How Democratic is your name?

[morgieb]

Mick (the name I usually go by):

• 50.8% Republican/49.2% Democratic

Is "Mick" the most impartial name?

EDIT: "Norbert" (in the header at the top) is 50.5% Republican/49.5% Democratic

My name was exactly 50/50, and my brother's name is pretty close too.

[Supersonic]

Harry.

50.9% Republican.

[jimrtex]

The most Republican name I can find is Tagg at 69.6%, the most Democratic name I found is Shaniqua at 89.2%.

Most Republican common name (1343rd) that I can find is Boyd.

59.2% R.
53.6% have a gun.
61.4% attend church weekly.
38.7% chew tobacco.
78.2% say NASCAR is their favorite sport.

Gordon (409th) is 56.5% Republican

Jack (148th) is 55.6% Republican

Randall (275th) is 59.5% R

Hunter is 59.5% R, but only 48.2% have guns.

Pacific is 54.8% D. but 52.7% have guns.

Donald (26th) is 55.1% R

Peeter is 64.1% R.

[jimrtex]

No Dweezil's.  Does that mean that Mr.Zappa is not registered?

[ilikeverin]

The most Republican name I can find is Tagg at 69.6%, the most Democratic name I found is Shaniqua at 89.2%.

Most Republican common name (1343rd) that I can find is Boyd.

59.2% R.
53.6% have a gun.
61.4% attend church weekly.
38.7% chew tobacco.
78.2% say NASCAR is their favorite sport.

Gordon (409th) is 56.5% Republican

Jack (148th) is 55.6% Republican

Randall (275th) is 59.5% R

Hunter is 59.5% R, but only 48.2% have guns.

Pacific is 54.8% D. but 52.7% have guns.

Donald (26th) is 55.1% R

Peeter is 64.1% R.

With numbers like that, I feel like Douglas (90th most common, 57.3% R) is probably the most Republican name in the top 100, no?

[muon2]

I am amused to find that there are actually 132 registered voters in their database named Muon. I might ascribe that to parents who are scientists, but only 50.2% have a college degree which doesn't fit the pattern of the children of parents with advanced education. Is the name used in some foreign language?

[Bojack Horseman]

55.3% R/47.7% D

48.9% own a gun (Nope)
57% attend religious services weekly (Hell no!)
50.4% have a college degree (Working on that one)

[jimrtex]

With numbers like that, I feel like Douglas (90th most common, 57.3% R) is probably the most Republican name in the top 100, no?

Yes.  Using the Census Bureau's 1990 list of popular male and female names, and going down to 70 male and 80 female, and then using the SSA list of popular names from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s I compiled a list of the top 100 names: 49 male, 51 female, though 9 of the top 10 are male.  Most male names are very traditional, while female names tend to be much more fashionable, going in and out of favor.  But because so many boys have traditional names, common names are more frequent among girls.

Based on the 1990 data, the 10th most common female name would be 21st if male, the 20th female would be 35th male, but the 50th female would be 46th male, and the 100th female would be 89th male.

Most Republican Top 10 is Thomas (9th) 54.1% (possible aversion to Blacks having a Tom in the family?).  Among the top 10 names, Joseph is the only Democratic name at 49.6%.  This probably indicates a greater frequency among Catholics, including Hispanics, who were christened in the local language.

Top 20 Republican is Mark (20th) 54.7%.

Republican over 55%:

Donald (26th) 55.1%
Jeffrey (36th) 55.3%
Gary (47th) 55.9% (Gary, Larry, Barry, etc. were popular in the 1940s and 1950s, and atypical for a male name to come and go in frequency.  I suspect that the -y ending gave a sense of a diminutive, perhaps suitable for a boy, but not a man.  The Republican-ness may reflect an aging population.  Among the top 10 male names other than Joseph, Michael is the least Republican at 51.4%, reflecting its more recent heightened popularity.
Scott (54th) 57.2%
Douglas (90th) 57.3%

Perhaps Donald, Scott, and Douglas represent a Scotch, Scotch-Irish influence not transmitted to the Black or later ethnic communities?

Top 100 male names that are Democratic:

Joseph (10th) 49.6%
Anthony (35th) 42.6%
George (38th) 49.8%
Jose (44th) 26.5%
Edward (47th) 48.7%
Eric (58th) 47.6%
Frank (76th) 48.8%
Peter (85th) 49.3%
Jonathan (86th) 49.1%
Raymond (91st) 48.8%
Nicholas (96th) 49.6%

The only top 100 female name that is Republican is Julie (80th) and 51.1%.

Over 49% Republican are:

Susan (21st, 8th Female) 49.7%
Donna (46th) 49.6%
Carol (50th) 49.5%
Rebecca (62nd) 49.1%
Janet (83rd) 49.3%
Heather (78th) 49.3%

So are some named after presidential daughters Julie Nixon and Susan Ford?  Doro(thy) Bush was 29 by the time her father was president, though her 2nd wedding took place at Camp David, and Barbara and Jenna were entering college when their father was being elected.  Carolina and Chelsea are somewhat Democratic than average, but that might be entirely due to their being female names.

[jimrtex]

I am amused to find that there are actually 132 registered voters in their database named Muon. I might ascribe that to parents who are scientists, but only 50.2% have a college degree which doesn't fit the pattern of the children of parents with advanced education. Is the name used in some foreign language?

Greek?

I found a Chamnan Muon, who in his blog says he is Muon Chamnan.

Nguyen Muon Thi is (was?) a woman soccer player for the Vietnamese women national team.

Muon Srey, originally from Cambodia died in Faribault, Muonesota in 2012.

Pol Pot's 2nd wife was named Muon.

[muon2]

I am amused to find that there are actually 132 registered voters in their database named Muon. I might ascribe that to parents who are scientists, but only 50.2% have a college degree which doesn't fit the pattern of the children of parents with advanced education. Is the name used in some foreign language?

Greek?

I found a Chamnan Muon, who in his blog says he is Muon Chamnan.

Nguyen Muon Thi is (was?) a woman soccer player for the Vietnamese women national team.

Muon Srey, originally from Cambodia died in Faribault, Muonesota in 2012.

Pol Pot's 2nd wife was named Muon.

So it's from SE Asia then. The Greek word is just mu, with the -on suffix added by scientists in the 20th century.

[Vega]

My name is Durbin, which is 52.2% Republican; and 47.8% Democratic.

[Indy Texas]

Way off for Florida: 77-23 D

Well yeah...



("Good TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!")

[Cassius]

Ian - 55.9 percent Democratic
Francis (middle name) - 51.6 percent Democratic
Geoffrey (second middle name) - 50.2 percent Republican

Bizarrely, apparently there are nearly 10,000 people called 'Dung', and 16 are called 'Bubbles' (in my view, a cat's name).

Also, got bored and chose to put the name of the vast majority of Roman Emperors through the database. This is what I got:

Augustus: 64.2 percent Democratic
Tiberius: 64.4 percent Democratic
Claudius: 77 percent Democratic
Nero: 77 percent Democratic
Otho: 52.5 percent Democratic
Titus: 65.7 percent Democratic
Nerva: 75.3 percent Democratic
Trajan: 59.1 percent Democratic
Hadrian: 66.2 percent Democratic
Antoninus (Pius): 64.2 percent Democratic
Marcus (Aurelius): 67.4 percent Democratic
Julius (Didius): 67.9 percent Democratic
Geta: 64.2 percent Democratic
Alexander (Severus): 56.4 percent Democratic
Gordian: 64.8 percent Democratic
Philip: 53.4 percent Republican
Decius: 88.3 percent Democratic
Valerian: 54 percent Democratic
Aurelian: 53.9 percent Democratic
Tacitus: 53.4 percent Republican
Florian: 54.3 percent Democratic
Carus: 59.9 percent Democratic
Constantine: 54.6 percent Democratic
Julian: 66.2 percent Democratic
Jovian: 71.5 percent Democratic
Valens: 75.7 percent Democratic
Gratian: 55.5 percent Democratic
Theodosius: 72.9 percent Democratic
Arcadius: 59.5 percent Democratic
Joannes: 65.3 percent Democratic
Marcian: 60.6 percent Democratic
Romulus (Augustulus): 56.3 percent Democratic

[Hash]

All of 1,255 people have my name (more people are named 'Adolf') and they're 61.7% D. I guess those with my first name in the US are mostly Hispanic.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

About 56% D, but there were only around a hundred or so.

[politicus]

No less than 521 voters have my name, 2/3 of them Democrats (66,7%), they are well armed (54,6% gun owners)  and well educated (48,5 % finished college), but only 27,6% goes to church - so likely Mid Western Scandinavians. The English version (Josephine) is slightly less Democratic with 62,3%. A lot of Irish Catholics among them, I suppose.

[jimrtex]

3,647,373 share my first name, 52.9% R, 85th percentile.  A majority have each of the three social characteristics, which I have none of.

23,410 have my middle name first, 47% R, 53rd percentile, better educated, less religious and less armed.

17,911 have my last name first, 50.8% R, which may reflect the ambiguous gender of the name (it was 67th most common girl name, and 107th most common boy name in the 2000s).  It is the most religious name.

680 persons have my elddim eman delleps sdrawkcab, they are very Democratic, 64.2%, well educated 61.3%, and irreligious 33.3%.

673 persons have my first name spelled backwards, they are extremely Democratic, 84.2% (99th percentile), less educated 44.4%, not particularly religious, 37.8% nor armed 46.8%.

All formed of my names with the first or last letter truncated are in the data base,

Firs 1201
irst 486
Middl 407
iddle 25
Las 33
ast 146

as well of 5 of the 6 forms with the two letters truncated (only the first name with the first two letters chopped is missing).

Fir 398
rst (less than 10)
Midd 138
ddle 6122
La 15
st 156

All forms with the first and last are missing, though the middle 3 letters of my middle and last name are the same.

irs 598
iddl (and as) 38

All forms with the first or last two letters are represented. 

Fi 1391, st (and le) 17, Mi 6017, La 432, st 50.

[7,052,770]

Harry.

50.9% Republican.

Between 50 and 51% for gun ownership, religious attendance, and college degree. A perfect middle of the road name.

[Sir John Johns]

Erwan
51 registered voters.
71.8 % D/28.2% R

41.1% have a gun in their house
27.9% attend religious services weekly
63.9% have a college degree

[Flake]

Jacob: 53-47 GOP
Flo: 53-47 Dem

[Princess Nyan Cat]

My first name gets 45.1% R / 54.9% D.

Surprisingly, 94 people are registered as "Nyan"! -- 25.5% R / 74.5% D.

[HAnnA MArin County]

Ugh, Cody.

56.7% Republican, 43.3% Democratic

*45.6% have a gun in their house (I don't)
*60.1% attend religious services weekly (I don't)
*46.3% have a college degree (I do)

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[Cranberry]

Fabian

72,3% Democratic (yay)
27,7% Republican

*48,8% - have a gun in the house (I don't)
*45,3% - attend religious weekly service (just on Christmas)
*49,1% - have a college degree (not yet)

[BigSkyBob]

75% of those named Hitler are registered Republican, while 75% of those named Gandhi or Jesus are registered Democrats.
Does that mean that Republicans are per definition three times more evil than Democrats? An interesting philosophical question.

Also, 82% named Obama are Democrats. 67% named Glory are Democrats. A clear majority of those named Hope are Democrats.

The Democrats do especially well with Lucifer.

Daffy had a strong Democratic lean as well.

[publicunofficial]

Bizarrely, apparently there are nearly 10,000 people called 'Dung', and 16 are called 'Bubbles' (in my view, a cat's name).

You're forgetting two of the best fictional characters ever.