# How many of you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039 "2008-03-04T16:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/101 "2008-03-05T17:06:37Z")
I am all by my lonesome…although I think there is a distant cousin of my husband whose wife is the same as mine. Maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/102 "2008-03-05T22:21:50Z")
I’m unique. But the site says there are no other people in the U.S. with my last name. Apparently, they haven’t met all my relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/103 "2008-03-05T23:08:46Z")
341 of me. Not surprising - I’ve even got confused with someone else (who owed money) in one place I lived. A character in a Leon Uris book has my name too. (It is not Ari. ) No one with my wife’s first name either. 0, actually. There is one other person in the country with it, according to Google. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/104 "2008-03-05T23:34:24Z")
1,339 with my real first & last name. Zero with my \*nom de bord \* as first name. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/105 "2008-03-05T23:41:05Z")
We’ve done this before, but with recent births and deaths the numbers might have changed. Supposedly there are 127 of me running around this great land of ours. Likely a few elsewhere in the world as well, as a Canadian namesake of mine pops up when I Google myself. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/106 "2008-03-05T23:43:38Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Dang. What are you, Jane Smith? [/QUOTE] Close. I’m married to one of 21,515 as well. I wonder how many couples are named the same as us though. Surely, not too many. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/107 "2008-03-06T00:55:32Z")
There are 21 of me, and I’m vaguely freaked out now. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/108 "2008-03-06T02:39:38Z")
0 of me. 0 of my father. 2 of my mom. While my mother has a very common first name, only 486 have our last name. And nobody has my or my father’s first name (mine I could believe, but my father’s? It’s just a French version of a common English name) ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/109 "2008-03-06T02:45:00Z")
There are 5 of me. If you google me, and discount genealogical links, there are two of me: a prominent member of the Ohio Green Party; and me. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/110 "2008-03-06T03:05:36Z")
Check that. Looks like there’s a Texas wrestler too. That’s three of us. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/111 "2008-03-06T04:00:49Z")
There are zero of me. I’m not surprised; my first name isn’t particularly common, (975th most popular) and according to the site, there are only 2100ish people with my last name. My husband is not only a zero, there are also zero people in the US with even his first name. I think I won’t bother telling him he doesn’t really exist… ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/112 "2008-03-06T04:41:07Z")
There are about 4,000 of me. My first name is in the top 10. My family name is in the top 25. More personal info: If you look in an East San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) telephone book (where I was born and raised), you may find 2-3 pages of listings with my full name or with variations of my first name. I don’t use a middle name in any official documents. Since 9/11, each time I enter the US through LAX (from Japan) or San Ysidro (from Mexico), I get stopped and interrogated in a separate room. I am asked if I have visited South America during my time abroad (never been there). I am searched for scars, piercings and tattoos (don’t have any remarkable scars and absolutely no tattoos or piercings). I am told to give my complete home and work address in Japan and the US (although I’m now a permanent resident in Japan and have no fixed US address). Sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/113 "2008-03-06T05:00:15Z")
Since this is basically a poll, I’ll move it to **IMHO** for you. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/114 "2008-03-06T05:29:06Z")
There are 775 of me. 3 of us live in Raleigh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/115 "2008-03-06T14:23:20Z")
!4 of me, 1 of my Beloved. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/116 "2008-03-06T15:05:23Z")
My name is shared by just under 10,000 people in the US. Just over 10k, if the two most popular diminutive forms are being counted separately, rather than as subsets. Over 5,000,000 with just my first name. 0.5 million with my last. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/117 "2008-03-06T15:15:25Z")
The UK one only adds 1100 more of me to the small city that’s forming. Out of 0.5 million with my given name, and ~93k with my family name. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/118 "2008-03-06T15:34:14Z")
There are 30,945 of me. Heck, I’ve met at least a dozen people with my name. And I’m not in one of those clubs that does that sort of thing either. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/119 "2008-03-08T14:08:22Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] It just calculates the first and last name popularity, and assumes from that from what I can tell. But it can’t compensate for the fact that many names are common together so it will underestimate the number of Jose Martinezes and Olaf Gunnersons and way over- estimate the number of Jose Gunnerson’s and Olaf Martinez’s. [/QUOTE] I agree, and I called BS in the other thread. According to that site, there are 7 people in the U.S. named “Leticia Goldstein.” According to [peoplefinders.com](http://peoplefinders.com) , there are 0. Similarly, the site has 2 people named “Mohammed Chen” and 12 people named “Yolanda Shapiro.” Peoplefinders had 3 Yolanda Shapiro’s and no Mohammed Chens. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039/120 "2008-03-09T03:12:13Z")
**130** for my nickname _vs._ for my **5,826** for my full name. Interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you/440039.md?page=7)