The most popular Halloween costumes are pretty basic, according to Google
Thankfully, "the coronavirus" didn't make Google Trends' top Halloween costume list.
The company created the Frightgeist portal to inject a little spooky flair into highlighting what people are looking at for Halloween inspiration, even if it's just for a Zoom costume party. The top 50 costumes in the U.S. starts with the most stereotypical outfit for Oct. 31: a witch costume.
The top five continues with dinosaur, Harley Quinn, rabbit, and clown costumes.
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The costume most closely connected to current events was a cop costume (number 50), after a summer of protests about racial justice and police violence. Notably, a cop costume made it onto Mashable's list of things not to dress as this Halloween. Oops.
There's also a map of the U.S. to see which costumes are trending in different parts of the country (we see all you Tinker Bells in Philly), and you can make it local enough to see what's the most popular get-up around you. Based on a search in my location, I would be seeing a lot of lions if COVID-19 social distancing measures didn't mean curtailed festivities in 2020.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
