With 200 million profiles revealing personal data about sex, religion, political views, and marital status, Facebook is a social scientist’s dream. If that personal information is gold, Facebook is rich with it, and not all of it’s protected by privacy settings, either.
Rapleaf, a Web search solutions provider, searched over 100 million public profiles to find the most common names on Facebook, tallying up the most popular first names, last names, and finally full names.
Only one female name shows up on the list; ‘Maria’ at number ten. Unsurprisingly, the most common first name is ‘John,’ with over a million found profiles, ‘David’ and ‘Michael’ coming in at second and third, respectively. ‘Mike’ is apparently the fifth most popular, though, so if nicknames weren’t counted as unique, ‘Michael’ would be number one.
Direct to Complete List (via Rapleaf)
Sources: Switched.com (via TechCrunch)
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