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More than you ever wanted to know about the SF members' names [in 1981]
[line]Recently, National provided us with a computer tape containing data on the membership of San Francisco Regional Mensa. At the request of our Assistant LocSec, JoAnn Malina, I provided a printout of the data on the tape. In reviewing this information, a number of interesting facts
61.1402% of the males use titles while 67.11% of the females do so...
A total of 2003 different last names appeared. This means that 290 names were shared by 853 members and there were 1713 unique names. The most common name, as might be expected, is Smith, shared by 17 members. The next most common names were Anderson and Miller (16 members each); Johnson (15 members); Williams, Adams, Brown, and Lewis (11 each); Freeman, Jones, Moore, Taylor, and Wilson (7 each); Cooper, Harris, Holmes, Martin, White, and Young (6 each); Benson, [quoteright]Foster, Hughes, Jackson, Larson, Lee, Patterson, Russell, Stone, and Wong (5 each). Four members each have names of Carlson, Carter, Craig, Davidson, Edwards, Hess, McDonald, Scott, Shaw, Tucker, Walker, and Weiss. Fifty-six last names are shared by three members each, and 183 names are used by two members each.
The most common letter with which last names began is M (272), followed by S (269), B (208), C (199), H (198), W (166), L (134), K (131), P (125), D (117), R (107), and G (102). The least cam= letter was Q (1), followed by U (10), I (12), Z (16), and Y (17). Other letters used in less than 100 names were V, E, N, 0, J, T, A, and F.
Duplications in first names occurred more often with 297 names shared by 2119 members The most common names were John (96); Robert (92); David (77); James (75); William & Wm (65 & 4, respectively); Richard (52); Michael (47); Charles (41); Donald and Thomas (34 each); Mary (29); George and Paul (27 each); Joseph (26); Kenneth and Patricia (25 each); Jack (21); Edward (19); Stephen (18); Barbara, Mark, Peter, and Ronald (16 each); Alan and Susan (15 each), and Dorothy, Frank, Gary, and Nancy (14 each). Initials-only showed up fairly often: C (7), A & W (6 each); H, M, & S (5 each); B & G (4 each); F & L (3 each); and P (2). Some of the less common names that showed up more than once were Beryl, Jamie, Janis, Lila, Luther, Lyle, Lynda, Michele, Myra, Phoebe, Rod, Sari, Tod (not Todd!), and Vivienne (2 each); and Dana, Forrest, Francine, and Hilary (3 each).
Some unusual names which appeared only once were Achilles, Alnair, Burns, Charlienne, Dasja, Daunna, Didi, Dinstan, Elna, Erling, Gaby, Gareth, Gurnam, Gysbert, Flene, Iowan, Jacqui, Jewel, Josefa, Kanwal, Karilon, Kevane, Leilani, Loron, Maris, Meredy, Nika, Panthea, Rajiv, Rathinder, Repha, Roxie, Samir, Sandesh, Teiji, Tertius, Tyanne, Vetrus, Zelda, and Zulema. To balance things out, some fairly common names also appeared once: Amy, Angela, Arnold, Bernadette, Bernard, Caroline, Cecelia, Conrad, Debra, Dianne, Dwight, Ella, Flora, Francis, Geraldine, Hope, Jane, Jeannette, Josephine, Lillian, Lucy, Marsha, Nathaniel, Nelson, Olivia, Oscar, Penny, Rudolph, Violet, Vincent, and Wanda.
A
272
E
165
I
14
M
210
R
141
W
102
B
78
F
69
J
191
N
23
S
111
Y
3
C
119
G
73
K
41
O
22
T
35
Z
2
D
109
H
90
L
205
P
50
V
20
1
DDS
ESQ
JR
70
OHLM
SJ
CLU
ED.D.
II
7
MD
RE
SR
6
EINE
III
11
MM-1
PHD
VM
ATILLA
MAJ
MS
454
REV
ATTY
GENMGR
MASTER
MSGT
SIR
CANTOR
GP LDR
MISS
31
SR ENG
CAPT
LANDMA
MISTER
PLANNR
TS
CLMMGR
LCDR
MJR
PRES
YS
CMDR
LORD
MR
1045
PROF
COL
LT
MR.
RADM
DR
91
LTC
MRS
REGMGR
008
215
415
1111
707
92
916
209
96
408
342
508
714
213
412
613
8051
Rosterology is a new science, discovered this month by Ken Uhland. Ken and his hyperactive computer also create a monthly puzzle section for the SFRM newletter the Intelligencer.
More Articles by Ken Uhland
Back in the 70s the San Francisco regional Mensa organization published a free yearly roster of current members. Due to budget cuts this was discontinued in 1981. The Ecphorizer picked up the project and the SFRM Roster was included as an insert to an earlier issue.
The data making up the roster came on a magnetic tape from the national office. At the time, Ken Uhland was able to read and print the data on that tape, forming the basis for this article.
[Private Note: I hate trying to scan and format pages like this into a format readable by computer browsers. But do it I must. -Tod, 2006]