Thursday, September 11, 2008

Pimentels around the world

I spent a few minutes today checking out the World Names Profiler on the web. The WNP uses data on 300 million people in 26 countries (which have a total population of 1 billion), so there's definitely a large margin of error here, and Portugal and the Azores are apparently not among the 26 countries, but I thought the results for "Pimentel" were interesting anyway.

Here's a screenshot of the Pimentel world map. If I've done this right, I think you can click on the maps here to see them larger:
As you can see, the USA overall has a "low" frequency of Pimentels. Spain is "high," and presumably Portugal would be, too, if data were available.

Here's a North America map:

No surprise, I guess, that California has a "high" frequency of Pimentels compared with most of the rest of the USA. Massachusetts is also high in Pimentels.

Zooming in a little more:
Those two darkest counties are Merced and Kings.

Some other statistics:
Country Frequency per million

SPAIN 56.99
ARGENTINA 45.46
CANADA 45.39
UNITED STATES 25.17
LUXEMBOURG 17
FRANCE 8.92
NETHERLANDS 3.64
SWITZERLAND 3.19
NEW ZEALAND 2.15
BELGIUM 1.72



Geographical region Frequency per million
QUEBEC, CANADA 179.24
ISLAS CANARIAS, SPAIN 129.99
ANDALUCIA, SPAIN 121.44
MESOPOTAMIA, ARGENTINA 116.6
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 112.05
GALICIA, SPAIN 98.75
MADRID, SPAIN 76.89
MANITOBA, CANADA 67.31
EXTREMADURA, SPAIN 65.63
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA, SPAIN 53.15



Top cities
ASCOT, SOUTH EAST, UNITED KINGDOM
BEAUVAIS, PICARDIE, FRANCE
BRANDON, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
CAMAS, ANDALUCIA, SPAIN
ASHLAND, OREGON, UNITED STATES
CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES
DIAMOND BAR, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES



Top given names
MARY
ANA MARIA
JAVIER
ESPERANZA
SANDRA
MERCEDES
JEAN
RICARDO
JOSE MANUEL
MARIA DOLORES

Fun, huh?

No comments: