A comment at a division speech contest tonight got me to wondering. In District 30 alone, we have three clubs with the name “Speakeasies” (or some spelling variant thereof) as a key part of their name. There’s no requirement for club names to be unique — what are the most common names?

The most common words in the names of 11,766 active clubs are (with the number of clubs listed first):

9231 club
4961 toastmasters
477 speakers
459 of
381 the
223 city
171 communicators
170 talkers
155 toast
152 speaking
131 talk
130 masters
121 toasters
121 valley
111 speak
106 advanced
90 &
84 voices
75 town
73 county
66 and
66 orators
63 university
61 state
61 west
60 park
57 first
56 new
53 north
53 mandarin
53 bay

Hmm, looks like “Speakers of the City” would be a winner — but there’s no club with that name! Just interesting trivia.