In the United States, popular names tend to be chosen by parents with more education.

Probably from a trade world, where names tended to be less standard.

Most of the examples above have been populated places, as these names tend to be more familiar to a broader audience.

Both the names of places and people tend to be highly prosaic when translated.

There too, names tend to consist of highly prosaic words.

The names of large cities tend to be more permanent.

Even the big names tend to focus on the hungry years, when they too were in those trenches.

Maybe names tended to get lost on Azlaroc; more likely, they just never become important.

The last names of Italian professors tended to be similar more often than predicted by random chance.

Some names, of course, tend to keep popping up.