Damnit!

[volksdragon]

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 18 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Comments

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Nice!

RAWR!

[rawrin.livejournal.com]

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Re: RAWR!

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Uh... Well, there has to be ONE, doesn't there? :)

Re: RAWR!

[rawrin.livejournal.com]

You'd think!

Re: RAWR!

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this thing is manifestly imperfect. I know, for example, that I share my exact name with a famous movie producer. Who lives in the US.

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

Feh. 119.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

There are 88 of me. I'm common.

[siercia]

No, I'm common. 1,537.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Well, I've always thought so. *ducks*

Looking at that site, they don't actually have a list of people's names. What they have is census data (1990 census data, at that) on how many people there are with each given first name and each given last name. They basically multiply the percentage of people with your first name by the percentage of people with your last name to get an estimated percentage of people with both names - which doesn't mean a lot, and means even less when you consider that these are not independent probabilities (which they freely admit, I should note). E.g., if your last name is "Chichester" your first name is more likely to be "Nigel" than if your last name were "Arroyo."

[siercia]

I do believe that I am skeptical of that number.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Too high, or too low?

[siercia]

Too high.

[ahf.livejournal.com]

OK this says there are no people with my last name in the country.... Weird

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

There are 5 people with my name. I'm surprised there aren't more, given that my first name's very common and my last name is found in at least 2 languages. I'm also pretty sure that 1 of the 5 is a very distant cousin of mine; when I was in college, my dad found a remote branch of his side of the family living in Hawaii and they have a daughter named Jessica who's about five years older than me.

[kiteflier98.livejournal.com]

Odd, I got an 18 as well.

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

there are 327 of me.

[talesinsdaughtr.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I got total of 587:)

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Some numbers from Switchboard (which only includes people with listed phone numbers, and has other issues, but at least counts actual people):

There are 9 of scirocco - 11 listings, but 2 are you and 2 are some other dude.

There are 398 of siercia, using only your full first name. Common indeed.

There are no instances of prunesnprisms, illustrating the limitations of this technique.

There aren't any instances of Pru's M, either, raising the question of what their phone listing actually says.

There are 25 of me after removing obvious duplicates.

There are over 100 of biophile6 using either full first name or nickname - I didn't feel like paging through to see the exact number.