People with my name...

[fajrdrako]

I'd be a little more interested if there were options for "how many people in Canada have my name" or, even better, "how many people in the world have my name". But until someone puts up those websites, I live with what I get here.

Turns out there are 186 people with my first and last name in the United States. There are 1,431,356 Elizabeths - is that all? If we added a middle name, what would it come to?


Just how many of me are there and why is that a scary thought?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 186 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Comments

[justinej.livejournal.com]

There's 25 of me in the US and 9 in the UK.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You found a UK site? Cool.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I'm the only person with my first-last name combination in the U.S., but there are 6000 with my first name and 1300 with my last name. (1300 kind of makes me wonder how easy it would be to find out how I'm related to all of them...)

Actually the site said there are "1 or fewer" people with my name. So they're not quite sure I exist. Heh.

I have a double, though. Walking around my neighborhood, strangers keep stopping me and asking about my baby. Which I don't have. But they're convinced they know me and that I have a baby.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So, Rusty, how's your baby?

Actually the site said there are "1 or fewer" people with my name. So they're not quite sure I exist.

That amuses me.

As an Elizabeth, I could be lost in the crowd.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Actually the site said there are "1 or fewer" people with my name.

Me too. But as A Canadian, I don't worry about it.

I wonder if it may be protections within Census data to avoid disclosing personal information?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but I don't think the site is working with any kind of 'data', more like semi-educated guesses. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

How many have your name? (http://howmanyofme.com)

This is why I don't spread the name around much. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Why? Are you not comfortable with having a rare name?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It's the ease of identifiability, I suspect. One of my great-great-grandfathers had a bizarre name (mind, his whole family had names like something out of Cold Comfort Farm): as a genealogist, for me it did at least make him easy to find!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There is that.

Rare names do tend to be memorable, too.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

I'm not comfortable with the idea that any nut job on the internet could see my name and where I live and be waiting for me on my front porch one night.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

How many have your name? (http://howmanyofme.com)

I also know there is an Australian showjumper with my name. But I doubt any of them has my middle name.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

An Australian showjumper - ! I like that.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It was a good few years ago, but we saw her on TV.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Just by googling my name I know there's someone is sports, someone in the Board of Education here, a woman who died in Massachusetts in the 17th century.... and a woman who lives a few blocks away from me in the Glebe, though she must be very old now.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, there are actually two of me in the US! Almost certainly descendants of migrants, of which there are a hell of a lot...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many in Canada? In Toronto, perhaps? There seems to be a Maltese community there, though I've no idea how big it is.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Sizeable, I'd say, going by the ready availability of Kinnie... You could probably get Twistees there too. And pastizzi. Not to mention spagetti biz-zalza tal-fenek. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think I'm overdue for a trip to Toronto! For all those reasons.

[katkim.livejournal.com]

I used a UK one the other day and my name is unique, as I'm the only one with my name :)

http://www.yournotme.com/testaspnet/default.aspx

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What fun! I tried that and got: "Your name is common enough to ensure free hire of the social club hall at your reunion party. Mmmmm Cocktails Sausages for all."

Wanna party?

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

The numbers have to be bogus, because I get the one or fewer (on my call name that is to be expected, but on my tax name too) but a Google turns up others. It might be based on some kind of probability based on a popular names database, instead of actual census or white pages search of real names.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think I read that this was the case - somewhere on the site? So it's not even based on statistics, just name probabilities, which follow fashions and aren't subject to any kind of rationale.

Still: it has a certain amusement value as a game.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

I just checked. On one form of my tax name there is exactly one (meaning me) and on other forms "one or fewer" meaning not me either.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

A true rarity! but we knew that.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I'm the only one of me in the US, too. I'm the only one of me who comes up when I google myself, too -- the other sites are all Hungarian. Apparently my first name is a word in Magyar, and my last name a Hungarian given name.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Is that a coincidence? Or do you have a Hungarian name on purpose?

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Pure coincidence. And rather shockingly amusing the first time I googled myself [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I can imagine!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Like an alternate universe self....

[maaseru.livejournal.com]

Just 6 if Gibson, and 17 if Lee. Not too popular, me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I find that hard to believe. I mean, Lee? Aren't there Lees all over the place? It's both an English name and a Chinese name. Though I suppose it can be spelled different ways. And your first name isn't that obscure.

I think this quiz is highly suspect.