Your bro Chad def votes Republican

What your name says about your voting preference.

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published 20 April 2016

If your buddy's name is Chad, there's about a two-thirds chance he votes Republican and recently donated in the neighborhood of $500 to political campaigns.

In fact, many first names are surprisingly well-coordinated to political preferences, per research from Verdant Labs using Federal Election Commission (FEC) data. While a lot of names are relatively neutral, some, like Chad and Brittany for Republicans or Dylan and Kate for Democrats, are significantly tilted in one direction or the other.

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(Washington Post)

Want to see where your own name stacks up? Verdant Labs' results page is searchable, so you can see if your political preferences match your name.

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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.