2992 is palindromic, so we often say "two nine nine two" as opposed to how most announcers say "twenty nine ninety two".
When we started an FTC team this year, we were pretty excited to get 8991, because the two "nine"'s are the most stressed syllables in both of our numbers.
Also, I measure the arbitrary worth of a number in mathematics with the lovely website
oeis.org.
2992 has 192 entries
1114 has 287 entries
254 has 2430 entries
118 has 6465 entries
Yeah, the method's kinda biased towards lower numbers...