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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Shortest baby names
We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880.
There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.
Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially
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