Link: Guardian visualises 'What's in a name?'

On the Guardian Data Blog today - What's in a name?. The tagline reads: Is your name linked to your life chances? The Guardian Digital Agency has looked at the first names of doctors, prisoners, football players, Guardian staff and other professions and mapped how often certain names occur.

It's five pages of Venn diagrams, comparing the top 30 names in various professions (company directors, doctors, footballers, Oxford undergraduates etc.). Some of the correlations are perhaps what you would expect (lots of popular male names from 1960-80s amongst the FTSE-company directors), others - like the comparison between male Oxford undergraduates and footballers are a little more interesting.