| 100% | ERGOT | 5 | Rye fungus Claviceps purpurea's more common name |
| 40% | SECOND | 6 | Most common U.S. street name, surprisingly |
| 40% | MAIN | 4 | Most common street name in the U.S. |
| 40% | MARY | 4 | Most common girl's name in the 1950s |
| 39% | JAMES | 5 | Most common first name among U.S. presidents (six) |
| 38% | LYE | 3 | More common name for caustic soda |
| 38% | BRUISE | 6 | More common name for a contusion |
| 38% | CANINES | 7 | More common name for the cuspids |
| 38% | SMITH | 5 | The most common last name in the U.S. |
| 37% | HEMATITE | 8 | More common name for iron or ferric oxide |
| 37% | JOHN | 4 | Most common papal name |
| 37% | SHALLOT | 7 | More common name of a multiplier or cluster onion |
| 36% | NGUYEN | 6 | Most common Vietnamese family name |
| 36% | WALKER | 6 | Most common name for a zombie in the Walking Dead |
| 36% | NGUYEN | 6 | Most common family name in Vietnam |
| 36% | SILVA | 5 | Most common last name in Brazil |
| 35% | LEE | 3 | Most common last name in the world |
| 35% | JAMES | 5 | Most common first name of US presidents |
| 35% | GREGORY | 7 | After John, the second most common name of a pope |
| 34% | SMITH | 5 | Most common last name in the United States |
| 34% | OREO | 4 | Most common commercial name in New York Times crosswords |
| 34% | WERNICKE | 8 | Most common type of fluent aphasia has his name |
| 33% | LIAM | 4 | The most common name for baby boys born in America in 2018 |
| 33% | LIAM | 4 | The most common name for baby boys born in America in 2020 |
| 33% | MEL | 3 | More common first name of Scary Spice of the Spice Girls |
| 32% | SSA | 3 | Govt. agcy. that releases the annual most common newborn baby name list just prior to Mother's Day |
| 31% | ELM | 3 | Common street name in a neighborhood with many trees |
| 31% | SMITH | 5 | Most common U.S. surname |
| 30% | EDAM | 4 | Czech Republic's most common cheese |
| 30% | ELPRAT | 6 | Common name for Barcelona's airport |