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Alexa, Karen, Chad...Yours could be next.

Perhaps the upside of having a biblical name that is shared by 10 million other Americans is that it probably isn't too easy to twist it into an insult.

Edit: that may be an overestimate. Still one of the most popular names in the US, but a more official source (SS) suggests there are no single names which are shared by more than about 5M people.

> a more official source (SS) suggests there are no single names which are shared by more than about 5M people.

You're telling me there are fewer than 5 million Michaels or Johns? I would have thought more.

SS lists the most popular male names in the US over the last 100 years as James (4.7M), John (4.5M), Robert (4.5M), and Michael (4.3M).[1]

Using standard US mortality data, Wolfram Alpha reports estimates of 3.853M and 3.26M for Michael and John respectively, currently alive in the US.[2][3]

[1]: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=michael

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=john

It's even worse if its your surname like Poindexter or something, kinda hard to get a surname nickname.

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