"There are 311,764,286 people in the United States of America. If everyone in the U.S. lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost 7 times. That's a lot of people.
The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 151,671 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others.
There are 45,079 people named John Smith in the United States. There are980 people named James Bond, 103 people named Harry Potter , 439people named George Bush, and 31 people named Emily Dickinson. However, Johnny Cash (33 people) songs aside there are, statistically speaking, very few boys named Sue."
This is really meaningless, but it was a fun way to kill a few minutes. I played around with the names of my family members. My husband has the most people with his same name (118), and my youngest daughter had the least (18). How about you? Is your name as unique as you think it is?
I saw this before when I was looking for baby names, but I couldn't remember the address.
ReplyDeleteThere are 19 people with my first and last name. I know one of them lives be me. For a while I had creditors calling me searching for her!
Also, oddly enough there was another Daxton (my son's name) with the same last name born in the same hospital, just two days apart. Different middle name though.
I only know this because my I got a long insurance denial letter, due to my supposed drug problem! It was the other mom.
That's a crazy story about your son's name! It's not an extremely popular name, is it? How interesting that two were named the same within a couple of days.
ReplyDeletefascinating... i'm going to check it out!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting - I'm tweeting.
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