What’s in a (high school newspaper’s) name?

10,000 Words.net has a list of the most common words in U.S. newspapers’ names, complete with a tag cloud that visually represents the names in proportion to their usage.

Given that there likely isn’t a professional newspaper in the United States with a name like Knightly News or Bear Facts, we couldn’t resist trying to find out what such a list would look like for the 3,594 high school newspapers in NSPA’s database. Here, courtesy of TagCrowd and Wordle, the same two sites used by 10,000 Words to create their list, are the results:

1. times (129)
2. news (81)
3. press (79)
4. eagle (79)
5. paw (64)
6. voice (63)
7. eye (56)
8. tiger (56)
9. chronicle (53)
10. panther (45)
11. print (43)
12. talon (43)
13. journal (37)
14. tales (36)
15. roar (34)
16. blue (34)
17. viking (32)
18. bulldog (33)
19. echo (32)
20. trojan (32)
21. cougar (30)
22. review (30)
23. lion (29)
24. express (29)
25. cardinal (28)
26. rampage (28)
27. tribune (28)
28. herald (26)
29. star (26)
30. pride (25)
31. advocate (23)
32. bear (23)
33. gazette (23)
34. pirate (23)
35. post (23)
36. raider (23)
37. shield (23)
38. patriot (22)
39. scroll (22)
40. white (22)
41. falcon (21)
42. gold (21)
43. oracle (21)
44. student (21)
45. red (20)
46. smoke (20)
47. spectrum (20)
48. talk (20)
49. tracks (20)
50. warrior (20)

If you ran the names of all of the students at your school through one of these two sites, it would make an easy, fun feature graphic for your school yearbook or newspaper. That’s just one of the potential applications of tools like these.

UPDATE: Here, by request, is the list and tag cloud for the 3,872 yearbooks in NSPA’s database:

1 tiger (51)
2 legend (44)
3 panther (43)
4 talon (42)
5 eagle (40)
6 pride (37)
7 shield (33)
8 reflections (31)
9 tales (29)
10 log (27)
11 legacy (24)
12 cardinal (23)
13 echo (23)
14 aerie (22)
15 falcon (22)
16 odyssey (22)
17 excalibur (21)
18 trojan (21)
19 wildcat (21)
20 bulldog (20)
21 lion (20)
22 cougar (19)
23 saga (19)
24 mustang (18)
25 viking (18)
26 warrior (17)
27 golden (16)
28 paw (16)
29 spirit (16)
30 aquila (15)
31 heritage (15)
32 hornet (15)
33 crusader (15)
34 gold (14)
35 patriot (14)
36 trail (14)
37 valhalla (14)
38 polaris (13)
39 prowler (13)
40 tracks (13)
41 blue (12)
42 chieftain (12)
43 lance (12)
44 memories (12)
45 rebel (12)
46 reflector (12)
47 accolade (11)
48 bruin (11)
49 pioneer (11)
50 summit (11)