Amusing Stats on My Name

[shannon_a]

From http://www.pdom.com/

• The Girl's Name Shannon is shared by ~246,400 people in the USA.
  
• The Boy's Name Shannon is shared by ~53,900 people in the USA.
  
• The Last Name Appelcline is not common in the US and if it exists, the shared population is less than 300.
  
• The First_Name + Last_Name Shannon Appelcline is not common in the US, with a shared population of around 0 - 10 individuals.
  
• The First Name, Last Initial Shannon A is shared by ~14,500 people in the USA.
  
• The First_Initial + Last_Name S Appelcline is not common in the US, with a shared population of around 0 - 10 individuals.
  

And from http://www.placesnamed.com:

• Shannon is the 123rd most popular female first name in the United States; frequency is 0.175%; percentile is 47.473 [SourceCBN]
  
• Shannon is the 317th most popular male first name in the United States; frequency is 0.040%; percentile is 79.462 [SourceCBN]
  

Finally, looked at the parts of my last name on placesnamed:

• Appel is the 4,654th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.003%; percentile is 62.382 [SourceCBN]
  
• Cline is the 595th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.020%; percentile is 37.200 [SourceCBN]
  

Sounds like kimberly_nlts wins;).


I find it somewhat nice to know that there are another 50,000 guys in the United States who also had to hear taunts of "Shannon is a girl's name; Shannon is a girl's name" while growing up. Though I wonder how many of them started going by "Shan" or "Sean" or "Bruce" when they were in Jr. High.

I find it somewhat sad that the 123rd most popular female name has already dropped to .175% frequency and that we're already down to the 47th percentile. That's a damned lot of conformity in this country. But then among the 8 or 9 people who game at my place on Saturdays there are 3 Davids and 2 Erics, so I shouldn't be surprised. (And, looking at placesnamed stats a little more, it appears that one out of ten men in the US is named either James [#1], John [#2], or Robert [#3]. You should have one in your fairly immediate family.)

Comments

RoR

[(Anonymous)]

It is I the RoR game and your name is not that of a girls but of a river a weak polluted river that the vomit of a thousand Irishmen have ended up in. Sissy It is not a manly name explaining why you have already cowered from the humiliation of having been defeated by me a, Republic of Rome Game.

Regards,

RoR