Name meme (I got it from bloodyaussie)

[go_team]

Just in case you were wondering:

Tracy is the #291 most common male name.
0.048% of men in the US are named Tracy.
Around 58800 US men are named Tracy!

Tracy is the #108 most common female name.
0.197% of females in the US are named Tracy.
Around 251175 US females are named Tracy!

Tracy is the #1082 most common last name.
0.011% of last names in the US are Tracy.
Around 27500 US last names are Tracy!
source: namestatistics.com

Isn't that interesting? Actually, I think it's kind of weird that they separated names into "male" and "female" but then go on to say that men are named X but females are named X. I care entirely too much about stupid little inconsistencies like that, really I do.

Comments

[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

That website only uses "men" in one place -- in the results returned by the search-script. On the home-page and the FAQ, "male" and "female" are used consistently.

So, why does "men" get used in one line of code of the php script?

I suggest that it's an artifact, just something that slipped through the debugging process. I doubt the author is particularly interested in the actual results, and instead spent lots of spare time tinkering just trying to get it to work. Any outputs (considering it's coded in php) would be an afterthought.

Maybe email the author and point it out as a "bug" :-)

[goteam.livejournal.com]

It does strike me as a typo (easiest explanation, yaddy yadda). Maybe I'll go exploit my copious free time at the poor sap who gets bug emails about that page. Mwah ha hah!