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What is the most common middle initial in the US?

Question #71166. Asked by Ilona_Ritter.

What-A-Mess
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What-A-Mess

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So actually Frankie you do not have a "middle" name since the "middle" would land somewhere between the two names to which you refer.



Just playing with semantics here. :-)

Oct 04 2006, 8:54 PM
OneLessMarble
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OneLessMarble

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hate to kick up an old thread but I'll dispute the original post of A and S... quite to the contrary...

taking a random sample form census and mixing things up a bit, running with an n=251,869

here's what I found...

9.121% A
3.198% B
4.922% C
9.684% D
8.117% E
2.039% F
2.747% G
2.547% H
0.326% I
6.681% J
2.131% K
15.94% L
6.425% M
1.259% N
1.19% O
1.746% P
0.163% Q
7.536% R
3.825% S
3.598% T
0.066% U
0.86% V
5.572% W
0.024% X
0.198% Y
0.085% Z

So that would make D and L the 2 most common letters... as you'll note A is in contention, but S is far from the top of the list... finally broke down, as this question had been bothering me for quite some time, and wasn't able to find anything concrete. If someone else has done another study of names in this context, contact me... be well.

Aug 04 2010, 2:05 AM
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