Name statistics revised

May 28, 2009 in Namesearch, Statistics | No comments

So I wasn’t entirely happy with the statistics of yesterday and cleaned up my routines. The two names with ‘?’ in them have been fixed by the devs so I updated my name database to contain these fixes also. Also as promised, I am listing most common names today.

Please comment and ask if you need clarification on something, and if you have suggestions for what kinds of numbers you would like to see… If there’s anyone out there crazy for numbers! ;)

Unique letters: 158
Total letters: 5,050,712
Ė 1 ľ 1 し 1 ご 1 さ 1 こ 1
М 1 Ū 1 Þ 1 Ð 1 ら 1 ゆ 1
で 2 あ 2 け 2 ん 2 ð 2 き 3
じ 3 À 3 ろ 3 ひ 6 þ 7 ű 10
Ţ 10 ì 10 ù 10 Ő 11 Ą 12 œ 13
à 15 , 24 . 26 Ø 27 Õ 27 Ó 35
Ż 36 Ä 40 Ć 42 ò 47 Ś 52 Â 53
ő 60 Ú 62 ź 71 ’ 74 ´ 78 ß 79
đ 96 Đ 98 Í 98 ń 100 Ł 107 ż 110
æ 111 ţ 121 ą 138 ï 144 ś 150 Ž 158
ę 162 Å 166 õ 192 û 248 Č 251 Š 291
É 327 ë 340 å 359 ă 432 ø 471 ê 474
ô 506 ž 572 î 594 è 808 Á 917 ñ 983
‘ 1000 ł 1078 š 1164 ū 1185 ú 1241 â 1276
Ü 1354 č 1456 ã 1473 Q 2000 ä 2152 ć 2204
X 2347 q 3173 - 3882 ó 3939 U 4588 x 4941
Ş 5486 ė 5919 İ 6075 á 6244 Ç 6298 í 6797
Ö 7641 Z 8396 ö 8733 é 9320 W 9852 I 10378
j 10881 w 11453 ç 13720 O 13752 V 14349 ğ 15559
Y 16073 ş 18541 f 19541 N 21036 F 21908 J 27379
H 27398 P 28234 R 28713 p 30823 T 31507 L 32132
ü 32738 E 33818 ı 34652 D 36002 K 39844 G 41138
b 42628 C 44038 v 48194 B 50949 z 55166 g 57934
M 60218 S 60563 A 74472 h 78056 c 78857 y 79564
k 86675 m 93016 d 110025 u 142679 s 156598 t 158323
o 225843 l 255643 r 321823 i 325583 n 329765 404212
e 412125 a 554485
Number of names: 363,088
Different firstnames: 13,504
Different familynames: 42,008
Name minimum length: 5
Name maximum length: 48
Mean: 13.91 characters/name
Standard deviation: 3.41
Skewness: 1.325
Variance: 11.626

Long names

Anastácia de Oliveira Fernandes Teixeira (size: 40)
Miriam Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 41)
Antônio Carlos de Villemor Amaral Guntert (size: 41)
Everaldo Décio da Silveira Camargo Junior (size: 41)
Horácio Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 42)
Antônio Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 42)
Bernardo Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 43)
Vanderley Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 44)
Ann-Kathrin Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 46)
Aleksandrina Eppinghaus Barbalho da Silva Teles (size: 47)
Jean-Christophe Décio da Silveira Camargo Junior (size: 48)

Most common first names

This is the list of most commonly used first names of characters in Popmundo. If you want your child to be special and unique, please avoid using any of these:
(The number is the count of alive characters with the name.)
David : 1322
John : 1034
Paul : 926
Pınar : 835
Michael : 817
Zeynep : 812
Emma : 759
Emily : 750
Kevin : 719
Anna : 685
Su : 682
Mark : 681
Scott : 657
Daniel : 656
Hande : 644
Özlem : 642
Danny : 640
Olivia : 629
Sezen : 594
Peter : 586		 Simin : 571
Chris : 563
Elizabeth : 556
Grace : 553
Alex : 550
Ava : 541
Steve : 539
Stephen : 535
Sophia : 533
Isabella : 524
Laura : 519
Rachel : 518
Yasemin : 514
Madison : 512
Ian : 510
James : 509
Amanda : 497
Alan : 493
Hannah : 490
Aslı : 487		 Gary : 478
Eva : 477
Samantha : 468
Lee : 465
Abigail : 464
Robert : 463
Lauren : 459
Başak : 450
Matthew : 449
José : 446
Sarah : 433
Tuba : 424
Richard : 422
Nisan : 419
Seda : 418
Nil : 416
Ada : 415
Chloe : 413
Manuel : 412
Brian : 411
Out of a total 13,504 different names used in Popmundo, 3,081 of them are unique. Meaning only one alive character has it. The whole list of unique names is a bit too long to post here. I will be creating a service soon enough where people can easily find which name is unique and which is not, out of all available names. Meanwhile you are unfortunately restricted to the  name search engine and Surname search engine

Most common family names

This is the Top 60 list of most common family names inside Popmundo. If you want to be different, don’t marry someone with this name…
(The number is the count of alive characters with the name.)
Şahin : 558
Williams : 477
Johnson : 476
Taylor : 465
Koç : 393
Yılmaz : 392
Murray : 385
Çetin : 381
Rüştü : 380
Arslan : 376
Kaya : 375
Yıldız : 354
Alemdar : 351
Kılıç : 341
Özdal : 327
Duran : 324
Aktaş : 314
Anık : 302
Thomas : 299
Sever : 298
Karahan : 293
Küçük : 292
Karahanlı : 289
Jackson : 287
Çakar : 282
Yücel : 281
Avcı : 280
Martin : 278
Yıldırım : 273
Kahraman : 270
Yüksel : 267
Coşar : 266
Evans : 265
Doğan : 261
Gündüz : 259
Coşkun : 258
Topaloğlu : 255
Gercek : 253
Campbell : 252
Sertel : 250
Edwards : 248
Tural : 247
Vargın : 246
Yeğin : 244
Gelik : 242
Keskin : 236
Aydın : 232
Şirin : 230
Hoca : 228
Aksoy : 227
Tatlıses : 226
Scott : 225
Berkes : 224
Göztepeli : 223
İzmir : 222
Üstün : 220
Gümüştaş : 218
İlker : 217
Övünç : 215
Göztepe : 214
What surprised me the most was the variation of family names (surnames) is far greater than I would have expected. In total there are 42,008 different family names out in the game.
Out of all family names 16,161 are carried by only one character, which means that 38.5% of the characters are unique and the only (alive) bearers of their family name.
Somehow I was expecting less variation.

Number of family names with n characters:

n: 1 => 16,161 (one person with own unique family name)
n: 2 => 6,703 (two people sharing same name)
n: 3 => 3,821 (three people)
n: 4 => 2,386 (etc…)
n: 5 => 1,533
n: 6 => 1,084
n: 7 => 858
n: 8 => 720
n: 9 => 630
n: 10 => 636
…

This list continues all the way to the end
…
n: 476 => 1
n: 477 => 1
n: 558 => 1
(Which is just the the same as Top 60 most common names, but in reverse.)