Subject area	Decision sciences
More specific subject area	Computational Linguistics, pattern analysis in naming
Type of data	Table and MS Excel
How data was acquired	The data was obtained from freely available textbooks, online baby name websites, oral interview, published articles and online discussion forum.
Data format	Raw, partial analyzed
Experimental factors	Simple random sampling of some selected Igbo personal names. The alphabets were presented in their written form (the way they are written in English).
Experimental features	Statistical analysis of the distribution of the following: characters for each name, consonants, vowels, initial letters, terminal letters and total or word length. Comparative ranking of frequency of occurrence.
Data source location	N/A
Data accessibility	All the data are in this data article