Naming your new variables

There are these lists around of popular baby names for a given year. (No links, do your own Google search). I wonder what such a list would look like if someone did the same tabulation for variable names in programs? How would it change over the years? ("i" and "j" would probably be perennial favorites, with "idx","indx",and "index" not far behind)
Seeing the lists broken down by "ethnicity" (ie, programming language) would be interesting as well.

On a related note, expectant parents have books of baby names at their disposal for aid in choosing a name. I wonder if programmers could use such a resource to assist in naming their variables (and functions and namespaces, etc)?
(Actually, a thesaurus is handy for that purpose. (Ugh, I just answered my own rhetorical question))

Questions from the Edge

The Edge asks a big question annually. This year, it is: What is your dangerous idea? They have a pile of responses from scientists and other notable people. Many of them have to do with brain and biology, others have to do with religion and science, and there are sundry other topics discussed Give it a read (You'll have to scroll down a ways past all the blurbs to get the actual responses on the first page).