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At the risk of being a bit of a pedant (well, what's new), this analysis isn't quite right. A lot of people will search for O'Rourke by searching for "Beto" rather than his full name "Beto O'Rourke". So requiring his full name badly underrates his popularity on Google.
Google Trends has another category called *terms* which allows (usually) categorizes related searches correctly, e.g. "Bernie" searches would roll up under "Bernie Sanders" and "Beto" under "Beto O'Rourke". That shows Bernie and Beto getting quite a bit of traffic. 
And you look over the past year, Beto had far and away the highest peak in late Oct. / early Nov. Although, that isn't really a surprise since he was the only one of these candidates in a competitive race in 2018. The second-highest peak is Elizabeth Warren's DNA test.😬
The candidates who do poorly by this metric are Klobuchar, Brown and Booker. Not really a huge surprise since they aren't really household names. But Beto, Biden, Sanders and to some extent Harris are generating quite a bit more search traffic lately than the other contenders.
