I hypothesized that most executives have names near the beginning of the alphabet. I decided to check this hypothesis on Google’s list of executives (sample size 42; I left out the board of directors), ran a simple linear regression analysis, and found a trendline:

y=-.106x+3.089

Where x=1 signifies ‘A’, x=2 signifies ‘B’, etc. Given that the maximum bin range (one bin per alphabetic character) was 4 and the domain contains 26 variables, this is a decently significant trend. (This is a cursory analysis; I’m not doing anything particularly powerful, so pardon the lack of t-tests and other heavy-duty analysis techniques).

There were 27 executives with last names in the range A-L and 16 with last names in the range M-Z. The graph was trimodal, with peaks in C-D, L-N, and S-T.