# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/141 "2006-10-23T16:06:03Z")
1740 using my proper first name, same number if I use the familiar form (?) and 6209 if I use the more common spelling. ---
**Author:** ![ReneePhillips10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@ReneePhillips10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReneePhillips10)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/142 "2006-10-23T20:25:34Z")
There are 2 of me! This was very interesting… and there were zero of my sister… how strange. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/143 "2006-10-23T20:52:19Z")
17 Lunas! ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/144 "2006-10-23T20:55:26Z")
37 with my given name and last name. 57 if you use the diminutive of my first name (which is what everyone calls me) and my last name. Quite interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/145 "2006-10-23T20:58:00Z")
There are 217 Cecil Adams in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/146 "2006-10-23T21:05:44Z")
Just 6 of the married me. 460 of the single me. I wonder where they get their info and whether any of the other 6 is truly “me” pulled from another data source… I’ve got a decidedly non-Jewish first name and decidedly Jewish last name so… Startlingly few “Zappas” (just over 3,000 in the whole country). Even fewer (990) people actually named Zappa 🙂 Only 1 “Moon Unit” but 22 “Dweezils” (zero of each when I put in the actual Zappa names, which is odd; when I tried just “Moon” I got about 1500 hits). ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/147 "2006-10-23T21:08:37Z")
**Foul!** It says there are **0** with my first name. That is incorrect, though I have not met anyone with my first name, I have met people who have. Plus it showed up in Freakonomics as a rare name, but it did exist. -Yale. ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/148 "2006-10-23T21:14:13Z")
Okay, I take back the cry of Foul! I read the reasoning behind what names do or do not appear. Seeing as how 19% of all people that check this website will have a name that is not in their database, being one of the people with a 0 is actually not unique at all. I feel like I’m a part of something now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/149 "2006-10-23T23:30:01Z")
Nickname - 236,975 First name - 134,986 Last Name - 761,920 Nickname + last name = 602 First + last = 343 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251/150 "2006-10-24T05:07:46Z")
Only 2! I wonder if that means I’m the only one in Canada! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/377251.md?page=7)