How many people have your same last name?

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mcurphy

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Feb 5, 2003
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My name is fairly common, first and last:


There are 124,282 people in the U.S. with the same last name.

There are 1,958 people in the U.S. with my name, first and last.
 
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DesiPower

Lifer
Nov 22, 2008
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its a scam, it kept showing me the same number over and over again for different names...
 

Soccerman06

Diamond Member
Jul 29, 2004
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There are fewer than 1,574 people in the U.S. with the first name
There are 490,319 people in the U.S. with the last name
There are 2 or fewer people in the U.S

Damn you last name
 

xanis

Lifer
Sep 11, 2005
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1,160,256 with my first name, 140 with my last name. Apparently I'm the only one in the country with my first and last name. :p
 

AyashiKaibutsu

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Jan 24, 2004
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117000 last name
1900 last and first name combined

There's 20 people in the Air Force with my first and last name and if I remember right three people (maybe only 2) with my first middle initial and last name.
 

Iron Woode

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Oct 10, 1999
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my name is rare. There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. with my name.

I do know for a fact there is someone in South Carolina with my first and last name.

It says there are 117 people with my last name. This maybe true but they are not related to me in any way, shape or form.

You see my last name was "Canadianized" when my grandparents emigrated here from the Ukraine to fit in better. I am the only one with this last name in my extended family.
 

amish

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Aug 20, 2004
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heh, I didn't believe this site. but I did a white pages search on my name and confirmed that it was close. they had me counted twice in the white pages. so a total of 3 people with the name ******* *******.

Edit: pretty cool that the filters automatically change your name if you set your profile up right.
 

djnsmith7

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Apr 13, 2004
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According to that site, there are only 282,960 people in the U.S. with my last name. I would have guessed that number would be higher.
 
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KillerCharlie

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Aug 21, 2005
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I'm the only one with my full name, which I believe. The first name is the ~500th most popular, but everyone recognizes it.

There are 2k with my last name. My last name is usually considered an uncommon spelling of a German last name. In my case my great great grandfather named it after the region in Norway he was from.
 
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Arkaign

Lifer
Oct 27, 2006
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I can tell the site has some issues, but they are probably just problematic due to the nature of what they're trying to do.

Site says :

1,574 people have your first name (that sounds about right)

117 people or fewer have your last name (I'll get to this in a sec)

1 or fewer people have your exact name (this is true)

Okay. My dad emigrated to the US from Sweden in 1969. In Sweden, the family name had evolved from Viking days to eventually use the Å to replace the intermediate spelling of Aa. Additionally, there is a hard sound (like you were saying 'AAHCK') at the beginning of the name, but only represented in the Swedish spelling with a single K, which is more commonly associated with that sound in Swedish. When my dad emigrated, he reinstated the Aa, and replaced a single K with 'ck' in order to approximate the correct sound phonetically. The name was already quite quite rare in Sweden, and it's supremely unlikely that anyone else had ever emigrated and altered the spelling the identical complicated ways that he did. In short, I know for a fact that there are less than a dozen legitimate human beings with our exact last name in the world, let alone the United States.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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117 people have my last name...

why the bump?

I had suspected this website was created by OP or made by friend of OP and he was looking for hits (the bizarre post to introduce the question it just, just, makes no fucking sense).

Fine--guys is a supreme troll here, but fine. I guess.

and now the account to bump this thread.


is this an OP alternate account? Or someone creating an account simply to drive up traffic?
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
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well, i already knew this; there is only one family with that name (ours), half of which lives in Italy, half lives in Brazil .. and all of them is us. :)
 

BudAshes

Lifer
Jul 20, 2003
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I was always the only one and now someone has stolen my name. There are 2 of my name in the U.S.. Now I have to hire an assassin to kill the other guy.
 

Colt45

Lifer
Apr 18, 2001
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my last name is fairly rare in the motherland, and pretty much non-existent here.
 

Broheim

Diamond Member
Feb 17, 2011
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145 with my last name

1 or fewer with both first and larstname


wait why the fuck did this thread get dragged out again, I thought I remembered replying to this thread before.
 
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HomerJS

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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There are 1,457,250 people in the U.S. with the first name George.
Statistically the 21st most popular first name.

There are 188,995 people in the U.S. with the last name Washington.

There are 881 people in the U.S. named George Washington.



There are 111,014 people in the U.S. with the first name Karl.
Statistically the 504th most popular first name.

There are 10,901 people in the U.S. with the last name Marx.
Statistically the 3473rd most popular last name.

There are 4 people in the U.S. named Karl Marx.




There are fewer than 1,564 people in the U.S. with the first name Adolf.

There are fewer than 116 people in the U.S. with the last name Hitler.

There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Adolf Hitler.
[Glad to hear it!!]




There are fewer than 1,564 people in the U.S. with the first name Mitt.

There are 1,648 people in the U.S. with the last name Romney.

There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Mitt Romney.




There are fewer than 1,564 people in the U.S. with the first name Barack.
There are fewer than 116 people in the U.S. with the last name Obama.


There is 1 person in the U.S. named Barack Obama.





There are 1,136,718 people in the U.S. with the first name Ronald.

There are 18,168 people in the U.S. with the last name Reagan.

There are 66 people in the U.S. named Ronald Reagan.



There are 1,136,718 people in the U.S. with the first name Ronald.

There are 204,132 people in the U.S. with the last name Mcdonald.

There are 742 people in the U.S. named Ronald Mcdonald.





There are 4,129,397 people in the U.S. with the first name Michael.

There are 663 people in the U.S. with the last name Mouse.

There are 9 people in the U.S. named Michael Mouse.

Uh-oh the Hitler and Obama stats match.

Somebody call Fox News!!