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Name Commonness

Higher commonness choices narrow results to profiles with higher usage weights; the score is not a population percentage.

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Choosing Commonness

Use Commonness to look for names with a stronger usage score in the selected reference profile.

Choice	Minimum usage score
Any	No minimum; names without a usage profile can appear.
Rare or above	0.01
Familiar	0.05
Common	0.25

These are minimums, not separate bands: Familiar can also return very common names. The values are reference weights rather than the percentage of people with that name. If the list is too short, choose Any and inspect the profiles yourself.

Very common	0.6

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