Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?
Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...
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Longest last names
The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each.
There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been
10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...
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Longest baby names
The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters,
from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.
There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte |