Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)

Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)(whatsinmyname.prokta.com)

8 points by lazy_nerd 12 years ago | 8 comments

mdisraeli 12 years 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....

Trano 12 years 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_work4tears 12 years 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_nerd 12 years 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.

lazy_nerd 12 years ago |

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

JoeAltmaier 12 years ago |

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

lazy_nerd 12 years ago | |

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