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  1. These files contain frequency information about the names used by
  2. the American population in 1990.  The data comes from a sample of 
  3. about 1 million households included in the 1990 Census.
  4.  
  5. format:  
  6. name           pfreq  cum.pfreq  rank
  7.   where        pfreq = % of total frequency 
  8.                cum.pfreq = cumulative total % frequency
  9.                rank = rank
  10.  
  11. sample:        #  head dist* > README
  12.  
  13. ==> dist.all.last <==              # surnames
  14. SMITH          1.006  1.006      1
  15. JOHNSON        0.810  1.816      2
  16. WILLIAMS       0.699  2.515      3
  17. JONES          0.621  3.136      4
  18. BROWN          0.621  3.757      5
  19. DAVIS          0.480  4.237      6
  20. MILLER         0.424  4.660      7
  21. WILSON         0.339  5.000      8
  22. MOORE          0.312  5.312      9
  23. TAYLOR         0.311  5.623     10
  24.  
  25. ==> dist.female.first <==          # female first names
  26. MARY           2.629  2.629      1
  27. PATRICIA       1.073  3.702      2
  28. LINDA          1.035  4.736      3
  29. BARBARA        0.980  5.716      4
  30. ELIZABETH      0.937  6.653      5
  31. JENNIFER       0.932  7.586      6
  32. MARIA          0.828  8.414      7
  33. SUSAN          0.794  9.209      8
  34. MARGARET       0.768  9.976      9
  35. DOROTHY        0.727 10.703     10
  36.  
  37. ==> dist.male.first <==            # male first names
  38. JAMES          3.318  3.318      1
  39. JOHN           3.271  6.589      2
  40. ROBERT         3.143  9.732      3
  41. MICHAEL        2.629 12.361      4
  42. WILLIAM        2.451 14.812      5
  43. DAVID          2.363 17.176      6
  44. RICHARD        1.703 18.878      7
  45. CHARLES        1.523 20.401      8
  46. JOSEPH         1.404 21.805      9
  47. THOMAS         1.380 23.185     10
  48.