The name Jarne Bareen might not mean anything to you.
But that’s what you get when you merge together some 27,000 names of current and former NFL players.
And why would someone do that? I’d say welcome to the NFL offseason, friends. We’re all done with the NFL combine and now we’re waiting for free agency and draft madness.
Anyway, Redditor DiggingNoMore crunched all the names together with a really funky way to combine them all using the most popular letters for each position of first and last names, and the eventual Frankenstein monster of a moniker is: Jarne Bareen.
Here’s more:
I continued finding the most popular letter in each position of first names and last names. Now, clearly there are some names that are really long. But I went until the position was more than 50% blank. That is to say, the first name I have come up with – Jarne – is five letters long. That’s because ~55% of NFL players’ first names have a fifth letter. Still a majority. But only ~30% have a sixth letter. So that’s how I ended up cutting off the merged first name after five letters and the merged last name after six letters. Turns out last names are generally longer than first names. I was also surprised to see how many first names were exactly four letters (over a quarter of NFL players).