Name popularity in the US and France is extremely unequal and has stayed that way for over a century; the authors fit this pattern with a two-parameter Rayleigh-Jeans condensation model borrowed from wealth physics.
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Thermodynamic statistics of given names in USA and France
Name popularity in the US and France is extremely unequal and has stayed that way for over a century; the authors fit this pattern with a two-parameter Rayleigh-Jeans condensation model borrowed from wealth physics.