I found this website interesting:

How many people have your name?



Nobody should feel forced into sharing personal information, but I'd like to point out that this site says that i am the only person in the United States with my name!!

I'm not sure how accurate this is, however, or where it gets its data.

My daughter's name isn't in there and my son has the same name as me (so, there's at least 2 of us...)

Anyway, how many people have YOUR name?

The data comes from the 1990 census and is approximate only: Site FAQ

There are 26 people in the US with my current name, but no one with my maiden name in the United States.



That's obviously not true, my maiden name is Aebersold. This isn't accurate, sorry Aaron.

Anyway, how many people have YOUR name?

That was interesting!


(and one of them works for the same company I do)

My mother's maiden name is rarer. Only 570 people in the US have that last name (and they're probably all related to us! )

Reading the FAQ, it's more a statistical approach rather than a database approach. If a name (first or last) did not show up enough times, then it isn't included. The FAQ says that 19% of names are excluded.

# There are 10 people in the U.S. named %MY_NAME%.

# There are 37,496 people in the U.S. with the first name %MY_NAME%.
# Statistically the 914th most popular first name. (tied with 27 other first names)

# There are 77,992 people in the U.S. with the last name %MY_NAME%.
# Statistically the 426th most popular last name. (tied with 19 other last names)

Wow. A non-controversial thead on America's Debate.

It'll never last...

But while it does there are a total of eight lucky mofos with the same name as mine.

However, I'm the only one whose name shows up when I Google it. I guess that would make me the Number One Top Dog El Supremo Most High Royal Majesty Head Cheese.

Either that or I've got a really dumb name.

I have the 29th most popular last name.

After reading Nighttimer's post, I thought I'd do a google search and here is the number one find: Luscious Liz Hernandez Sorry folks, this is not me...nor does she look anything like me (unfortunately).

There are 1,556,837 people in the U.S. with the first name Christopher.
Statistically the 13th most popular first name.
99.71 percent of people with the first name Christopher are male.
Names similar to Christopher:
Chris
Christian
Kit???????????

How do you get Kit from Christopher?

The same way you get 'Dick' from 'Richard'.

Suuuure that's not you...


I'm still trying to work a Sharpton dig into this post. Give me a few minutes I'm sure something will come up.

according to the site my first name is statistically the 1st most popular first name. my last name is not found in their database.
if i took my husband's last name there would be 12 people in the us with the same name.

You just got some extra votes for "Member We'd Most Like to Meet"

I can't post what I wanted to in the public forum in reply to this.

BUT:



The last statistic was interesting (!) - it's a male name!! I'm frankly amazed that 3.7% of the people called Julian are something other than male. What next? A girl called Brian, or David? Or a man called Susan (oh, Johnny Cash beat me to it).



What do I win?



Now that I am surprised by. I'd have thought it was a more common name than that.

(To protect my valuable anonymity, I'm not going to tell you my middle name. )

There are 104,989 people in the U.S. with the first name Jan, (I guess some of these are probably female).

There are 40,744 people in Denmark witht he first name Jan.


There are 77,992 people in the U.S. with the last name Christensen. (The results of unchecked Danish immigration)

There are 131,171 people in Denmark with the last name Christensen.


There are 27 people in the U.S. named Jan Christensen.

And 1,195 in Denmark.

according to the site I don't exist, at all. Both my first and last name have 0 results. I have never met anyone in the US with my name, although if you google my name a dominatrix in Portland has all the top rankings.

Neither my first nor my last name exist. Which is not surprising given their origin. However, according to Google, apparently there's a prominent Argentinian journalist who has the same last name as me.

Scouting names I found this little gem: according to this website, my Pimp name is

Professor Truth L. Jazz

Well, there are 0 people with my exact name (not true, but it is true that nobody with my last name is not related to me).
But I found this surprising:


That many? Really?
And as funny as the idea of a female named Julian is, I found this to be absolutely hilarious:

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!!! When I try to imagine what a woman named Boris would look like, I go into a state that can only be described as cardiac arrest.

There are 1,412,852 people in the U.S. with the first name Mark.
Statistically the 18th most popular first name.
99.58 percent of people with the first name Mark are male.

OK so far...makes me wonder a little bit about that .42% though....


There are 0 people in the U.S. with my last name. Soooo, I've got some questions for my parents!

I do have a fairly uncommon last name, as far as I know it's just my great-grandparents family over here that has it (they changed the name when they immigrated).

You named your son Amlord? That's awesome! I love unique names.
I happen to share my first name with millions of male middle easterners.
I guess my mom and dad weren't familiar with Islam back in the early 70's.

That's for my proper first name and married name. My sister-in-law had the same name I now have before she married, and every now and then her high school graduating class messes up and sends the reunion information to me.

Using my nickname, there are 17 people with the same name in the U.S.

My maiden name is a very common one. Here's what the site had to say about it:

This was fun, AMLord--thanks!

According to that webpage, 1,466 people have my name.

There are 155,984 people in the U.S. with the first name Tim.
Statistically the 383rd most popular first name. (tied with 4 other first names)
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Tim are male.
Names similar to Tim:

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

Now, if I put in the name to how people pronounce my last name.

There are 720 people in the U.S. with the last name Milosevic.
Statistically the 36423rd most popular last name. (tied with 2316 other last names)

God that irritates me. I am NOT Serbian nor have no relation to the bung hole. Its MILL - O - SICH. Not Milosevic, not Milosock nor does it even resemble Misopich.

I always laugh at these sorts of questions.

The wonderful think about Alesis'....

Is that I'm the only one.

The Turners however are apparently about 455,952 deep which, after the head count at the last reunion, seems about right.

Three others in the US besides me carries my name. Thanks for a nice diversion during lunch

-There are 11,999 people in the U.S. with the first name Dirk.
-Statistically the 1684th most popular first name. (tied with 114 other first names)
-More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Dirk are male.

-There are 17,998 people in the U.S. with the last name Lind.
-Statistically the 1943rd most popular last name. (tied with 338 other last names)

-There is 1 person in the U.S. named Dirk Lind.

Its not acurate. They say zero people in the US have my last name and I know that is not true from doing past searches for relatives. There's a lot of people with my last name so I dont get why they come up with none, tried twice to be sure.

I have the 10th most popular first name, and the 10th most popular last name. There are 6,572 people in the U.S. named Joseph Thomas.

So far, I take the prize for the commonest name on AD.

One Joe Thomas appeared in a famous photograph called A Great Day in Harlem:

Another one goes simply by Joe, and is an R&B singer:

Not me. I'm only the son of one preacher (though my mom used to be a nun).

Here's one who plays offensive tackle for the Wisconsin Badgers:

Not me! Another Joe Thomas was the oldest living man from February until December 1986. Yet another Joseph Thomas is known in Australia as "Jihad Jack".

I'm starting to feel like a mediocrity, even among those who share my name. Fortunately... There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Jobius.

how many people have YOUR name?

Same for my last name. The explanation FAQ was priceless...

Nothing personal, we just don't recognize that you exist!! Nor yer family!! Nor any other Seamus, either!! Can't say I'm surprised, though. Every teacher called out my name like "Sea-Moose" on the first day of class. Not easy to live down, that. Can't say the real pronunciation is much better: "Shame-Us". Maybe my folks were prescient. The "live up to your name" line wasn't used much on me.

I am well aware of this fact.
Just don't call me "Mike."



It's a very common Hispanic last name.



If the statistics are correct, ONE of them should be female.

As far as I can tell, the most famous "Michael Peralta" is a surfing photographer.

According to this website, 0 people in the US have my last name.

Incidentally, by the by, I was pretty sure I was the only niftydrifty on the internets until used the google and found this.



Two niftydriftys! I'm peeved.