Behind the Name: Statistics

Statistics automatically generated at 12:44 PST on July 28, 2009.

Grand Total
16399 names

By Gender
8488 masculine names (51.8%)
7260 feminine names (44.3%)
426 masculine or feminine names (2.6%)
224 feminine or masculine names (1.4%)

By Initial Letter
1663 names beginning with A	749 names beginning with J	1214 names beginning with S
762 names beginning with B	757 names beginning with K	782 names beginning with T
933 names beginning with C	816 names beginning with L	113 names beginning with U
729 names beginning with D	1275 names beginning with M	391 names beginning with V
847 names beginning with E	529 names beginning with N	216 names beginning with W
516 names beginning with F	332 names beginning with O	41 names beginning with X
717 names beginning with G	578 names beginning with P	232 names beginning with Y
651 names beginning with H	40 names beginning with Q	240 names beginning with Z
486 names beginning with I	790 names beginning with R

By Length
46 names 2 letters long	3027 names 7 letters long	46 names 12 letters long
505 names 3 letters long	2034 names 8 letters long	9 names 13 letters long
1785 names 4 letters long	1052 names 9 letters long	4 names 14 letters long
3485 names 5 letters long	417 names 10 letters long	2 names 15 letters long
3847 names 6 letters long	140 names 11 letters long

By Category
304 African names	40 Galician names	3 Mormon names
33 Albanian names	12 Georgian names	875 Mythology names
1073 Ancient names	866 German names	68 Native American names
29 Ancient Celtic names	16 Germanic Mythology names	59 Near Eastern Mythology names
15 Ancient Egyptian names	158 Greek names	8 New World Mythology names
257 Ancient Germanic names	161 Greek Bible names	50 Norse Mythology names
355 Ancient Greek names	288 Greek Mythology names	517 Norwegian names
12 Ancient Irish names	48 Hawaiian names	39 Old Church Slavic names
10 Ancient Near Eastern names	361 Hebrew names	1 Pacific/Polynesian name
231 Ancient Roman names	187 Hebrew Bible names	6 Pacific/Polynesian Mythology names
115 Ancient Scandinavian names	127 Hindu Mythology names	7 Pakistani names
60 Anglo-Saxon names	100 History names	1 Pet name
6 Anglo-Saxon Mythology names	360 Hungarian names	476 Polish names
677 Arabic names	66 Icelandic names	10 Popular Culture names
48 Armenian names	76 Igbo names	463 Portuguese names
12 Astronomy names	518 Indian names	8 Provençal names
5 Azerbaijani names	1 Indigenous Australian name	71 Roman Mythology names
163 Basque names	41 Indonesian names	232 Romanian names
522 Biblical names	133 Iranian names	478 Russian names
4 Bosnian names	595 Irish names	776 Scandinavian names
34 Breton names	85 Irish Mythology names	342 Scottish names
229 Bulgarian names	811 Italian names	239 Serbian and Croatian names
86 Catalan names	259 Japanese names	11 Slavic Mythology names
15 Celtic Mythology names	481 Jewish names	327 Slovene names
76 Chinese names	19 Judeo-Christian Legend names	69 Southern African names
13 Cornish names	9 Kazakh names	757 Spanish names
5 Corsican names	17 Khmer names	538 Swedish names
376 Czech and Slovak names	18 Korean names	11 Thai names
514 Danish names	6 Kurdish names	10 Theology names
536 Dutch names	3 Kyrgyz names	2 Tibetan names
54 Eastern African names	28 Late Greek names	2545 Traditional English names
26 Egyptian Mythology names	195 Late Roman names	152 Turkish names
3822 English names	162 Latin Bible names	75 Ukrainian names
53 Esperanto names	58 Latvian names	51 Unknown names
53 Estonian names	74 Literature names	67 Various names
6 Far Eastern Mythology names	91 Lithuanian names	52 Vietnamese names
1 Filipino name	44 Macedonian names	325 Welsh names
465 Finnish names	11 Manx names	53 Welsh Mythology names
19 Finnish Mythology names	28 Maori names	181 Western African names
677 French names	74 Medieval names	112 Yiddish names
48 Frisian names	362 Modern English names	65 Yoruba names

By Form
241 Anglicized forms	1299 feminine forms	113 original forms
180 cognate forms	208 Latinized forms	1404 diminutive forms
159 combination forms	124 masculine forms	766 short forms
47 elaborated forms	219 modern forms	2354 variant forms

Miscellaneous Information
16372 (99.8%) names have been assigned a usage
6146 (37.5%) names have been assigned a pronunciation
11037 make reference to other names
3863 names are referenced by other names
5461 name definitions contain meanings (double quotes)
3742 name definitions contain name elements (italics)