Hypothesis: diversity of names of Hollywood actors is higher than the diversity of names of characters they play.
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Err. How do you know for 50 years ago? Is there a study?
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that still goes on somewhat (eg. Jon Stewart) but I'm talking even more reduction in choice of character names.
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Oh, and for your data-set: same phenomenon in Bollywood. Lots of early actors (30s - 50s) were muslims who took on hindu names.
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Sounds like a job for the Baby Name Blog: babynamewizard.com/blog (check it out: great ways in which data is used to inform naming)
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