--- title: Women Named Jennifer Are Gold Diggers According to Dubious Survey description: Stupid survey predicts whether you're a money grubber based on your name canonical: https://time.com/70117/women-named-jennifer-are-gold-diggers-according-to-dubious-survey/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-21T15:59:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:10.099Z og:title: Women Named Jennifer Are Gold Diggers According to Dubious Survey og:description: Stupid survey predicts whether you're a money grubber based on your name og:url: https://time.com/70117/women-named-jennifer-are-gold-diggers-according-to-dubious-survey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted83dc3c16891d87/69868b9a36176042fa90b95f/dorp_01291fd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Jennifer Lawrence og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women Named Jennifer Are Gold Diggers According to Dubious Survey twitter:description: Stupid survey predicts whether you're a money grubber based on your name twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted83dc3c16891d87/69868b9a36176042fa90b95f/dorp_01291fd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Women Named Jennifer Are Gold Diggers According to Dubious Survey > Sponsored content. 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Francois Duhamel—2013 Annapurna Productions LLC/Columbia Pictures  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 21, 2014 3:59 PM UTC If you’re bachelor with cash to spare, you should stay away from women names Jennifer, according to a sexist and highly suspect new survey. [DirtSearch.org](http://www.dirtsearch.org/), a background check service, skimmed through their data to find the most-searched female names on their site that had petty crime records. Then the good people at Dirt Search decided that women who’d had trouble with the law must surely be gold diggers and took it upon themselves to [warn wealthy men](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2607828/Are-named-Jessica-Michelle-Jennifer-Lisa-Then-youre-likely-choose-money-love-says-new-survey.html) to be on the look out for Jennifers, Jessicas and other suspiciously named women. The _Daily Mail_ published the list of most common “gold digger” names as follows: 1\. Jennifer 2\. Jessica 3\. Michelle 4\. Lisa 5\. Ashley 6\. Amanda 7\. Melissa 8\. Stephanie 9\. Nicole 10\. Angela Sorry, J-Law, J Woww and Jennifer Aniston. Looks like you’re not going to be able to fulfill your dreams of marrying rich. Husbands of Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner and Jennifer Connelly: I hope you got a prenup. All other Jennifers: don’t even try to get on _Millionaire Matchmaker_ this season. One more note: the DirtSearch list is pretty close to the most popular women’s names from 1985\. (I chose that year randomly—women born that year would be 29 now. I’m fairly certain if you cross reference this list with other years around the age, you would find a similar overlap.) I’ve bolded the names that are on both lists. Turns out the most-searched names on a background check website also were the most popular girl baby names in the mid-1980s. **1\. Jessica** **2\. Ashley** **3\. Jennifer** **4\. Amanda** 5\. Sarah **6\. Stephanie** **7\. Nicole** 8\. Heather 9\. Elizabeth 10\. 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