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Abbreviations used:

Af Lat = Afro-Latino
Ambig = Ambiguous Race
Indig = Indigenous Peoples

Welcome to the 2022 AO3 Ship Stats!

As part of the AO3 Ship Stats project, this list shows the 100 most-posted relationship tags on Archive Of Our Own in the period July 31 2021 - August 4 2022. This list was created by comparing the current number of fics with data gathered for the 2021 AO3 Ship Stats.

There are 56 M/M relationships on the list, 11 F/M, 6 F/F, 20 Gen, 1 Poly and 6 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic or familial ‘Gen’ relationships, while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic and sexual pairings.)

Of the 205 names on the list, 25 are women, 1 is non-binary, and 6 are characters of ambiguous gender, up from 18 and 2 in the 2021 list. In total there are 121 white characters, 63 Asian characters, 5 Latino characters, 3 Black characters, and 1 Indigenous character, as well as 13 racially ambiguous characters. There are 71 total Characters of Colour, which is twenty fewer than the number listed in 2021.

For more information about the AO3 Ship Stats project, please check out the accompanying FAQs. You might also be interested in the All-Time Top 100 Pairings and the Femslash Top 100 list.

Edit 6 Aug 2022: Fixed race for "Jayce" and "Thoma".

Edit 7 Aug 2022: Fixed race for "Eda Clawthorne" and "Alina Starkov".

(Data updated to table format April 2025.)