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Reminds me of the good ol' days of wardriving SF with 14 WRT-54Gs running aircrack-ng in the back of my GTI.
These days our devices do the sniffing for us. Back then unearthing a BSSID felt like discovery! It felt like exploration.
Scanning through the SSID stats, looks like the top non-default wifi names are:
1. skynet
2. pretty fly for a wifi
3. FBI Surveillance Van
4. virus
I feel like "internet" and/or "wifi" deserve an honorable mention in that they are probably defaults on something but are more likely above #1 due to people setting them as the SSID manually.
What did you use to filter through the stats?
https://wigle.net/stats#ssidstats thought it disagrees with OP's observations
Are there any alternatives? The usability on this site is not very user friendly imho.
Maybe https://beacondb.net/
...and as an App to collect & contribute data, check out NeoStumbler: https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.malkki.neostumbler.fdroid/
Why there is no iOS app?
iOS, to the bane of network admins everywhere, doesn't allow 3rd party apps to request permission to scan for Wi-Fi networks. The closest you can get to a proper scan is downloading the old AirPort utility, enabling a hidden setting in Settings for the app which displays a scan button in the app, and then using that.
linksys.
linksys everywhere.