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Skylace Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: How many have your name |
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HowManyOfMe.com | <a></a> | <span>There are <span>1</span> or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A.</span>
| <a>How many have your name? |
http://www.howmanyofme.com/
Not relevant to everyone, but fun none the less. Found it pretty cool that I may be the only one with my name in the States |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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61,023 lukes, but only 'fewer than 336' people with my surname, and only '1 or fewer' with my first name and surname! |
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pirtybirdy 'Native New Yorker'
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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That was fun. With my maiden name, there is 3 of me, and I know that one of those 3 had lived in the same town as me as she was in the phone book up in NY! lol! With my married name there's only one of me. That's because the last name is even unusual in Denmark. lol! |
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faceless admin
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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there are 3 with my name. I know there's at least one other in Britain as he's a Labour town councillor - which has proved very useful for me when people try to track me down... haha |
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eefanincan Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: How many have your name |
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Skylace wrote: | Found it pretty cool that I may be the only one with my name in the States |
I'm not surprised as your last name is not all that common
There are 147 981 people with my first name, 39 665 with my last name and 19 with exactly the same name. Using my maiden name, there are 391 people with the same last name and "one or fewer" with the total name --- so I guess I'm in the same boat as you, Sky! |
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nekokate
Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Where do they get these stats from? How do they know how many people have what name?
Quote: | Osama Bin Laden:
There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Osama Bin Laden |
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Skylace Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: |
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nekokate wrote: | Where do they get these stats from? How do they know how many people have what name?
Quote: | Osama Bin Laden:
There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Osama Bin Laden |
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You have to register your birth with Social Security in the United States. You can check through the Social Security office what names are registered, when, what year, etc.
EDIT: The social security office itself even offers you services to look up baby names so you can see if they are popular and when http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ |
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