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Alexa, Karen, Chad...Yours could be next.
by whoisjuan 6y ago
Alexa, Karen, Chad...Yours could be next.
- polka_haunts_us 6y agoIt's even worse if its your surname like Poindexter or something, kinda hard to get a surname nickname.
- rootusrootus 6y agoPerhaps the upside of having a biblical name that is shared by 10 million other Americans is that it probably isn't too easy to twist it into an insult. Edit: that may be an overestimate. Still one of the most popular names in the US, but a more official source (SS) suggests there are no single names which are shared by more than about 5M people.
- whimsicalism 6y ago> a more official source (SS) suggests there are no single names which are shared by more than about 5M people. You're telling me there are fewer than 5 million Michaels or Johns? I would have thought more.
- brbsix 6y agoSS lists the most popular male names in the US over the last 100 years as James (4.7M), John (4.5M), Robert (4.5M), and Michael (4.3M).[1] Using standard US mortality data, Wolfram Alpha reports estimates of 3.853M and 3.26M for Michael and John respectively, currently alive in the US.[2][3] [1]: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html [2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=michael https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=michael [3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=john https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=john