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> Here's a chart with 6 of the names that are the most disproportionately common in 37 professions.

It doesn't say they're the top 6, just that they're "6 of" -- and having worked with a lot of similar data sets in the past, the results here feel a little overly edited (i.e. exaggerated, stereotyped) to me. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.



http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/05/23/nametrix-2/

There they list the actual top 5 for some professions. Having read that, I am inclined to agree with you here.

The top 6 for car salesmen in that graph has literally only one name (Clay) that is in the actual top 5 and even that was only 5th. The top 4 names (Emmett, Luther, Emanuel, Morton) all got replaced with stereotypical white working class guy names.

The top 6 for surgeon in the graph has no female names yet the actual most disproportionately common name for surgeons is 'Vivienne'.




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