# How many of you are there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560 "2008-03-08T03:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/61 "2008-03-13T16:02:13Z")
With my first name: almost 2 million. With my maiden name: 0. With my married name: forgot to check. Finally having a name people can spell: Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/62 "2008-03-13T17:29:14Z")
I’m another one with a nonexistant last name, which I know is wrong, because my dentist has the exact same name as me. Yes, that’s why I chose him. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/63 "2008-03-13T18:07:41Z")
98 of me, of which one is my father. I guess that makes me not only one in a million, but one in THREE million. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/64 "2008-03-14T01:44:39Z")
Apparently there are 3 of me. There are 881 people in the US with my last name, which is quite a bit higher than I would have expected. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/65 "2008-03-14T02:06:15Z")
Only 7 of me. My last name is pretty uncommon, and my first name, while not unusual, is much more common in England than in the US. From googling myself, I know one alter ego is a handyman, another is an academic of some sort, and another is some Christian who just got married and wrote his wife a truly awful religious hyper-glurgy wedding poem. ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/66 "2008-03-14T12:54:25Z")
There are 30,951 of me. You’d think I’d be able to get more done. ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/67 "2008-03-14T13:15:46Z")
2 of me. That matches what I know – I have a distant cousin with the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/68 "2008-03-14T13:24:55Z")
Like **elelle** , there are only two of me in the US. He must be a young’un, 'cause he’s just popped up in vanity Google searches in the last few years. There’s only 2,277 people with my last name, and I know the Stoneman family has been around since before the Civil War… seems likely we’re all basically overextended family. So me and other-me are basically cousins, I’d guess. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/69 "2008-03-14T16:27:21Z")
There are 11 of me in the US. That surprises me as my genealogy research had led me to believe that only my branch of the family shrub spelled it this way. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/70 "2008-03-14T18:30:32Z")
The site claims there are 17 of me, which I thought was a little high, but okay. From previous vanity searches, I know there’s a me in Colorado convicted on drunk driving charges (bad alternate me! bad alternate me!). There’s also an alternate me in Alaska, who won a whistler-blower lawsuit against the state. Thirdly, one of my name-sisters runs a Methodist day care center in Kentucky. My older brother once lived in Waco, and at the time, there was apparently another woman with my name going through an _ugly_ divorce, and she and her soon-to-be ex-husband were in the news. Bro advised me to go by my first name if I visited him. Older bro has 43 versions. Younger bro is fairly common at 233. My father is unique (and he hates his given name). Depending on whether my mom goes by her first (common) name or middle (uncommon) name, there’s either 66 of her or 4. Interesting… ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/71 "2008-03-14T18:44:23Z")
Apparently, the site is only as good as what people wrote on their 1990 census forms. It seems that everyone in my partner’s entire family ignored the census as the site claims his last name does not exist in the US, despite there being at least five people with that last name in three states in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/72 "2008-03-14T19:10:02Z")
Two of me. ChiefScott and his doppleganger. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/73 "2008-03-14T19:13:44Z")
According to the site, there are 115 of us (includes both my full and shortened first name). I happen to know that one of them lives in the same city that I do, as we coincidentally go to the same doctor. He’s about five years older than me and is of a different ethnicity. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/74 "2008-03-14T19:26:43Z")
Only 3 of me according to the site. A little over 100,000 with my first name and fewer than 10,000 with my last name. That’s a little surprising especially about my last name as there is one celebrity with whom I share it. And no, I’ve never met him and have no idea how closely we’re related. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/75 "2008-03-14T20:26:59Z")
Well, there are 28 imposters out there. Have to do something about that. There can be only one! My father is more sensible with 3 people sharing his name in the US, and my mother is unique. ---
**Author:** ![Dying\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dying\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dying_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/76 "2008-03-14T21:53:42Z")
There are none of me. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/77 "2008-03-14T21:58:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dying Butterfly] There are none of me. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Nor of me or anyone with my last name, which will come as a surprise to my parents, siblings, and cousins. I suspect that I actually exist, so I’m dubious of the accuracy of this site as well. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/78 "2008-03-14T22:01:38Z")
I am the only me that there is. And, fun facts, my last name is the 44773th most common name in the US (I am told it is more popular in eastern Canada, but I don’t know if that is true.) There are only 577 of us, and I don’t think I am related to most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/79 "2008-03-15T04:18:25Z")
There are four of me when I use my full first name, which just so happens to be the 1580th most popular name in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560/80 "2008-03-15T04:27:39Z")
I’m another who doesn’t exist. All due to my first name Osiris. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/440560.md?page=5)