I just found a fun little website that will comb the 1990 census data and statistically extrapolate (that means guess) how many people in the United States have the same name as you. Plugging in my full name, the one on my birth certificate, I got this:
However, when I plug in the name I go by, the one that everyone calls me, the one on my business card, I got this:
It’s the “or fewer” part that has got me feeling all down and existential.
How many of you are there? Go find out, then come back and tell me. Maybe if there are many of you, it will make me feel a lot better about my statistical probabilities of existing.
Wow, I’m right there with ya. There are 4 people named Russell Andes, but 1 or fewer named Russ Andes.
i’m pulling for the 1, but you know how it is with statistics…always that margin of error. it may turn out that there are fewer, in which case, it’s been really great having you as a brother.
I’m a rarity also! I would have been even more non-existant had I been able to type in my full legal name (Melissa Jean Waselovich Linenberger)http://mwaso.blogspot.com/
Yeah, Waselovich is so much cooler than Linenberger! There are supposedly 335 or less of us in the U.S. I’d bet less than 20.
This is a hoot! Where do you find these sites?
I plugged my name in and found out that there is only 1 or fewer of me (I just like to think I am unique). Then I plugged in my four kids. Three of the four are like me–1 or fewer. My oldest has 22 other people named as she is. I guess we like unique names?
That’s okay, it’s good to be one of a kind!
kweenmama, i have no idea how i find these…most of them just find me. 🙂
and how cool to have such a unique family of names!
I’m not EVEN going to try…I don’t know if the system can count that high. 😉