Person middle initial
Records an individual's middle initial. Known or imputed for 223.6 million individuals — 89.6% of Faraday's identity graph.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 89.6%
- Typical coverage
- 89.5%
- Individuals with a value
- 223.6M
- Share in largest category
- 12.5%
- Most values come
- from the person
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
How the categories split
n = 223,642,024Share of individuals in each category. 26 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 12.5% in the largest.
Every category
26 categoriesThe chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.
- A12.51%27,987,741 individuals
- M11.88%26,574,275 individuals
- L10.84%24,247,042 individuals
- J8.90%19,906,674 individuals
- R6.50%14,538,476 individuals
- D6.02%13,471,065 individuals
- E5.94%13,286,698 individuals
- C5.15%11,514,405 individuals
- S4.78%10,681,434 individuals
- K2.94%6,563,999 individuals
- B2.89%6,469,474 individuals
- G2.87%6,407,386 individuals
- N2.78%6,224,289 individuals
- W2.73%6,098,918 individuals
- T2.67%5,981,442 individuals
- P2.65%5,928,764 individuals
- H2.17%4,853,747 individuals
- F2.00%4,472,369 individuals
- V1.08%2,405,075 individuals
- I0.85%1,911,862 individuals
- O0.73%1,621,569 individuals
- Y0.57%1,268,267 individuals
- Z0.20%441,844 individuals
- Q0.14%302,985 individuals
- X0.11%251,004 individuals
- U0.10%231,220 individuals
Category shares over time
A12.5% (largest)The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of individuals.
Coverage
Latest collection: 229,689,060 individualsCoverage by state
Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
89.6% todayShare of individuals holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 100%
- A named person, from a record about that person.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
Coverage, in context
Where 89.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 45% of individual-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of individuals in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Change between collections
The share of individuals whose category changed.
of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 762.4× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
13 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-10 | 266,506,942 | c5492806… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 264,096,977 | 1181277b… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-02 | 264,777,400 | af53c569… |
| 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,508,091 | 84d6a1c5… |
| 2025-11-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,299,874 | a071c538… |
Technical details
- API name
- person_middle_initial
- Category
- fig/demography
- Type · unit
- Text
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- Unspecified
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"person_middle_initial": "A"
}
}