What Are the Worst Names for Getting a Driver’s License?

How nice it is not to take oneself too seriously on topics that are, here are some failure statistics for the driving test.

En Voiture Simone, a state-approved driving school and 100% connected, has shared its ranking of names with the lowest success rates for the driving test. To do this, the driving school analyzed the results of all the candidates it presented for the exam during the 2023-2024 period. These figures can be taken seriously as 2 million candidates have already placed their trust in it since its creation in 2015. It was able to identify the names with the highest failure percentages. A nice detail is that to avoid skewing the statistics with a few isolated and non-representative cases, it only retained names with fewer than… 30 attempts! Yes, some are artists of persistence.

But before we delve into the women’s and men’s podiums, here are the key points from the 2023 report established by the Road Safety Authority. 1,370,994 new candidates registered in 2023 to obtain a precious driving license for cars (1,135,784 candidates), motorcycles (162,718 candidates), or heavy vehicles (72,492 candidates). The overall success rate for the category B driving test, the most popular, is 55.9%. Surprisingly, this is much lower than the motorcycle license at 85% and the heavy vehicle license at 77.7%. The Bretons and Corsicans are the good students of the promotion, while the “dunce cap” goes unsurprisingly to the residents of Île-de-France. The distribution of candidates and passers is nearly 50/50 between men and women. A way to challenge some stereotypes.

Here, as promised, is the ranking from En Voiture Simone:

Male Names

1. Antoine: 53.33% failure
2. Thomas: 43.33% failure
3. Hugo: 41.94% failure

Female Names

1. Clara: 70% failure
2. Marie: 65.62% failure
3. Manon: 63.64% failure

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