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

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's related to the "woman" as adjective trend? I've fairly often seen "There are woman engineers and male engineers" and similar things.

[amoken.livejournal.com]

Yeah that kinda tripped me up into wondering if they didn't count boys but did count girls. I wonder if they did a search and replace by eye rather than by tool and just missed "men".

There are only twice as many Thorsons as Thorsens in the US. So why the heck does everyone always try to spell it with an 'o' and get all surprised that there could possibly be an 'e' there? Must be the prominence of Johnson and such (2ish mil vs 5K Johnsens).