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Re:Disproportionately Common Names by Profession by swamp40 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:21AM (#8880740)
It's also possible that football coaches have a tendency to commonize their names - whether to fit in and make their players more relaxed, or maybe they were just raised in solid blue-collar American families.

Their birth certificates could very well read Daniel, William, Michael, James, Richard, Steven.

Similarly, the EE's probably have a tendency to be more formal on their resumes or business cards.

Their family and buddies probably calls them Bernie, Gene, Eddie, Chuck, Freddy, Harv.

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Re:Disproportionately Common Names by Profession by saraid216 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:13PM (#8881538)
The data sources are the FEC and SSA (and Wikipedia, for some reason). Which means that this data is coming off the stuff they submitted to the government for whatever reason.
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Re:Disproportionately Common Names by Profession by madcaptenor on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:42PM (#8881679)
I work with a software engineer named Charles and a project manager named Eugene. They go by Chuck and Gene, respectively.
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