How Many Americans Share Your Name?

Amusingly, the first name I tried, that of a good friend of mine, also came up as one instance in the USA. Amusingly because there was another person with the same name who used to live in the same part of London as I did.

I know there are(? were?) other people in the USA with my name. I went to school with one for c.2 years. We were never in the same class, probably to the relief of everyone since we both were "sciencey" types. Then there was the teacher I had for year who had the same last name. We both liked to read books and were frequent vistors to the (school) library. That caused great fun and confusions since the checkout method was to your last name, the teacher's last name, and room number. So both of us checked-out books with identical entries--the only difference was a child's handwriting versus an adult's--until the librarian made both of use also use our first initials.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the numbers are pretty meaningless. All they do is take the number of people with a certain last name, and then multiply by the percentage of people with a certain first name.

If names were random, this would be meaningful, but they aren't.

Many famous first name-last name combinations will be avoided - there probably aren't actually that many James Bonds.

Other names will be associated with each other based on ethnicity - I'd wager that Vladimir Abramov is a more common name than Vladimir Jones, despite what this web site says.

You may be the only one with your name, but this web site can't tell you that.

OT, but it would be so cool if you could attend this opera about Darwin, and review it for us.

here:
http://richardeinhorn.com/REWhatsNew.html

and here:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Hmm. There are (apparently) 7 Bob O'Hara's, but 385 Robert O'Hara's. Go figure.

There is also 1 or less Bristol Palin. If there is anyone outside of Alaska called Bristol Palin, please make yourself known - you can see the fun that could be had here.

Hmmm...apparently there are only 4 of me. I know at least one of them went to college where i did...

Googling my full name turned up a null result.

But there is only ONE PERSON in the USA with my name! Wow! How about you?

Nope, I don't have your name, I think...

There is, according to that site, one or fewer of me - which makes me even more suspicious of that time my medical records got mixed up with that other (homonymic) guy's...

The site says there are 72 other people with my name.
(I've met a half-dozen or so, none of them my relatives.)

I bet they all get the SSSS every time
they fly, because Kip Hawley's dragnet is infallible.

MRW -- well, pooh! i wanted to be speshul! harumph.

It said there is only 1 person with my full name, but as many as 1576 people with my first name, Abben. I've never met any of them, save for an old, now-passed relative.

This site says there's only one person with my name in the USA.

Though I'm sure there's really none.

Ahh, feels good having a rare name even for a Russian :)

41. Anybody want to change their name? it would be so nice for the Answer to be 42 ...

Just thinking

Now for my post name there are 1 or fewer. Can I add that to my real name to get 42?

Hey... why did my post get removed? I'm certain it had nothing offensive in it. It wasn't a terribly important post, so I don't mind all that much, but its a bit unexpected to see it gone!

I gather Grrl's fingers were slippery! :-) I'm sure its nothing on the stupid things I've written on some blogs...

I wrote something to the effect that the much higher number of different last names compared to different first names came as a surprise. I had naïvely expected there to be more first names. Y'know, families share the same last name and all that.

Also I think I made some comment about how the bias in name choice that poster 2 mentioned differs from country to country and generation, depending (in part) on whimsical things like who the heroes of the day were, etc.

Earth-shattering stuff, eh? (!)