From: tgpedersen
Message: 64922
Date: 2009-08-22
>A couple of years back, the name Brian in Denmark (pronounced /bri:an/, it was loaned early), after someone published data which showed males named Brian to have the highest average number of criminal offences, became the name of a stock character in vaudevilles, TV shows etc.
> At 5:12:44 PM on Saturday, August 22, 2009, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Curiously, I don't run into a large number of
> > stereotypical names, maybe about 10-20&. I do run into a
> > lot of Shauns, Shannons and Devons (male and female), also
> > Eric, Jason, Elizabeth, Ian, Cary, Cory, Brian, Jessica,
> > Houston, Dallas, etc. But most of my students tend to be
> > middle class from the suburbs of DC, Philly and NYC.
>
> A couple of years ago I was amused to find no fewer than
> *four* <Brian>s in a class of not quite 30.
>
> Brian