[lit-ideas] Re: Pratts
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:00:47 -0700
David Ritchie wrote
Since I grew up near a place named Pratt's Bottom, and Pratt is not a
name you run across regularly...
It used to be that after I'd given my name for some commercial or
bureaucratic reason, the person who'd asked for it or who was examining
my documents would remark (often accusingly, I felt), 'That's a name you
don't hear very often' (which is, I grant better than being asked 'What
kind of a name is that?').
I thought of this when I read David's words, and decided to do some
quiet research in the Mutton College Library. Here's what I found.
*Surname *
*Rank
in America *
*Estimated number
in America *
*Frequency of Occurrence
out of every
100,000 in population *
*PAUL*
*401*
*72248*
*26.78*
*PRATT *
*500*
*59801*
*22.17*
*RITCHIE <http://names.mongabay.com/data/ri/RITCHIE.html>*
*1131*
*28397*
*10.53*
Robert Paul
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