# How Many Of You Are There? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251 "2006-10-20T17:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/1 "2006-10-20T17:29:37Z")
There are 371 of me in the U.S. [How many are there of you](http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/)? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/2 "2006-10-20T17:31:11Z")
None 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/3 "2006-10-20T17:32:09Z")
It does not recognize my IRL first name so there are none of me in the U.S. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/4 "2006-10-20T17:33:07Z")
4,634 ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/5 "2006-10-20T17:33:27Z")
None. Which is, I believe, not entirely correct. I have several relatives in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/6 "2006-10-20T17:35:50Z")
1. I’m a rare gem. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/7 "2006-10-20T17:37:32Z")
Using family name: 59 Using married name: 3 I lost 56 me’s! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/8 "2006-10-20T17:37:36Z")
There’s 613 of me, though I am not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/9 "2006-10-20T17:37:57Z")
First name : none Maiden name : none Married name : lots and lots but under quarter of a million! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/10 "2006-10-20T17:38:29Z")
Only 59. It surprising because I have a very common first name. I guess my last name is more unusual than I thought … . ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/11 "2006-10-20T17:38:46Z")
None of me, either. My first name is matched 421,456, but my last name 0. This is in agreement with what I’ve noticed anecdotally - the only people I know with my last name are my husband’s family. Unfortunately for me, my last name is thisclose to a relatively common last name, and also to a movie star’s name, so my stuff is misfiled quite often. (Still, not as often as when I used my maiden name, which is a man’s first name - I was constantly filed under Firstname, Lastname instead of Lastname, Firstname.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/12 "2006-10-20T17:38:50Z")
It claims there’s only 11 of me, but I look in the phone books of other cities when I’m on travel, and I often find me, so I suspect that’s too low. Probably some of them use another form of the name. And I _know_ there’s a me in Canada, because I keep mfinding him when I do vanity searches. Sonofagun has published, too, like me. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/13 "2006-10-20T17:39:58Z")
846 with my married name. 2 with my maiden name. What a difference a last name makes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/14 "2006-10-20T17:41:02Z")
Like **GorillaMan** & **Swampbear** , zero. Which is a bit disconcerting, since I’m right here. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/15 "2006-10-20T17:41:05Z")
104 of me using my full married name. 52,495 of me (first name) 596,938 of me last name (married) 2,040 of me (maiden last name) zero using my full maiden name. I guess I was the only one before I married. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/16 "2006-10-20T17:41:33Z")
1. I wonder if it’s me or not? (Actually, I’m aware of at least one other – plus a third person, who died in the last few years, setting off some wild rumors about whether or not I was pining for the fjords.) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/17 "2006-10-20T17:41:40Z")
First name: 818,914. Statistically, I have the 52nd most popular first name. (Seriously? I’ve only ever personally known one other person in my life with my first name, and am only aware of maybe 6-8 famous people who share my name) Last name: 12,539 Both: 34 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/18 "2006-10-20T17:42:46Z")
There are: 3,418 people with my name in the U.S.A. That seems low to me, too. I have the 4th most common last name ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/19 "2006-10-20T17:44:58Z")
Using my first name, 149. Using my middle name which is what I go by, 16. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/20 "2006-10-20T17:45:35Z")
There are ten of me, two of which I’ve spoken with on the phone. "What are you wearing? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251.md?page=2)