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English: This chart used US Census Bureau data about rank and frequency of American surnames (last names), to give examples of where various surnames occur on a list of the most prevalent 1000 surnames. A power law curve is expressed.

X-axis: Rank of surname

Y-axis: Frequency of surname
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Chart originally appeared in this blog post: http://insidemr.blogspot.com/2010/01/power-law-curve-in-surnames.html

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