James, David, Paul and Sarah revealed as UK’s clumsiest names

Ever dropped and smashed your mobile phone? If you’re called James, Sarah, David or Paul it seems there’s a good chance your shattered phone screen is stuck together with tape.

High-street phone repairer iSmash has rather cruelly revealed the names of what it terms the UK’s clumsiest people according to lists of people who come into its shops with a sad face and a smashed phone screen.

Men’s names make up the top-three clumsy fools, with James, David and Paul most likely to drop and smash their precious smartphone. Indeed the butter-fingered top 10 includes nine men’s names, and the top 20 has 18 cack-handed males.

Sarah is the clumsiest female name (at #4), with Emma (#13) and Laura (#21) coming second and third in the women’s phone-fumbling Olympics.

iPhones take the top nine places for the most frequently repaired phones, followed by the Samsung.

James and Sarah should be looking to Black Friday and Christmas for a sturdy phone case. Check out our roundups of the best cases for iPhone X, best cases for iPhone Xr, best cases for iPhone Xs, and best cases for Samsung Galaxy S9.

In 2017 iSmash announced Leeds as the most ham-fisted town, followed by Nottingham, Bristol and Newcastle. Swansea and London had the least bungling populations 

Britain’s clumsiest names list for 2018 revealed

1. James

2. David

3. Paul

4. Sarah

5. Mark

6. Michael

7. John

8. Chris

9. Andrew

10. Alex

11. Richard

12. Tom

13. Emma

14. Daniel

15. Simon

16. Matthew

17. Ben

18. Peter

19. Sam

20. Adam

21. Laura

22. Robert

23. Charlotte

24. Hannah

25. Rebecca

26. Nick

27. Claire

28. Jack

29. Sophie

30. Lucy

31. Stephen

32. Anna

33. Thomas

34. Jonathan

35. George

36. Amy

37. Katie

38. Matt

39. Joe

40. Martin

The name data was determined by the number of phone repairs carried out by iSmash from March to May 2018.