Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
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Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
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Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#2You can read about why we developed the app here:
http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#3Heat map of population? Are these figures per-capita (Josephs per citizen instead of totals)
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#4Heat map of population? Are these figures per-capita (Josephs per citizen instead of totals)
Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#5The 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.
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#6The 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.
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.
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#7The 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.
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.
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.
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.
Re: Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
#9My 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....