 2.363% of the population (17.716% of the population is made up of folks named David or one of the 5 more popular names). (People who wrote their name on the census as “Dave” were #271, adding another 0.053% of the population.) Multiply that by 290MM people, and you come up with about 6.8MM Davids out there. Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n

Hill <\/b>was the 33rd most common male name, making up 0.189% of the population (11.035% of the population is made up of folks named Hill or one of the 32 more popular names).<\/p>\n

Marjorie <\/b>was the 128th most common female name, making up 0.173% of the population (48.341% of the population is made up of folks named Marjorie or one of the 127 more popular names).<\/p>\n

Katherine <\/b>was the 61st most common female name, making up 0.313% of the population (33.489% of the population is made up of folks named Katherine or one of the 60 more popular names). (“Catherine” was #46, “Kathryn” was #82, “Katharine” was #661.)<\/p>\n

The data is not completely rock-solid, since it is actually taken from the 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey of 377k people in 5,300 blocks to try to determine undercount. The methodology is described here<\/a> (and demonstrates why doing stuff with names is deucedly difficult).<\/p>\n

Cool stuff.<\/p>\n

(via Volokh<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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