| 100% | FRANKL | 6 | Holocaust survivor Viktor who wrote Man's Search for Meaning |
| 40% | MEANING | 7 | "Man's Search For ___," self-help book written by Viktor Frankl which chronicles his experiences as a prisoner and his psychotherapeutic method |
| 35% | MCCARTHY | 8 | Cormac who wrote "No Country for Old Men" |
| 34% | MANS | 4 | “___ Search for Meaning” (Viktor Frankl book) |
| 34% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "That is no country for old men" |
| 31% | OTIS | 4 | Man's name meaning "One who hears well" |
| 31% | AIMEE | 5 | Mann who wrote songs for 1999's "Magnolia" |
| 30% | TODD | 4 | "BoJack Horseman" character who writes the rock opera "Newtopia Rising, Book I: The Search for a New Utopia" |
| 30% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 30% | MALRAUX | 7 | André who wrote The Human Condition aka Man's Fate |
| 30% | PADMA | 5 | Lakshmi who wrote the children's book "Tomatoes for Neela" |
| 29% | TINA | 4 | Fey who wrote the dialogue for the "Mean Girls" Broadway musical |
| 29% | SARA | 4 | Bareilles who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's "Waitress" |
| 29% | FEY | 3 | Comedian Tina who wrote the book for the Broadway musical "Mean Girls" |
| 29% | SARA | 4 | Singer Bareilles who wrote and composed the music for Broadway's "Waitress" |
| 29% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 29% | THOREAU | 7 | Philosopher who wrote, “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison” |
| 29% | ELI | 3 | Peyton Manning's brother who plays for New York Giants |
| 29% | NEIL | 4 | ___ Young, famed Canadian singer-songwriter of CSNY, who also wrote the score for the film "Dead Man" |
| 29% | KESHA | 5 | Singer who's written for Spears and Cyrus |
| 28% | DOA | 3 | Classic film noir about a man's search for his own killer |
| 28% | ABSURDISM | 9 | Belief that searching for meaning of life is silly |
| 28% | ROGET | 5 | Man in search of meaning? |
| 28% | ELLISON | 7 | Ralph who wrote "Invisible Man" |
| 28% | RALPH | 5 | Ellison who wrote "Invisible Man" |
| 28% | ISAAC | 5 | Hayes who wrote "Soul Man" |
| 27% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 27% | BERGER | 6 | Thomas who wrote "Little Big Man" |
| 27% | NEWLEY | 6 | Anthony who wrote "The Candy Man" |
| 27% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "The Third Man" |