Speaker Mike Johnson takes the gavel presumably because Chris Smith and James Williams were otherwise occupied.
One of the perks of being speaker of the House — or at least, one of theDo a Google search for the name “Kevin McCarthy,” for example, and you see there are 27.7 million results. Search for “Nancy Pelosi” and you get 16.4 million. Maybe not a measure of popularity but presumably one of influence.On Wednesday afternoon, the House elected a new speaker, filling a vacancy that opened up three weeks ago with McCarthy’s ouster.
But, as you might know, Johnson wasn’t born in 2022. He was born a half-century before, in 1972. And that year, the most common first name for boys born in America was … “Michael.”You’ll notice that not only was “Michael” the most popular name, it also made up a much larger percentage of boys’ names that year than “Liam” did in 2022.
The Census Bureau data tells us, in fact, that “Johnson” is disproportionately common among Black Americans relative to other last names. It’s second overall, after “Williams.” Anyway, with the stipulation that we can’t easily know exactly how many “Mike Johnsons” there are in the country at the moment, we can create a grid comparing the first-and-last-name combinations of recent speakers to evaluate how exceptional “Mike Johnson” might be in its commonality, relative to other speakers. So, looking at last names in 2010 and first names from 1972 , we can plot recent House leaders relative to the most common first and last names in those years, “Michael” and “Smith.
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Speaker vote: Three things to know about speaker-designate Mike JohnsonJack Birle is a breaking news reporter for the Washington Examiner. A 2022 graduate of Villanova University with majors in communication and political science, he has previous journalism experience with the Center Square and as a fellow with the National Journalism Center. He was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Southern California.
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