How many people with the each of the following names do you currently know?

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(I am aware that it's hard to define 'knowing' someone, and you may chose to interpret it in your own way. However, if you wish guidelines, they are as follows: either someone you know really well, like a good friend or a family members, somebody you can just call up to chat, somebody you meet on diurnal basis.)

What I have compiled here is the 10 most common first names in North America. What you have to do for each name is tell me how many from each name you know (eg. I know four Daves).

The names:
James (Jamie)
John (Jon, Jonathan, Johnny)
Robert (Bob, Bobby)
Mary
Michael (Mike, Mikey)
William (Will, Bill, Billie, Willy)
David (Dave)
Richard (Dick)
Charles (Charlie)
Joseph (Joe)

Rating	Total	Female	Male	Unspecified	Average Age
Good	12	7	5	0	39.6
Bad	3	1	2	0	40.9
No Opinion	52	32	20	0	35.5

Qualifiers:

User	Vote	Comment
Zang	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 7:07pm Close enough...
gambler	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 6:15pm
autumnlight	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 1:43pm
Iseult	N/A	posted 16-Apr-2005 1:31pm kate - the reason why there is only one female name is because there is a far larger variety of female names out there than male.
bcollins	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 12:58pm You really should change 'Billie' to 'Billy' because it's the more common spelling.
Matty	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 3:54am
darkshadowsseeker	nitpick	posted 16-Apr-2005 3:45am I find it hard to believe that there is only one common female name, yet there are all these male names.
darkshadowsseeker	old	posted 16-Apr-2005 3:18am Is there some particular reason for only having one female name? I know far more women than I do men mainly because my job has a larger ratio of female to male employees.
thresholdking	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 1:26am Interesting
LindaH	reasonable	posted 16-Apr-2005 12:15am OH! I get it. It makes sense why you have it this way now. Cool.
Iseult	old	posted 16-Apr-2005 12:10am Okay, I think I made i clearer now.
Strider	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 11:28pm
LindaH	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 11:07pm You are likely to get just names as answers. James, Robert, Michael, William, David. I guess it is fine as it is, but it would look so much nicer the other way.
DucKid	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 10:27pm
Matty	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 10:02pm SC: then, that's what I would say in the explanation. While I chuckled at your criticism of the pedantic relativism that exists here; it does little to improve the survey. Explain why you want your survey the way you do and I bet it will get approved faster, however, I still think it's reasonable as is.
darkshadowsseeker	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 9:59pm
Iseult	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 9:53pm Thank you for the suggestion, however, that is not what I was going for. I am not interested in whether there would be anyone by these names known to the people answering the questions (which would be what such method would represent). This is left essay so you are free to pick any of these names and tell us the answer.
bcollins	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 9:14pm You can make this multiple pick by making each name into an option. We can then click on each name and give the corresponding number of people we know by that name. You might want to fix the 'Joseph' name as well. It should be 'Joe' and 'Johhny' is spelled 'Johnny'. You might also consider adding 'Billy' to the 'William' option because it's a more common spelling then 'Billie'.
bcollins	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 9:10pm You are missing the word 'the' which should be before 'following'.
DucKid	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 8:51pm My name's Michael!
Matty	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 7:48pm
Iseult	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 7:06pm How can this be multi pick?
LindaH	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 4:01pm This would be perfect as a multi pick.
Biggles	old	posted 15-Apr-2005 3:51pm