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This would fit in with my experience at school. We were housed based on our names. The four equally-sized houses were invariably split A-D,E-K,L-N and O-Z every year. Though I imagine this would not hold true in say the Arab World where about 90% of names begin with A so its probably not as universal as Benford's Law.