| 100% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 97% | STARBUCK | 8 | First mate of the Pequod in Moby Dick |
| 93% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in the novel "Moby-Dick" |
| 86% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of whaler the Pequod in 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick |
| 72% | PELEG | 5 | One of the Pequod’s owners, in “Moby-Dick” |
| 67% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod |
| 65% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed captain of the Pequod |
| 65% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional captain of the Pequod |
| 64% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in pursuit of Moby Dick |
| 64% | AHAB | 4 | Literature's Captain of the Pequod |
| 63% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional one-legged captain of the Pequod |
| 63% | QUEEQUEG | 8 | Chief harpooner on the Pequod in the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick |
| 63% | STARBUCK | 8 | Chief mate on the Pequod in 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick |
| 62% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, in "The Matrix" |
| 61% | BLIGH | 5 | Captain of the HMS Bounty in 1789 |
| 61% | HANSOLO | 7 | Captain of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars |
| 60% | BOROMIR | 7 | Captain of the White Tower in Tolkien's works |
| 59% | AHABS | 5 | Monomaniacal captain of the "Pequod" and the "sheik of the burning sands" that Ray Stevens sang of in 1962 |
| 59% | ROYKENT | 7 | Captain of the team in Ted Lasso's first season |
| 58% | LARSEN | 6 | Captain of the Ghost, in Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" |
| 57% | STARBUCK | 8 | Pequod's chief mate in Moby Dick |
| 56% | AHAB | 4 | Captain ___, the obsessed captain in "Moby Dick" |
| 56% | AHAB | 4 | Captain in the literary fiction "Moby-Dick" |
| 54% | PELEG | 5 | Crony of Captain Bildad, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 54% | MRSMEE | 6 | The boatswain of Captain Hook in Peter Pan |
| 54% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| 54% | SIG | 3 | Hansen, captain of the only vessel to have appeared in every season of "Deadliest Catch" |
| 54% | NANTUCKET | 9 | Where the Pequod is docked, at the start of "Moby-Dick" |
| 52% | PHOEBUS | 7 | Archers' captain in The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 52% | INN | 3 | The Spouter in "Moby Dick," for one |