Phone Lobster wrote:Yeah, try and run some numbers on it though.
According to, some random site on the internet you pull a WHOPPING 3% of males named robert.
Thats something like 1.5% of your population.
So draw out a "previous author" name, you got a 1.5 out of a Hundred chance of getting Robert.
Draw about 5 "community member names" each with about 1.5 in a hundred chance of getting Robert.
The chances of getting Robert as previous author AND a community member are what? Something like 1 in 1000?
Sorry, but I may just be too parranoid not to side with the odds over some crazy wizo on a power trip.
Edit: of course the chances of just getting ANY name match are significantly higher but heck I'd be amazed if it even pulled close to 1 in 10.
Oh wow! Gee, ok, you've figured me out ...
My real name is Loren. You can ask other posters on this board that have met me at GenCon - it is Loren. Well, since I've been propping WotC, I guess you've already put one and one together - yep, I'm Loren Greenwood. Yep, I run the whole she-bang at WotC! Yeah, I go from message board to message board just propping WotC in my free time since I've just got so much of it. So, tell me kind sir, since you are talking with the leader of WotC, what do you want from us? Now don't be shy ... just say it ... it's your Festivus miracle!
Now, back to reality ... let's not even cover that there have been *numerous* space shuttle astronauts named Loren ... and that's just the name Loren. And I have friends whose real name is Robert that go by other names because in life they wanted to differentiate it.
And, in my search of a name statistics site, this is what I got:
http://www.namestatistics.com/Most Common First Names
1. JAMES
2. JOHN
3. ROBERT
4. MARY
5. MICHAEL
6. WILLIAM
7. DAVID
8. RICHARD
9. CHARLES
10. JOSEPH
11. THOMAS
12. PATRICIA
13. LINDA
14. CHRISTOPHER
15. BARBARA
16. DANIEL
17. PAUL
18. MARK
19. ELIZABETH
20. JENNIFER
emphasis mine wrote:Robert is the #3 most common male name.
3.143% of men in the US are named Robert.
Around 3850175 US men are named Robert!
So Robert is the
THIRD most popular name - with over 3.8 million men
in the US alone. And with all of my sarcasm/seriousness on the name Loren,
it didn't even make the top 100 names. (By the way, Loren is like #376 most popular boys name with a whopping 0.032% of the US male population ...)