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8 pointslazy_nerd12y ago8 comments

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My surname is "D'israeli", with the apostrophe. When I try to submit, it just generates a new captcha and says to try again. If I drop the apostrophe, it works fine.

Articles appear fairly regularly about names and assumptions thereof, and as someone doing stats on surnames, I would have hoped that a little punctuation would have been handled just fine....

Trano12y ago

The data for this for uncommon names seems really off.

My last name is uncommon, so the most popular first names shows 10 names, each at 10%, and my name is nowhere on the list. Searching on Google for my last name shows many results about a minor celebrity whose first name is also missing from the list.

On popular names this probably evens out, but for uncommon names I appear to not exist here.

will_work4tears12y ago

Yeah, I wonder about the data itself. A similar site shows that there are 230 people in the US with my last name, and I'm the only one here with my first/last name combo (there is apparently one in Canada). Also my last name is strongly Irish, and it showed no percentage of people in Ireland with my last name, but a lot in GB.

lazy_nerdOP12y ago

Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.

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lazy_nerdOP12y ago

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

JoeAltmaier12y ago

Heat map of population? Are these figures per-capita (Josephs per citizen instead of totals)

lazy_nerdOP12y ago

Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?

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mdisraeli12y ago

My surname is "D'israeli", with the apostrophe. When I try to submit, it just generates a new captcha and says to try again. If I drop the apostrophe, it works fine.

Articles appear fairly regularly about names and assumptions thereof, and as someone doing stats on surnames, I would have hoped that a little punctuation would have been handled just fine....

Trano12y ago

The data for this for uncommon names seems really off.

On popular names this probably evens out, but for uncommon names I appear to not exist here.

will_work4tears12y ago

lazy_nerdOP12y ago

Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.

1 more reply

lazy_nerdOP12y ago

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

JoeAltmaier12y ago

Heat map of population? Are these figures per-capita (Josephs per citizen instead of totals)

lazy_nerdOP12y ago

Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?

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