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I thought the same thing. In fact, many of the top 10 passwords look odd to me: dthomas? disneyI (capital "I")? conrad76?

I have a hard time believing these are legitimately the most common passwords. Compare that to a list like this:

Yes, the top passwords being so specific is a key point in TFA.

From that link - can someone explain this one to me?

20. 3rjs1la7qe

Seems like a word but not sure which language. Only interesting password in the list.

Perhaps Arabic? My Arabic is very poor, so I cannot make out what it's saying.

It's likely that these are mass-reused passwords from bots. See: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/so-just-...

It's not a word, it's a keyboard walk. Fairly clever one too.

How is that a keyboard walk?

Care to explain?

IME, its not uncommon for people to include the two-digit form of their birth year in usernames or passwords.