Find out if your name matches your state, job, and politics

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If you know a Jennifer, she's probably in her late 20s or early 30s, while Aunts Linda and Carol are likely turning 65 this year. Thanks to this name/age calculator, it's easy to see when a given name peaked in popularity, a measure which is often a reliable indicator of someone's age.

But names also correlate with professions, states, pop culture events, and even your political leanings:

  • Jobs: Luigi and Bobby are disproportionately likely to drive race cars, while I (Bonnie) apparently missed my calling as an interior decorator.
  • States: Thanks to uneven immigration patterns, Arizona has a lot of Garcias and Montoyas, while my state of Minnesota is packed with Scandinavian surnames like Peterson and Hansen.
  • Culture: Shirley Temple on screen means more Shirleys; Game of Thrones on screen means more Khaleesis. (It's a title, guys! Come on!)
  • Politics: Malik and Natasha lean the furthest left, while Delbert and Brittney are most likely to vote GOP.

Click over to the Washington Post to figure out how well your name fits with your life.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.