User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey of named and unnamed commas

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Conducted Saturday 16 November, 2024.

Total

551 comma pages counted.

By size

• Large comma: 21
• Medium comma: 91
• Small comma: 220
• Unnoticeable: 219

By year named

• 1870s: 2
• 1880s: 0

...

• 1970s: 0
• 1980s: 0
• 1990s: 2
• 2000s: 57
• 2010s: 53
• 2020s: 378

• Unknown: ~240 (does not include systematic names)

Most prolific namers

Every theorist who has named 4 or more commas:

1. Xenllium: 143
2. Gene W Smith: 38
3. Eliora: 30
4. Dawson Berry: 26
5. Flora Canou: 26
6. Paul Erlich: 23
7. Petr Pařízek: 23
8. B Lambeth: 20
9. Francium: 16
10. Kaiveran: 14
11. Jerdle: 12
12. CompactStar: 11
13. Margo Schulter: 10
14. Tristan Bay: 9
15. Flirora: 9
16. Godtone: 9
17. ArrowHead294: 8
18. Lériendil: 7
19. Stephen Weigel: 6
20. Akselai: 5
21. Douglas Blumeyer: 5
22. Mike Battaglia: 4
23. Scott Dakota: 4

Trivia: Xenllium has named more commas than the next 5 theorists on the list combined. More than 1 out of every 4 commas documented on the wiki was named by them.

Named after...

• Regular temperament properties: 172
  • The intervals the comma stacks: 73
    • The periods per equave: 33
      • Periodic table-based name: 11
      • Other name: 12
    • Other intervals: 40
  • Combining two temperament names: 27
  • The generator of the assoc. temperament: 7
  • How the comma divides the fifth: 5
  • How the comma divides the fourth: 3
  • Other properties: 57

• Individuals: ~115
  • Music theorists: 40
  • Composers: 39
  • Polymaths: 22
  • Fictional characters: 16
  • Mathematicians: 8
  • Creatives in other fields: 7
  • Controversial individuals/groups: 6
  • Mythology or folk characters: 4
  • Other individuals: 17

• The comma's interval size: 43
• Asteroids: 32
• Place names: 21
• A famous occurrence of a number: 20
• Non-English words: 17
• Musical traditions: 16
• Plays on the color name: 7
• Personal events: 6
• Pieces of music: 5
• Something else: 17

• Etymology unknown: 124
• Systematic name only/not named: 29

Trivia: There are two commas named after individual cats: the ampersand comma, and the junebug comma. There do not appear to be any named after individual dogs... yet.

See also

Pages where you can discover further details:

• Medium comma
• Small comma
• Unnoticeable comma
• Category:Commas by name