What’s In A (Slutty) Name Part II Electric Boogaloo

Here we continue mildly interesting experiments with the Slut-O-Meter. Today we investigate the questions: Is a less common name sluttier than a more common name?

Well here is the theory: Dawn is sluttier than Amanda, Crystal sluttier than Emily, and Leandra sluttier than Jessica. It makes sense to me, passes the gut check, but of course is not actually backed by any sort of “facts”. Well, sense this is a thing that doesn’t have any real basis or grounding in any real quantifiable measure, I turn to my favorite instrument of pseudo-science: The Slut-O-Meter.

Here’s the data, with the names taken from the 1986 Social Security Online listing of popular baby names for girls. I used these 1986 instead of a more recent year, because the interest in determining the slut-factor of infant names is of less interest to me than determining the slut-factor of the names of 19-20 year olds.

Name	Popularity Rank	Total Number		Sluttiness
Jessica	1	52,594		20.10%
Sarah	5	28,093		2.76%
Elizabeth	10	19,038		7.35%
Rachel	15	15,423		-9.04%
Laura	20	14,159		0%
Crystal	25	12,685		0.48%
Erin	30	10,057		0.43%
Courtney	35	9,118		1.63%
Lisa	40	7,895		-0.79%
Alicia	45	7,010		15.37%
Kristin	50	5,997		0.93%
Jenna	55	5,410		46.18%
Cassandra	60	4,981		10.21%
Brittney	65	4,590		45.10%
Natasha	70	3,869		9.30%
Diana	75	3,655		-1%
Casey	80	3,421		1.98%
Leslie	85	3,223		-0.90%
Bethany	90	3,080		3.30%
Jasmine	95	2,985		-0.34%
Karen	100	2,791		-1.92%

So this data leads us to the conclusion of absolutely nothing. There is not a clear and discernible pattern with this data set, which points to the fact that maybe I scrap this idea that a weird name is a slutty name. I give my heartfelt apologies to all the Auroras, Dawns, Rains, and Leandras: It was wrong to assume that a girl with a name like that would just give it up. I apologize.