The Most Common Names For Writers, Librarians, and Poets
If you change your name to Celia or Edmund, you just might become the world’s next great poet.
A recent analysis by Verdant Labs, the maker of the baby-name app Nametrix, tracks the most common names for different professions, from lawyers to librarians.
“These names are most disproportionately common in these professions (not to be confused with the most common),” the Washington Post points out. “For example, ‘Trey’ is the #1 guitarist name, which means that Trey shows up very often in that profession relative to Trey’s overall popularity.”
Mark Edmond, founder of Verdant Labs, says he wasn’t exactly surprised by the list results:
“On the contrary, it’s the reverse that’s astonished me; I’m amazed at how well the names fit their professions. I wrote the name and profession analysis software purely on a hunch, so it was a ‘eureka!’ moment when I fired it up for the first time and saw the results.
For example, the most disproportionately common writer names seem very fitting.”
#1 – #10: Kate, Harriet, Simon, Graham, Colin, Edith, Emma, Frances, Julian, Abraham
#11 – #20: Louise, Eleanor, Charlotte, Annie, Ian, Helen, Lucy, Alice, Edgar, Dorothy
Here are the disproportionately common names for other literary gigs on the list:
Poet – Edgar, Hannah, Celia, Anne, Dorothy, Edmund
Librarian – Abigail, Margot, Nanette, Julia, Eleanor, Johanna
Journalist – Hanna, Gideon, Jonah, Alastair, Angus, Louisa
On the flip side, some non-bookish names include the ones that follow. (Though who’s to say that your friendly neighborhood mechanic, rock ’n’ roll drummer, or stuntman isn’t curling up with My Struggle at the end of the day?)
Mechanic – Randy, Patrick, Dave, Rick, Jerry, Fred
Drummer – Billy, Mickey, Joey, Dave, Tommy, Chad
Stuntman – Alex, Erik, Eddie, Tom, Terry, Ben
See the full chart below or visit Verdant Labs’ website. And note that if you don’t want your kid to become an insurance salesman, steer clear of Garrett, Patty, and Clark.
Top image by Betsy Weber, courtesy of Creative Commons. Chart courtesy of Verdant Labs.
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