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I apparently don't exist. There are 0 people in the US with my name.
There are 58,494 people in the US with the first name Robyn. There are 0 people in the US with my last name.
There are also no people in the US with my mom's maiden name.
Then again...their data is off. There are currently 300,077,664 people in the US (when I looked at this website). The names database says there are 299,968,595 people in the U.S.
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There is no one in the US with my first name. (I know of two others. One once wrote a kid's book, and the other is an artist who does leatherwork sculptures. She was really psyched when we met.) There are 41,996 people with my last name. And no one with my full name.
There are 40 people with my husband's name, which doesn't surprise me, because one of them lives just down the road a bit.
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505 447 have my first name 2010 have my last name 3 people have my full name
But if I went to the UK, I'd be the only one.
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Only 13 other people with my name and one of them is my father.
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Shame it doesn't include middle names. There are more people with my first and last name in the UK than there are in the USA (according to that, anyway) - 486 in the USA and 498 in the UK.
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quote:There are 109,489 people in the U.S. with the first name Mitchell. Statistically the 491st most popular first name. (tied with 4 other first names) 98.63 percent of people with the first name Mitchell are male.
Who are these 1.37% of female Mitchells? I feel for them.
quote:There are 8,999 people in the U.S. with the first name Mitch. Statistically the 1951st most popular first name. (tied with 187 other first names) More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Mitch are male.
I suppose I should go with this. Those who call me Mitchell die anyway, so it's not really my name (except legally).
No one in the U.S. has my last name. And that's true. Only 8 people in Canada share my last name, and they're all related to me.
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I personally have met one person who has my first and last name, but his first name is spelled differently from mine. I also know of one person in my state (whom I haven't met) who has the same first and last name that are both spelled like mine.
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4,923,984 have my first name - Hey, it is very common
420 have my last name - Considering how many different spellings the name has taken over 800 years, I'm not surprised that there are so few.
7 people have my full name - hey, I'm almost special
ETA: According to the UK search, there are only 10 people with the same full name as me - I'm "as rare as a wombats wingnut"
When I put my board name in to both searches, it proved that I am unique. As the UK search revealed, "You don't exist. Go and look in the mirror. If you see something then we're wrong else you're some kind of magic pixie, elf, carrot or vampire. Sorry."
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There are 137,986 people in the US named Tamara. There are 16,318 people with my last name.
8 people in the US have both my first and last.
If I use Tam, there aren't any of us.
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Whoa, Tam....you and me are both Tamaras....
So that accounts for 2 of us
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quote:Originally posted by jenovatrix: Whoa, Tam....you and me are both Tamaras....
So that accounts for 2 of us
Woohoo! 2 down, 137,984 more to find!
- Tam
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hehe, my name is about as common as John Smith. My mother on the other hand is one of a kind. There is 1 person in the U.S. with her name. lol
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513 people in the US with my full name. 223 in the UK. But apparently I didn't exist before getting married because there are no people in the US or UK with my maiden name (and I was still using it in 1990). If you google my maiden name you get my dad (about eleventy-thousand times) and an area in southwestern Germany. A few years back, you could also get one of my dad's cousins and some girl in South America (Argentina?). I guess they've gotten pushed to the back of the pack.
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There are 43,495 people in the U.S. with my first name. There are 6,149 people in the U.S. with my last name.
However, I have to laugh very hard when it says only one person in the U.S. has my name...I'm named after my mom, and our first and last names are identical.
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Wahoo, I am not unique! There are 7 of me, and I have the 94th most common first name and the 8,331 most common last name. And to think that Google just shows me and a dogsledder in Alaska. Maybe the other 5 of us are in hiding somewhere.
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1,885,086 people with my first name. 932,902 people with my last. 3,377 people with my same name, including a "B" list actor & another guy who lives in this town that I used to recieve bad reports for in school. He also wrecked his van once (when I was driving one too). Everyone thought it was me.
My 7 year old: 8,999 with her first name & same # as above with the last. 28 people who share her same name, including a "B" list actress.
For my wife: 412,457 with her first name. 1,283 with the same name. No famous people though. If you use her maiden name then there are 5,669 with her last name & 8 other people with the same first & last.
My Step-Daughter is the funny one...according to the site there is no one in the US with her first OR last name. Apparently, her Dad's side of the family doesn't exist, & neither does she. I know there are other girls with her first name, a quick search of MySpace proves that.
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0 people in the U.S. with my first name. 4,470 people in the U.S. with my last name. Even for a Canadian, I thought I was was really special until...
0 people with the first name Alyssia, Rydell, Antigone, Yul, Siegfried, Osama, Siegmund, Stone (Stone Phillips), Gwendoline, Theophile, Horatio, Hermione,...
0 people named Barack Obama.
Oh well. At least I've never met anyone with the same name as me.
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this site isn't right. I can name at least 3 people with my last name. Granted, they are family (I am using my maiden name), but that is still 3 people.
This site says: Antonia There are 58,494 people in the U.S. with the first name Antonia. Statistically the 709th most popular first name. (tied with 14 other first names) 89.74 percent of people with the first name Antonia are female.
Cubino There are 0 people in the U.S. with the last name Cubino. This name is not found in our database, this means the name is relatively uncommon. what this means.
AND, it also says that "There are 299,968,595 people in the U.S". I thought the 3 millionth person was just born a few weeks ago?
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There are 2,560,232 people in the U.S. with the first name Richard.
There are 32,997 people in the U.S. with the last name Davies.
There are 282 people in the U.S. named Richard Davies.
There are people called 2138 Richard Davies in the UK.
Other Richard Davies's I can think of are a Welsh actor, a member of Supertramp (Rick Davies), a Austrialian singer, & I think there's Darts player called Ritchie Davies.
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There are 395,959 people in the U.S. with the first name Denise.
There are 1,770 people in the U.S. with the my last name.
There are 2 people with my name in the U.S.A.
Wow, that's one more than I've ever known of before. My last name is extremely rare on the West Coast, but evidently it's relatively common in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas (Dad's paternal family is all in GA). I can almost guarantee that at least 90% of that 1,770 with my last name is in one of those three states.
Edited because I do know of one person with my name.
EAgain - I checked my Dad's name, and evidently he doesn't exist. This is what it said: "While both names you entered were found in our database, neither was common enough to make it likely that someone in the U.S. has that name." It isn't likely that my dad has his name?
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There are 505,447 people in the U.S. with my first name. There are 1,271,867 people in the U.S. with my last name (7th most popular, and no, it ain't really Burns).
There are 2,143 people in the U.S. with my full name.
(And, in a few weeks, after I get hitched:
First name obviously remains the same. There are 44,995 people in the U.S. with my married last name.
There are 76 people in the U.S. with my married name.)
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From Danver Carew's UK link, I get 0 people with my name in the UK. It said this: "You don't exist. Go and look in the mirror. If you see something then we're wrong else you're some kind of magic pixie, elf, carrot or vampire. Sorry."
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0 people with my last name in the US or UK. Its a simple variation on a common group of names, but for some reason this particular spelling is uncommon. The "?" form, "S?" form, "?s" form, "Mc?", etc, are quite common, along with many others, but "S?s" variant is unique for some reason. Everyone in the US with my last name is a close relative. I'm the only one with my first and last name combination even though my first name is extremely common.
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quote:More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Patrice are female.
This really surprised me! I'm female and I was named after a female, but "Patrice" is technically a unisex name. All the French, Belgian, and Swiss Patrices that I've found googling have been male.
Maybe it's like "Taylor," where it used to be primarily a male name but most babies named that now are female.
I think it's more likely that you're talking french vs english versions. There are plenty of names that are opposite gender between french and english. Alexis is one. I recall a Belgian and a French Canadian being surprised that was my niece's name.
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The list of names from the census bureau isn't complete. For privacy reasons, names with relatively few responses were not included in the list. We used this data to create this site. Our site can only be as good as the data we have to work with.
Around 1 out of every 10 people will have a last name not on the list. Around 1 out of every 10 people will have a first name not on the list. Using the same statistical fallacy this site is known for, that means about 81% of people will have both names on the list. In a mathematical coup our scientists have determined from this information that about 19% of people will have either one or both names missing from the list.
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Q: Does the program really know how many people have the same name as me?
No. The program returns an estimate based on available data. It should be considered a "ballpark figure". It will usually return an answer in the right general area, but the chances of the figure being exactly right are very low.
A full discussion of the accuracy of the program may be found here.
But there are approximately 599 people with my full name.
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There are 5,999 people in the U.S. with the first name Marita. Statistically the 2397th most popular first name. (tied with 365 other first names) More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Marita are female.
My last name (in my profile) is not in the database; no surprise there.
I am the only one in the US with my name. I knew that already.
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There are no other people in the U.S. with the first name Radharani.
There are 131,986 people with my surname.
And only me with my full name.
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quote:More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Patrice are female.
This really surprised me! I'm female and I was named after a female, but "Patrice" is technically a unisex name. All the French, Belgian, and Swiss Patrices that I've found googling have been male.
Maybe it's like "Taylor," where it used to be primarily a male name but most babies named that now are female.
I think it's more likely that you're talking french vs english versions. There are plenty of names that are opposite gender between french and english. Alexis is one. I recall a Belgian and a French Canadian being surprised that was my niece's name.
"Patrice" is unisex- it's just waaaaay more common as a man's name in French-speaking places. What surprised me was that statistically no Frenchies have named their sons Patrice here in America.
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11,999 people in the US share my first name. 8,489 share my surname. No people in the US share both names with me.
I am also apparently the only me in the UK as well. Reassuring. I wonder if it would work as an argument at passport control...
Interestingly, although my "real" first name, Katherine, is more common than the name I actually use, there are apparently none of me in the UK at all under that name... Sshh!
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