These are the most common first names of criminals

Northern California's Jeremy Meeks, the "hot felon" whose mug showed up on news sites across the U.S., shares one big thing in common with a lot of other criminals: his first name. Northern California's Jeremy Meeks, the "hot felon" whose mug showed up on news sites across the U.S., shares one big thing in common with a lot of other criminals: his first name. Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close These are the most common first names of criminals 1 / 3 Back to Gallery

Crime has a name, apparently, and it's Jeremy. Or Juan, depending on where in the U.S. you are.

In a survey by home security company Protection1, both of those names top the list of the most common names of criminals in seven states in the U.S.

The results were found by combing through 30,000 separate arrestees across the states. Each name of every criminal whose data was collected was then weighted based on its popularity over the last 100 years (using the SSA's birth name popularity rankings) to determine how those results translate to the general criminal population.

As they found, Juan and Jeremy were the most common names of criminals in seven states each, followed by Jesse, Johnny, and Randy, which each topped three states.

The survey also found out which names were most common for which crimes. Jeremy was most frequently associated with robbery and driving-related crimes, and people named Johnny were often associated with assault and fraud. Randy was the most popular name for drug-related offenses, Wayne for parole violations, and Alan for murder.

Names for women didn't appear too frequently in the survey, save for a notable place: fraud. In the top five names most commonly appearing in arrest records, three of them belonged to women: Tiffany, Samantha, and Kelly (which, actually, could also be a man's name).

Although there are always concerns around surveys of this nature, the results do point to one important thing: names are important. Studies are frequently done to examine how given names influence everything from the grades we get in school to how competent people believe us to be. However, that doesn't mean studies like these should be accepted unequivocally.

One particular issue with the understanding of surveys like these, outlined by Uri Simonsohn from the University of Pennsylvania in a 2013 New Yorker article, states that it's problematic to ignore base rates, "the over-all frequency with which something, like a name, occurs in the population at large."

"It may be appealing to think that someone named Dan would prefer to be a doctor, but we have to ask whether there are so many doctor Dans simply because Dan is a common name, well-represented in many professions," the article reads. "If that's the case, the implicit-egotism effect is no longer valid."

In other words, just because a man is named Alan doesn't mean he's any more likely to commit murder. Still, it's worth a look, if not to see where your name falls on the crime-o-meter.

View the full results here.

Alyssa Pereira is an entertainment and pop culture writer for SFGATE. Follow her here on Twitter.