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Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
 
There are 15 people in the US with my exact name.
There are 2,190 people in the U.S. with my last name.
There are 2,074,283 people in the U.S. with the first name Thomas. Which is statistically the 11th most popular first name.

Check it out: http://www.howmanyofme.com/search/


 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
There are zero of me. I knew something was wrong! How do you deal with something like this? I'ma see a shrink.
 

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Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
 

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There are 298,469 people in the U.S. with the first name Sean.

Statistically the 209th most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)

98.99 percent [!?] of people with the first name Sean are male.

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Accuracy:

Q: How accurate is this program?

A: More accurate than a Magic 8-ball. Less accurate than distributing and collecting 300 million surveys.

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Well, gee, that narrows things down.
 

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Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
 
There are only 126 people in the US with my exact name, but of the people with my first name, 88.86% of them are male.

Yeah, I know it only has to do with the spelling, my mother used the masculine spelling of my first name. But still...
 

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Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
 
Hmmm, 0 with my exact name, and 0 with my last name... That doesn't seem right.
 

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Posted by gsim1337 (Member # 10168) on :
 

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There are 6 people in the U.S. named Andrew Wiggin.

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I wonder if they've read Ender's Game?
 

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Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
 
There's 23 of Me and one of them is the kicker for the Baltimore Ravens.
 

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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
Happy Camper! Long time no see!


There are 106,489 people in the U.S. with the first name...
There are 65,993 people in the U.S. with the last name...

And apparently there are only 23 people with my exact name. Hmmm...
 

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Posted by gsim1337 (Member # 10168) on :
 
Some more Wiggins:

There are 5 people in the U.S. named Peter Wiggin.
No Valentines:(
I forgot the parents' first names.

Haha-There are 113 people in the U.S. named Harry Potter.
 

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Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
 
I was really surprised to find that my name was among the top ten most common names. In general, I tend to run into few people who have the same first name as I do.
 

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Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :
 
0 people with my last name according to this site. Uh-huh It's not really *that* uncommon. I think there are 2 people with my exact name.
 

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Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
 
There's 2 people with my exact name. And I found the other through whitepages.com.... intriguing...
 

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Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
 
There are 14,368 people in the U.S. with my last name. And that seems high to me. I've never (ever) met one, or heard of one, to whom I was unrelated. 10 people with my same name.
 

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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
0 ppl in the USA with 'Blayne' I feel so special.
 

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Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 

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There are 200,979 people in the U.S. with the first name Alexander.
# Statistically the 311th most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)
# 98.51 percent of people with the first name Alexander are male.

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There are 0 people in the U.S. with the last name Khayat.
This name is not found in our database, this means the name is relatively uncommon.

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So, none of me exist in your country.
 

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Posted by Perplexity'sDaughter (Member # 9668) on :
 
There are about 2,000 other people with my exact name.

There are 692,927 people in the U.S. with the first name Melissa.

There are 836,912 people in the U.S. with my last name.

Wow, I feel special...not.Ü
 

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Posted by martha (Member # 141) on :
 
I'm the only one. I was also the only one with my maiden name. It's kinda nice.

I have a friend who has the same name as some guy in Nebraska who keeps getting his license suspended for DUI. My friend is a good driver, but has been pulled over for speeding a couple of times. Each time the cops have detained him for having a suspended license, in spite of the fact that my friend presents a valid license and possesses a different middle initial, different social security number, and different skin color from the guy in Nebraska! Guess the police don't bother keeping that sort of trivia in their database.
 

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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
2 people in the US with my name. I'm pretty sure that's me (now in Canada, though), and a younger-than-me golfing star.
 

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Posted by Samuel Bush (Member # 460) on :
 
http://despair.com/individuality.html


 

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Posted by Samuel Bush (Member # 460) on :
 
166 with my exact name
Samuel - 460,452
Bush - 107,989 (not counting numerous botanical objects with names such as the Russian thistle bush)
 

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Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
 
There are 4,500 people in the U.S. with my first name.

Zero people in the US with my last name (not true, I know that there are four - My surname's rare enough that there are only about three hundred of us and we mostly know about each other).

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm the first and only person in the world with my combined names. In the scheme of individual traits, though, names come pretty far down the list.

Interesting to note that there are 1,098 people in the U.S. named James Kirk, 40 people named Malcolm Reynolds, but there is only (a chosen) 1 named Buffy Summers.
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
130
 

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Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
 
0
 

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Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :
 
There are 0 Orson Cards and 32 Scott Cards.

And 8 of me!
 

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Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
 
7 of me.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
This site was linked to over on the other side a few months back.

There are still none of me. *shrug*
 

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Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
There are 265 people in the U.S. named Christopher Morse.

Oh, I need to start making invitations for the convention!
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
There's nobody in the US with my exact name. Not even me. o_O

My first name, however, is the 2,762nd most popular name in the US for a girl.
 

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Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
 
First Name 4,991,477 (most popular)

Last name 35,996 (962 most popular)

Exact name 599
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
It claims there are NO other people in the US with my married last name. Which is rather interesting, because how did I get it ? And I know my ex has a second cousin or cousin removed or something with the same full name (even middle!!) as me.

Wtih my maiden name, I have 154 name-twins.
 

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Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
 
There are 8 of me.
 

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Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
0 first, 0 last, and 0 with the combination.
 

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Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
 
But the most wonderful thing about Annie is I'm the only one.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I think that this is flawed. I am pretty sure there are more than 200 or so people with my name.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Of course it is. They say as much.

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First and foremost, the program is based upon a convenient fiction. Without getting too technical, the program makes the assumption that a person's first and last names are independent of one another. What this means is it assumes that the probability of a person having a particular first name is the same no matter what last name they have. It isn't.

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Second, the data is old. The data for this program comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 census.

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Third, the data appears biased towards more formal versions of names. The data comes from forms mailed to the Census Bureau. It appears most people put their full, formal version of their name on the forms rather than a nickname.

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Fourth, not every name is on the list. A certain number of instances of a name were required to even make the list. About 10% of all responses were not included on the list because they appeared too few times. So, uncommon names are not represented on the list.

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Fifth, we failed to make the required blood sacrifices to the gods of programming and statistics. Surely they will plague our endeavor with errors and inaccuracies.

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Interesting to note that there are 1,098 people in the U.S. named James Kirk, 40 people named Malcolm Reynolds, but there is only (a chosen) 1 named Buffy Summers.

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
@ tt&t
 

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Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
373,461 will my given name and 1,271,867 with my last name. They are claiming 1,583 good matches. That seems low. I have recieved misdirected telephone calls for at least that number.
 

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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
I am unique under my married name.

There are three of us with my maiden name.
 

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Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
390 have my last name, my name is unique in at least the US, and I know that as a fact to.
 

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Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
 
572,940 Peters
1,862,805 Joneses
3,558 Peter Joneses

Or appr. 1/40,000 males in the US.
 

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Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
# There are 3,961,085 people in the U.S. with the your first name
# Statistically the 4th most popular first name.
# 99.55 percent of people with your first name are male.

--> Not surprising

* There are 2,010 people in the U.S. with your last name.
* Statistically the 15004th most popular last name. (tied with 283 other last names)

--> Also not surprising

There are 27 people in the U.S. with your full name

--> This is just math (percentage of first name occurrence in the population at large times how many people have my last name).

-Bok
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
There are 44,995 people in the U.S. with the first name Jenna.
Statistically the 828th most popular first name. (tied with 10 other first names)
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Jenna are female.

No one has my last name, not even me.
 

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Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
 
hi rivka
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Originally posted by Bokonon:
# There are 3,961,085 people in the U.S. with the your first name
# Statistically the 4th most popular first name.
# 99.55 percent of people with your first name are male.

--> Not surprising

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