Interesting. Don't think I would have gotten that in several million years.

"You're my boy, Blue!!!"

The proper link is: here

Is "Rose" really a color?

And what about "Greene"? Or "Braun" and "Weis"?

I think your analysis may be flawed.

"Is "Rose" really a color?"

Yes.

Really? There's more Blues than Golds? The only Mr. Blue I've ever heard of was in Reservoir Dogs. There's Ari Gold in Entourage, Bruce Gold in Heller's Good as Gold... Gold is a very common name in Imaginationland.

'"Is "Rose" really a color?"

Yes.'

Oh, really. Then what's this?

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/butterflies/butterfly-gallery/pages/YellowRoseNacogdoches3.html

Ah, Kevin.

This article shows that hispanish names have finally broken the top ten.

If that doesn't frighten you, nothing will.

Eggie, old chap, do not dispair - Herspanish names still lag far behind.

Sorry, Eggy, but I call bull*BLEEP* for two reasons.

1) A lot of those Garcias and Martinezes are more than likely AMERICAN CITIZENS. Long time, and at the least, American residents.

2) Not all of them are actually hispanic. A good chunk of those at the least are likely Filipino (I should know considering...well, I have such a 'hispanic' name and am....you're getting the idea here, right?)

Said article also makes a very good point, in that many of those who might strike fear in the hearts of Tancredoites and such very well might not bear the mark of a scary hispanic name, considering how many early immigrants Anglicized their surnames.

It's a conspiracy!

Ham at #2103
Burger at #1668
and Fries at # 3913

Lunchtime!

Not to mention the number of Jews from Russia who Anglicized their names in order to leave Ellis Island.

Good friend of mine was named Butler - Said her grandfather was told by a guard at Ellis that the fastest way to leave was to change his name - Showed him how to spell Butler.

My name is surprisingly popular.

Tan, Teal, Lavender? I've got to get out more often.

Egfart, spaghetti noodles are now a more popular hotdish base than elbow maccaroni. If that doesn't frighten you, nothing will.

What about Goldstein and Brownstein and Frankenstein? Hmmm?

Tan is a Chinese name. Think of novelist Amy Tan.

Teal and Lavender I don't understand either, unless they're way down on the list. I haven't figured out which link gets me a list that goes beyond 1,000, so I can't check. Hard for me to believe that Grey doesn't rank higher than #4,340. Or maybe Kevin omitted it since he already counted Gray?

Kryptik's complaint against Egbert makes no sense. Egbert never said anything about whether the Garcias and Martinezes are American citizens, or even whether they're Hispanic at all. He only said they are Hispanic ("Hispanish") names, which they surely are.

And, combining the themes, Moreno ranks #171, just behind Rose.

#25 Clark
#26 Lewis

Awesome

My spouse's surname isn't even on the list (downloadable from the Census site) of the 151671 names borne by 100 or more people. Which means my child's hyphenated surname is quite likely unique.

Nobody remembers Vida Blue?

Egb*,

Actually, I do find you pretty scary.

Nobody remembers Ben Blue?

How can there be more people named Blue than Tan? That doesn't seem possible.

The fact that "Red" is beneath "Blue" only demonstrates the liberal bias of this list.

Yes! I guessed it. Mostly because I read that NYT article today, so I was in that frame of mind.

Gay is dropping like a rock. Down from 774 to 974 in ten years. Come on Gay people, start having more kids!

Ben Blue?

or whaddabout Vida?

(Charlie Finney, the owner of the A's - a man who also had his hockey team the Seals wearing gold skates - offered him a bonus if he'd change his name to 'True.' True.)

Gosh, according to that poll Bush is more popular than Clinton. Who knew?

... oh ... it's not a poll?

never mind :-}

i don't understand why 4 million last names are held by only ONE person and another 1 million names are held by 2-4 people. Don't they have relatives???

Of course there are going to be errors but not 80% of the last names.

For many years the Philadelphia Eagles had a defensive back named Joe Lavender.

"i don't understand why 4 million last names are held by only ONE person and another 1 million names are held by 2-4 people. Don't they have relatives???"

The answer, in one word - typos.

I recall reading in Secrets of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that Microsoft brought us gray. Prior to that it was grey. That was for modifying color schemes in command.com.

Wow, Orange is below Lavender, at 7,612? Until last year, here in DC 3 of the 13 city council members had color surnames: Kwame Brown, Vincent Gray, and Vincent Orange. Orange is gone now, and no new color came in to replace him, though I was rooting for a couple of Greens who were running. We did have a Mike Brown elected as shadow senator.

Bidrec, what are you talking about? Americans were spelling it "gray" before there was a Microsoft.

I got it, but only because I had already read the article, this morning, you linked to, which had "brown" near the top- the strangest things stick in your head with you never consciously being aware of it.

Yeah, I don't really get "lavender" and "teal" either. They almost sound like names people deliberately changed to sometime in the past, and who prolifically procreated.

FYI: Christ is 4645. Maybe Dan Brown was right...

Do people use surnames based upon popularity?

They were all guys working for Joe Cabot on various "jobs" around town. Also, Mr. Blonde and Mr. Pink. And Mr. Purple - he was on a different "job."

Vida Blue should have replied, "No, but I'll give up half my salary if you change your last name to 'Ninney'."

(I originally typed "my whole salary," but Blue probably would have recognized that Finney would be crazy and cheap enough to do it for that price. Half might be cutting it close, too, come to think of it.)

Q: What does this set have in common: Blue, Gray, Green, Brown?

Not only did my last name make the list, so did my first.
Never thought either was especially common.

I'll be damned, ALL FOUR of my names.

i don't understand why 4 million last names are held by only ONE person and another 1 million names are held by 2-4 people. Don't they have relatives?

Quite possibly not living relatives with the same surname in the United States. Not all relatives share surnames (marriage is a factor here, and people do changing their surname for other reasons, too) or live in the same country, and people do, after all, die.