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5 Freddy Kruegers live in the USA: Real people with horror movie names

If watching “Friday the 13th” scarred you for life, you should avoid living in Pennsylvania, California or New York. There are four men named Jason Voorhees living in each state.

That’s according to a new list released by Whitepages, which reveals that the most famous names in horror are more ubiquitous than you might have guessed.

Sitting at the top of the list is the original slasher film star Michael Myers, with 4,282 people of the same name living in the US — 333 in Ohio alone. The rest of the names include fellow movie monsters, authors and directors.

Other popular Halloween-centric names include first names Carrie (from Stephen King’s “Carrie”), with more than 315,711 in the country (23,343 in California), and Hannibal (6,399), as well as last names Frankenstein (510) and Ghost (38).

“Many people could say they’ve been scared by a number of the villains on this list, but until now have probably never thought that one could be living next door!” says Liz Powell, culture and trend expert from Whitepages.

Check out the rest of the list to see if the villain you fear most is in a state near you:

1. Michael Myers (“Halloween”): 4,282; 333 in Ohio

2. Stephen King (author): 2,068; 168 in Texas

3. Norman Bates (“Psycho”): 96; nine in Texas

4. Jason Voorhees (“Friday the 13th”): 30; four each in Pennsylvania, California and New York

5. Annie Wilkes (“Misery”): 25; 10 in Georgia

6. Jack Torrance (“The Shining”): 10; two in California

7. Wes Craven (director): seven; two in North Carolina

8. Alfred Hitchcock (director): seven; two each in California and Maryland

9. Max Cady (“Cape Fear”): six; three in Florida

10. Freddy Krueger (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”): five; two in Washington

11. Donnie Darko (“Donnie Darko”): four; three in Pennsylvania

12. Samara Morgan (“The Ring”): two; one each in Texas and North Dakota

13. Damien Thorn (“The Omen”): one in California