# How many people in the UK share your name?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 7, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034 "2004-02-07T21:41:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/21 "2004-02-08T00:06:46Z")
No one even has my last name.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/22 "2004-02-08T00:14:25Z")
My last name is Scottish and my first name is “Britt”. Nobody in the UK has my first and last name, or any spelling variation thereof. I guess Scotsmen aren’t fond of naming their children Brit or Britt.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/23 "2004-02-08T00:17:15Z")
288 people have my surname.
4 share my full name
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### Author:  [@blue\_poop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_poop)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/24 "2004-02-08T00:18:13Z")
No-one in the uk shares my name! awwwwww! On the other hand 4290 people share my first name and 197 share my last!
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/25 "2004-02-08T00:18:37Z")
49 people have my first name, though I bet they’re all women. 3794 have my last name.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/26 "2004-02-08T00:19:38Z")
I’m not sure it makes any odds, since I’m not from or in the UK, but hey. 😉
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/27 "2004-02-08T00:22:04Z")
Only 3 people share my last name in the UK. None of these 3 share my first name.
I am also “as rare as a wombats wingnut”.
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/28 "2004-02-08T00:39:04Z")
No one in the UK has my whole name, and what’s more no one has my last ame either. Only about 20 people in the US have it, either.
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### Author:  [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/29 "2004-02-08T00:46:59Z")
There are 20 people on the electoral rolls with the name ‘Elvis Presley’, this doesn’t actually suprise me (I think it’s safe to assume that all of those acquired their names by deed poll).
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/30 "2004-02-08T00:51:55Z")
_Only_ 1,558 of me? I’m surprised, I thought it was more common. (On the other hand, I searched for Stephen, there are probably a fair number of Stevens out there too.)
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### Author:  [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/31 "2004-02-08T00:55:35Z")
This is cool! Does anyone know of a similar page that can look up electoral rolls in the USA?
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### Author:  [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/32 "2004-02-08T00:58:54Z")
Hm, 132 people who share both my first and last name. Not surprising really since both sides of my family emigrated from there. Common enough even that the website displayed the following:
“Your name is common enough to ensure free hire of the social club hall at your reunion party. Mmmmm Cocktails Sausages for all.”
:eek: Gah!!
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/33 "2004-02-08T01:22:14Z")
There are 235 Kylas registered to vote in the UK.
I didn’t bother checking my last name. I have a (nearly) unique surname - my mom and sister and I are the only ones with it, since it’s a hyphenation of my parents’ last names.
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### Author:  [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/34 "2004-02-08T02:08:20Z")
After a good 10 minutes or so, I have discovered the following things about my name(s) and the voting age population of the UK.
1. I would be unique using my current name.
2. My first name is shared by 78 other people who spell it the way I do,
however
1. The common spelling of my first name is shared by a whopping 146,694 people.
2. There are 160 people with my maiden name.
and
1. There is exactly 1 person that has the combination of the common spelling of my first name and my maiden name. I’m thinking of leaving her a message.
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### Author:  [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/35 "2004-02-08T02:50:54Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> My last name is Scottish and my first name is “Britt”. Nobody in the UK has my first and last name, or any spelling variation thereof. I guess Scotsmen aren’t fond of naming their children Brit or Britt.
Cool name. 🙂
2700 share my first name.
118,000 share my surname.
12 have the same name as me.
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/36 "2004-02-08T03:34:56Z")
Have you read Dave Gorman’s book **Lucretia**?
5,235 people have my forename
5,027 people have my surname
Just 4 share both in combination, but I’m sure that would drop to zero if I included my middle name.
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### Author:  [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/37 "2004-02-08T07:10:27Z")
Wow. 84,462 people of voting age named “Trevor” in the UK. Seventy-one share my admittedly Welsh surname. I wonder if we’re all as charming and gregarious?
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### Author:  [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/38 "2004-02-08T11:36:24Z")
Two people with my true name, wonder about the other one.
3057 with my everyday name.
If I wanted to buy a car number plate with my first name it would cost a whopping £225000! - Blimey
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### Author:  [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/39 "2004-02-08T11:49:17Z")
No one shares my name! I am unique! I am one with the Angry Squirrel.
There are 241 people with my last name in the country - I could probably name about 50 of them (family). There are 5 people with my first name in the country. Seeing as I know who two of them are (me and a friend living just outside Cambridge), I wonder who the other three are…
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-in-the-uk-share-your-name/228034/40 "2004-02-08T11:54:52Z")
No one has my full name.
31896 people share my first name.
167 share my surname.
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