We got inter·punct!

December 14, 2009 in Namesearch, Statistics | 2 comments

I hadn’t run my letter frequency analyzer on all Popmundo names in a while now, which I do from time to time in order to find those odd (or just plain broken and illegal) names.

Special letters usually stick out like a sore thumb when you break down every name into separate letters and count each how many times they appear. For a human, doing this type of counting by hand would be insane.

In 288,348 names, there is a total of 4,022,233 letters (including spaces, dots, basically anything that takes space horizontally.)
Out of four million letters, there are only 158 unique ones:
Ė 1 ľ 1 し 1 ご 1 さ 1 ? 1
М 1 Ū 1 · 1 Þ 1 ら 1 ゆ 1
で 2 あ 2 け 2 じ 2 ん 2 ð 2
Ą 3 き 3 ろ 3 þ 5 ù 5 ひ 6
À 6 ű 7 Ő 8 œ 10 Ţ 10 ì 10
à 19 . 20 , 20 Ć 23 Õ 25 Ø 26
Ó 31 Ä 34 Ż 35 Ś 37 Â 39 ò 45
ő 47 Ú 47 ß 59 ’ 67 ź 67 đ 71
Đ 73 ´ 76 æ 83 Í 89 Ł 93 ń 98
ï 113 Ž 120 ą 126 ę 127 Å 127 ţ 135
ż 137 ś 144 õ 162 û 201 Š 206 Č 210
ë 249 É 258 å 314 ø 358 ê 381 ž 402
ô 424 ă 431 î 449 è 581 Á 724 ñ 833
‘ 878 š 903 ł 916 Ü 924 ū 948 â 970
ú 982 č 1113 ã 1184 Q 1543 ć 1588 X 1662
ä 1697 q 2508 ó 3118 - 3166 U 3577 Ş 3891
x 4277 İ 4380 Ç 4601 ė 4704 á 5075 í 5430
Ö 5609 Z 6281 ö 6459 é 7278 W 8287 I 8466
j 8493 w 9889 ç 10127 O 10899 ğ 11410 V 11534
Y 11968 ş 13519 f 15612 N 16635 F 17522 H 21571
P 22442 J 22456 R 23374 ü 23900 T 24351 p 24606
ı 25901 L 25979 E 26900 D 28964 K 31164 G 32232
b 33843 C 36470 v 38267 B 40795 z 42677 g 46002
S 48279 M 48344 A 59444 h 62611 y 63447 c 63622
k 67516 m 73191 d 88623 u 112437 t 126844 s 127070
o 182954 l 204371 r 257355 i 259978 n 262577 322280
e 328487 a 442350
Unsurprisingly, the most common letters are a, e, n, i, r… Even in an international game like Popmundo, those letters dominate.
I’m not going to go extensively into the list this time, but I want to point out the small little dot that has appeared into the list:
The little boy who has this name since October 24, 2009 is Apol·linar Tortora.


Most common first names

David : 1124
John : 842
Paul : 738
Michael : 697
Emma : 659
Emily : 623
Zeynep : 592
Anna : 586
Kevin : 584
Pınar : 572
Daniel : 563
Mark : 561
Su : 535
Scott : 529
Danny : 524
Alex : 520
Jessica : 510
Elizabeth : 485
Chris : 483
Andy : 471
Isabella : 470
Stephen : 468
Hande : 467
Grace : 465
Ava : 463
Özlem : 462
James : 461
Olivia : 461
Rachel : 457
Ian : 451
Simin : 447
Steve : 447
Samantha : 445
Madison : 439
Peter : 438
Sezen : 430
Sophia : 427
Eva : 418
Laura : 415
Lauren : 410
Amanda : 402
Robert : 401
Alexis : 398
Alan : 395
Baby : 395
Matthew : 393
Abigail : 385
Hannah : 377
Brian : 376
Jonathan : 374
José : 368
Ada : 364
Gary : 364
Aslı : 361
Richard : 355
Yasemin : 351
Sarah : 348
Isabel : 346
Megan : 345
Sydney : 342
Nisan : 340
Chloe : 336
Christopher : 334
Ege : 333
Deniz : 329
Nil : 329
Başak : 328
Victoria : 326
Lee : 323
Emre : 322
Neil : 321
Yaprak : 316
Seda : 315
Dean : 313
Manuel : 310
Ekin : 305
Thomas : 305
Andrea : 304
Jason : 300
Ana : 295
Seçkin : 292
Mehtap : 291
Ogün : 291
Demir : 289
Özge : 288
Tuba : 287
Morgan : 283
Jamie : 282
Brianna : 281
Gabriel : 280
Darren : 272
Oya : 269
Berrak : 267
Ece : 267
Eric : 266
Diana : 265
Efe : 262
Paco : 262
Gavin : 258
Sandra : 258


Most common family names

Williams : 414
Johnson : 405
Taylor : 404
Şahin : 400
Murray : 324
Çetin : 304
Arslan : 300
Yıldız : 300
Kaya : 293
Yılmaz : 289
Jackson : 269
Rüştü : 268
Koç : 262
Duran : 256
Martin : 256
Kılıç : 253
Küçük : 248
Alemdar : 247
Karahan : 246
Evans : 245
Özdal : 239
Karahanlı : 238
Cullen : 236
Aktaş : 234
Campbell : 224
Manisalı : 222
Tuna : 217
Edwards : 216
Kahraman : 213
Şen : 213
Çakar : 212
Sever : 210
Avcı : 209
Yakın : 206
Doğan : 204
Durukan : 203
Yüksel : 203
Scott : 202
Thomas : 202
Yıldırım : 200
Kaynar : 199
Gercek : 197
Aydın : 194
Coşkun : 194
Gelik : 194
Aksoy : 189
Anık : 189
Vargın : 189
Yücel : 188
de Oliveira : 187
Bursa : 186
James : 186
Coşar : 185
López : 185
Ward : 185
Akyol : 184
Berkes : 184
Hughes : 182
Murat : 179
dos Santos : 179
Black : 177
Genç : 177
Keskin : 177
Harris : 176
Gündüz : 173
İzmir : 173
Güzelyurt : 172
Erkan : 171
Topaloğlu : 171
Tural : 171
Göztepeli : 170
Hoca : 170
Türktaş : 170
Şirin : 167
Yeğin : 166
Çolak : 166
Silva : 165
King : 164
Göztepe : 163
Clark : 162
Güzelizmir : 162
Tatlıses : 162
Korkmaz : 161
Müge : 161
Akut : 160
Avcıbaşı : 160
Gonçalves : 159
Orga : 159
Rodrigues : 157
Özkan : 157
Karabekir : 155
Oransayoğlu : 155
Ruiz : 154
Satan : 154
Üstün : 154
Şekercioğlu : 154
Ersoy : 153
Murphy : 153
de Carvalho : 153
İlker : 152
  1. Rihards’s avatar

    Rihards on December 16, 2009 at 16:15

    What about least used first names? For those of us who want our children to be as unique as possible?

    Though I’m guessing there will be a lot of them in Arabic and Turkish lists since those name lists are quire long when compared to other languages.

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    1. Alanas Anikonis’s avatar

      Alanas Anikonis on December 23, 2009 at 20:30

      For unique kids you want the list of unused names which I haven’t released to the public ;)

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