The Top 10 Most Popular Vampires Online

The top ten vampires are:
10. Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, and later his own spinoff series Angel.
9. Felipe De Castro from the Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood book and TV series.
8. Lara from the Dresden Files book and TV series.
7. Dracula from the 1897 novel and countless movie and tv renditions.
6. Spike from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.
5. Lilith from ancient vampire lore.
4. Nosferatu, first appearing in the 1922 movie of the same name, an adaptation of Dracula.
3. Bill from the Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood book and TV series.
2. Alice from the Twilight series of books and movies.
...and the most popular vampire online is no surprise...
1. Edward from the Twilight series of books and movies.

I compiled this list be searching for the word Vampire + the series name + the vampire name on a number of search engines. This ensured that I was indeed getting results for a particular vampire from a particular series. The vampire's popularity was judged by the total number of pages found for them. So, for example to rank Edward from Twilight I searched for "Vampire Twilight Edward", which had millions and millions of pages.

Partly to prevent The Twilight Series from completely overwhelming this list I only allowed any one series a maximum of two spots on this list. The most popular vampires from Twilight were (in order) Edward, Alice, Jane, Victoria, Jasper, Laurent, Marcus, Carlisle, Rosalie, Esme, James, Aro, and Demetri. True Blood also had too many vamps on the list. The complete True Blood list (in order) is Bill, Felipe de Castro, Eric, Jessica, and Gdric.

The vampires who did not make the cut were Selene from Underworld, Darren Shan, Vlad the Impaler from the 14th century, Thomas from the Dresden Files, Lestat from Anne Rice, Jean-Claude from Anita Blake, Lewis from Anne Rice, Count von Count from Sesame Street, Elizabeth Bathory from the 15th century, and Count Chocula.

I was surprised that Vlad and Lestat didn't rank in the top 10, as both of them seem to be pretty prevelant in any serious discussion of vampire lore and media. No idea how Nosferatu made it to number 4, but perhaps that proves the staying power of a cool name.
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About the Author
I run the website www.SpookyFiles.com, and am always by the many different takes on the vampire mythology used in movies, television, and literature.