How Common Is Your Name?

We ran across this pretty cool website that tells you where your first and last name ranks in popularity among the rest of the U.S. population. Check it out where your name ranks here. This is what we found out about our names:

"Chance" is the 2,441st most common last name in the United States out of about 49,000. It occurs in the U.S. population 13,586 times. The top 5 most common last names in order of most common to least are: Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, and Jones. There's about 2,376,206 Smiths running around out there.

"Corinne" is the 554th most common name for a female out of over 4,000 and occurs 36,434 times in the U.S. population. "Carrie" is a little more common and ranks as the 129th most common female name, occurring 259,594 times. The top 5 most common female names are Mary, Patricia, Linda, Barbara, and Elizabeth.

"Nathan" comes in at 108 out of over 1200 male names on the list and occurs 269,908 times. The top 5 most common male names are James, John, Robert, Michael, and William.

There are almost enough Carrie's for all the Nathan's in the United States.

On an interesting side note, there are 32,097 Bert's in the U.S. but only 21,884 Ernie's.

On an even more interesting side note, there are 15,181 Berta's and 13,663 Erna's in the U.S.

On an even more interestingner side note, there are 338,534 Bonnie's and 138,601 Clyde's.

And just in case that wasn't interesting enough, the United States is home to 1,518 women named Claude.