this is kinda cool. the google image search thread lead me here.
names.whitepages.com
it shows you how many people share your name or just your last name, and where people with the name are concentrated.
there are 568 people with my last name listed, and we are concentrated in the great lakes region.
and only two with my first and last name, which are me and my dad.
i gather if your name is john brown, there are way more than two of you. but if you changed your legal name to quasimofo brown you might be more of an original.
wbjones
UberDork
12/27/12 10:04 a.m.
2268 with same first and last name ... most concentrated in DC, Miss, Al (where I was born) Va, NC (where I've lived since '55), Del, and Ga ... 2/100 thousand
368,805 with my first name ( as of Feb 2011 ) of which 62% are over 55 ( that'd be where I fall in .....)
1,408,163 with my last name ....
makes is kinda easy to get lost in the shuffle
Morbid
Reader
12/27/12 10:05 a.m.
428 with my first name; 10 with my last name; 365,272 with my maiden name; 909 with my birth-last name.
I'm the only one with my first-last combination.
0 people in the U.S. have this name
838 have my first and last name. No one has my full name though. I find that odd...
Of my real name, I'm 1 in 1038. My first name is hysterically popular (4th this year), my last name not so much.
3 people with my exact name in the US. They all have my prior addresses.
A Sperlo distribution map:
I need to talk to my logistics manager. We need better distribution.
666 people have my first/last combination.
64, would have thought there were more.
44 in the US, not surprised.
Neal is 701st in names in 2011, again, not surprised
My wife is one of one, but I already knew that
I'm one of three. One in Texas, one in Alabama, one in Kansas. I know the one in Alabama, no (close) relation.
First name is #1 for 2011. Last name is #99,7XX.
82 in the US, only one in Georgia
In reply to aussiesmg:
Yeah, so's mine.
Funny though, her brother got married about a year before we did, and married a girl with my wife's first name, so for a while, there were two young ladies within two years of age with the same name in the same immediate family. Was kind of a logistical PITA.
There are 9 people with my wife's first name and maiden name (she appears to be one of their listings).
Will
Dork
12/27/12 10:40 a.m.
492, including a well-known actor, an NFL player, and an MLB pitcher. No point in google searching my name.
slefain
SuperDork
12/27/12 10:40 a.m.
Ha, they have me down twice in Georgia.
There are 700+ Medfords in North Carolina, and I'm related to all of them if they are in the western side of the state. My family has lived in the Haywood County, NC area for over 200 years.
There's a rack ton of Medfords in Texas for some reason. Nobody I know.
There is only one of me.
37 people in the US share my last name. I know about 1/3 of them and the rest are probably distantly related.
776 of me, 44 here in Ohio.
wbjones
UberDork
12/27/12 10:55 a.m.
slefain wrote:
Ha, they have me down twice in Georgia.
There are 700+ Medfords in North Carolina, and I'm related to all of them if they are in the western side of the state. My family has lived in the Haywood County, NC area for over 200 years.
There's a rack ton of Medfords in Texas for some reason. Nobody I know.
does that include my golf playing friend Jim ( I played BB against him in HS in the mid '60's ) ? ( brother of the doing time ex-sherriff ? )
There is one person in the country with my name.
Luke
UberDork
12/27/12 11:09 a.m.
Interesting link!
No one in the US with the same name as me.
182 share my surname...78 of them in Texas.
One in the US, although Googling my (proper) first and last name gets some doctor of chemistry auf Deutschland.
I find this amusing, since I got my last name through a clerical error in 1921. German letter pronunciation vs. English pronunciation.
There was someone with my mother's first and last name in the same city where we lived in the 80s. Elderly woman of no relation whatsoever.
According to that site, 75 in the US with my last name. Oddly enough, some of the hits in Michigan are the same as names of people we're related to (Uncle George, etc) but they have or at least should have a different last name. Site has some missing info: My Mom is listed with the wrong last name - she took a different name quite a ways back. Neither my youngest aunt is nor I have a listing.
Three hundred sixty nine. Pretty well spread out. 11 in Georgia. I found myself, but they have as my address the house my ex and I bought 20yrs. ago. I'm pretty happy with that..
EDIT: some kind of format burp
556 of me (most in CA). 3 of the 14 in WA (where I live) are me. My wife's a lot more special: only 201 with her married name (mostly in CA) and only 9 of her maiden name.