A statistical Top 25 of the most popular villagers in 2020

[Nefarious]

Kind of surprised by Ketchup's popularity. People like their fruit villagers I suppose.

On the other hand, I'm glad to see that Hazel is in the top 25, she was always in the "ugliest villagers" lists back in the NL days.

 

[Miss Misty]

Kind of surprised by Ketchup's popularity. People like their fruit villagers I suppose.

On the other hand, I'm glad to see that Hazel is in the top 25, she was always in the "ugliest villagers" lists back in the NL days.

Hazel's popularity here might be because she was a bit of a meme on TagBackTV's channel back in his island hopping days when he was the king of streaming ACNH stuff with thousands of viewers daily. People were asking all stream every stream 'dude what are you gonna do if you run into Hazel again lololol'

 

[ReeBear]

Hazel's design is amazing ;w;
It might be that people have gotten over their horror at the idea of monobrows thanks to the capitalist adoption of Frida Kahlo's face?

 

[Nefarious]

Hazel's popularity here might be because she was a bit of a meme on TagBackTV's channel back in his island hopping days when he was the king of streaming ACNH stuff with thousands of viewers daily. People were asking all stream every stream 'dude what are you gonna do if you run into Hazel again lololol'

Ohh that makes some sense, hope it turned to an appreciation. Streamers do have a way with making less popular villager way more popular than they would have been without the love of an influencer. Like Scoot, who is Vinny Vinesauce's favorite villager, having a plethora of fanart thanks to having mascot status for that channel.

 

[Licorice]

This list is inaccurate. Cesar is the most popular.

 

[maddycha]

this is really interesting, thanks for putting it into a thread!

 

[jefflomacy]

While I think the idea is fun it is important that villager popularity is not derived from this list. Allow me to give some insight as to why I believe this.

Over the last 9 months, competition on Google in the villager space has been incredibly fierce. To such an extent in fact that Google has begun directly competing the Fandom Animal Crossing wiki and Nookipedia against each other. What this means is that in some regions a search for a particular villager will only yield results on Nookipedia, while in others it will only yield results on Fandom Wiki. But they don't do this consistently. It does not appear they are doing this at this time. Additionally, sometimes Fandom Wiki wins the big search result with images, and other times Nookipedia wins.

Essentially the only thing that can be derived from this data is "What villagers did Nookipedia rank better for on Google?" It doesn't answer much anything else. For example it is comedically obscene to believe that Ketchup is in any way more desirable than Rosie. The easiest way to demonstrate the popularity of a villager is to go on eBay and look at individual Amiibo Card prices. Villagers in higher demand have lower supply, and therefore higher costs. Rosie appears to be trending for about $7 right now, whereas authentic Ketchup cards are being sold along with other cards in packs of 3 or more for the same price, meaning the market has decided that card is worth about $2.30.

 

[Miss Misty]

For example it is comedically obscene to believe that Ketchup is in any way more desirable than Rosie.

My personal pet theory for Ketchup in particular is that people hear there's an AC villager named Ketchup and wonder what that villager could possibly look like, so they try to look her up out of curiosity.

 

[Boccages]

The first newcomer making the Top 25 is Dom at #17

 

[Boccages]

Skye is #16

 

[Bk1234]

#24 - Hazel

Happy to see Hazel make the list, but something tells me people just looked her up because of how polarizing she is. You either love her, or hate her.

 

[Boccages]

Now Molly is making it into this years-end list at #15 of the most-viewed villagers on Nookipedia in 2020.

 

[Mink777]

Hazel being in this surprises me and looks like Lucky will be the only dog.

 

[Wickel]

Skye surprised me! I like him but I barely see him mentioned anywhere

 

[TommyTDL]

Sorry but I also don't trust this as a "popularity" measure. My reason is my GF and I use the pedia site when we are cruising mystery islands looking for a new villager and I suspect that a lot of players do this. Recently we were searching for a top tier female and we found Zucker not once but twice - but we already knew who he was and thus there was no need to search the pedia pages for info on him. That particular day we went combined to around 100 islands (before we found Marina) and probably 90% of the villagers we searched the pedia for were waaay down the popularity list.

 

[JKDOS]

Hazel's design is amazing ;w;
It might be that people have gotten over their horror at the idea of monobrows thanks to the capitalist adoption of Frida Kahlo's face?

Without the unibrow, I'd probably want her for my island

 

[Boccages]

Phoebe is number 14 on the 2020 ranking of the most viewed villager pages. That's a surprising entry to me. I did not know Phoebe was that popular.

 

[Boccages]

Coco has entered the rankings at #13 today. That monster

 

[Airysuit]

Coco is precious

 

[Jinglefruit]

Seeing Bob at #19 makes me believe Punchy will be nowhere on this list.

Ngl, I imagine his popularity dropped with all the bugs in the floor.

Phoebe is number 14 on the 2020 ranking of the most viewed villager pages. That's a surprising entry to me. I did not know Phoebe was that popular.

I can see some of the sisterly villagers probably getting a disproportionate number of searches for being one of the starting 2 villagers, and there being less of them than other personalities, and there being a lot of disliked sisterlies. Between these it probably skews more views onto the more popular Sisterlies, when people are picking dreamies or reseting towns.