{"id":410,"date":"2004-01-02T01:43:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/names\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T01:43:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T06:43:37","slug":"names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/names\/","title":{"rendered":"Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting site that tells you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namestatistics.com\/index.php\">how common your name is<\/a>.  For example it claims that 0.736% of men in the US (901,600) are named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namestatistics.com\/search.php?name=Brian\">Brian<\/a>, while roughly 0.001% (2,500) of last names are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namestatistics.com\/search.php?name=Arner\">Arner<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf my math is correct, these percentages suggest there should be approximately 9 Brian Arners in the U.S. [2,500 (Arners) x 49% (males) x 0.736% (Brians)].  But only know of two other Brian Arners.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarnerministries.com\/\">one of them<\/a>.  I just want to clarify that I&#8217;m that guy so you&#8217;ll never make the mistake of asking me to sing for you.  A few times I&#8217;ve received misdirected fan e-mails thanking me for my music or asking about a CD, and I get a kick out of it every time.<br \/>\nLink via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/002232.html\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/names\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Names\"><p>Here&#8217;s an interesting site that tells you how common your name is. For example it claims that 0.736% of men in the US (901,600) are named Brian, while roughly 0.001% (2,500) of last names are Arner. If my math is correct, these percentages suggest there should be approximately 9 Brian Arners in the U.S. [2,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}