also-ran vs nobody

also-ran

noun
  • A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten. 

  • A person or animal who competed in a race but did not win. 

nobody

noun
  • Someone who is not important or well-known. 

pron
  • Not any person; the logical negation of somebody. 

How often have the words also-ran and nobody occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )