There are also lots and lots of 'di’s and 'da’s that get the reverse of what they’re after - Francesco da Milano getting turned into Francesco Damilano, for example.
It was my cranky grandfather who externalized his stickler to change us from McN. to MacN. As he put it, “Whoever heard of a syllable without a vowel?” (No, he didn’t speak Czech.) As a result, you can tell what branch of the family we’re in from the spelling, not that we seem to have a great need to differentiate.
It says only one, but I know there’s another me down in southern California as well as a me running around somewhere in Australia. I’ve thought about starting a club
I have a fairly rare* last name, yet there are 49 of me. :eek:
*rare as in there is one other person in my section of the LA phone book with that last name. According to the name site there are 5,737 people with that last name in the US.
Then again, my last name is Acadian, so my ancestors stuck to the former borders of New France for the most part. Given that my first name is moderately popular, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few hundred of me in the province in Quebec alone, and we probably crack a thousand once you lump in the rest of Canadia.
As this is based on U.S. Census data, the difference don’t surprise me. I’d imagine people would tend to make out their census forms with their full legal names, and I’d think the full form of my first name would be much more common for that purpose.
There’s only one of me and that is true of the posted site and google. Using my nickname for the first name it says there are 3 of us. On google I found only one other and she is in Florida but the last name is her married name so she’s not even an original.
Just the one of me. (It’ s better than the zero answer that many are getting.) There are supposedly 516 with the same last name, which is a higher number than I would have expected.