What First Initial Is Most Common Among Your Friends?

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This came up over the weekend, as a friend of mine was trying to use her mobile. She said that she had so many friends with the initial "S" that she had to page through dozens of Sarahs and Steves to find the right number.

Now I don't have a problem with "S" - but I do have a disproportionate amount of entries under "M". (Possibly due to all the Marks, Matts, Marys, etc. that I know.)

What initial is most common in your phone? And what names are responsible?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

D, cos of about 10 Daves or Davids. 30 ds in my phone altogether, from dad to domhnaill.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. I actually have 10 D's, but I only know one David. (Well enough to have a phone number at least.) However, I am troubled by Darrens. I also have 10 J's.

12 M's! But only 11 S's.

I don't know any people whose names start with I or O or Q. Or U. Or X or Y.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

C and E are also popular at 8 each.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have many numbers in my phone but S and C are relatively well-represented amongst my friends and family: Sarah, Simon, Steve, Sophie, Saul, Sam, Cat, Charles, Clare, Clarissa...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Loads of C's & J's!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Amber, Alice, April, Amanda, Alexandra....

Often enough, someone says "Andrew!" which isn't anybody's name, but everyone looks round.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, there's a high proportion of Margarets in my family. Though the only one in my phone is in there as "Mum" which is an M as well.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a fair few M's aswell!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I just did this:
A = 6, B = 0, C = 9, D = 2, E = 2, F = 0, G = 0, H = 1, I = 1, J = O, K = 1, L = 4, M = 7, N = 3, O = 0, P = 5, Q = 0, R = 1, S = 9, T = 2, U = 0, V = 2, W = 0, X = 0, Y = 0, Z = 0.

Can this be made into a graph?

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, no, I had to spend most of yesterday making demographic data into graphs...

In fact, OH NO!!! demographic data is eating my brain if I've started thinking about this on any kind of deep level, the demographics of first initials, and whether or not people near the beginning of the alphabet really do better than those near the end...

(My friend reckons this is true, but then again, his surname starts with an A, so I think he's biased.)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Loads of C's & J's!

Those are good letters :)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The B's thing is always potentially embarassing. For a while I was always dating a B-named fellow and always calling him Ben or Brandon, which was never his name, but rather one of the names of my two best friends.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Amber is "Amber Amy", and Alice is "Alice Ella" too.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I had to go to last names on my phone because of all of the Jim's, John's, James's, Jason's, Josh's, etc.

Oh, and I've got Kevin's galore as well.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

B & K (including 3 Kris's)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

S & M - on my old phone I had 14 of each, though when I lost it I lost most of both letter. L is also popular.

I do have "Munal" under M though, which is my local and wonderful curry house.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I have lots of Ms and they are literally *all* Matts or Marks I think. You're taking over the world!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a British thing.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Those are good letters :)

Indeed! :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

A = 10
B = 3
C = 5
D = 4
E = 6
F = 1
G = 1
H = 2
J = 8
K = 9
L = 1
M = 14
N = 3
P = 3
R = 1
S = 9
T = 3
V = 1
Z = 1

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, you all have a lot of friends.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Js and Ms.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I have like about 10 people's numbers in my phone.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I should have three L's...sorry Lisa and Laylah!

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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