Who’s Keeping Up With the Smiths?

Last year a total of 1,858 people with the last name Smith bought a home in California.

That was 16.9% more than the 1,589 home buyers named Garcia who bought a home in the state in 1994, Dataquick Information Systems reported.

The Smiths and Garcias were followed in home-buyer frequency by people with the last names Johnson, Lee, Rodriguez, Lopez and Hernandez, the real estate information service reported.

“We usually provide our clients and the public with serious real estate statistics that cover solemn business issues. This name list is one of those goofy things someone with a nice computer can do, keeping in mind that tomorrow is the day of the year we can let ourselves have a little fun with information,” said Dataquick CEO Donald L. Cohn.