Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Surname Incidence

From Freakonomics, here is a list of the most common surnames in the United States. (The linked page gives the first thousand, though is looks like they link all the way through 49,000.) How common are we here at TPS?

Luther - #2,438
Ross - #89
Ryan - #177
Schaeffer - #2,156
Skarbek - #53,047
Williamson - #245

2 comments:

Edward J. Lopez said...

Why am I not surprised: Lopez is #21 at 230/100,000. I would say that's pretty rico, suave.

audio editor said...

That's funny that such names were popular in 2009 because according to researches of 2010 and 2011 the two most popular names among boys and girls are Bella and Jacob. More and more kids are named these days after Twilight characters.