October 17, 2006
I'm Unique--Just Like Everybody Else!
Hey, this is cool.
That's for my married name, and my last name isn't all that uncommon, so woo! Me and the other 12 of us should get together sometime and party.
But big kudos go out to Mom and Dad who picked out a great name for me:
Woo hoo! No Shelby Rosiaks! Well, there was one, but I'm not anymore. Interestingly, according to this site, there are only 510 Rosiaks in the country.
And guess who else is unique?
My niece Seana! So unique she doesn't even register! Apparently this website is based on US Census data, and doesn't actually count first and last name combinations--it counts each separately and calculates the likelihood of someone with that combination occurring. Still, pretty cool.
Posted by Shelby at October 17, 2006 08:48 PMOddly, it says that there are 7 other people with my name. Considering that there are only 510 people in the country with my last name, that seems a little high to me (even though there are lots of people with my first name!)
-Mary
Posted by: Mary at October 18, 2006 10:35 AMThere are 118 people with my name and 225,000 people with my last name only. However, there is only one Annastazia - me.
And everyone wonders why I blog under a fake name. ;-)
Hmm...45,000 Sherri's....92,000 Jacobsons...so 18 of me. Maybe if my swedish ancestors had kept it spelled Jacobsson? Now...my nephew Soren is the only one in the US (and, like Seana, not listed yet). There are 3 Penelope Jacobsons...which I find hard to believe.
Posted by: Sherri at October 19, 2006 10:33 AMI was just about to use this to see if I should become Nell Hampton (: (there are 9 already)....but I'm concerned about the accuracy of HowManyOfMe.com... it says there are 0 people with the last name Papavasiliou in the U.S.A. and I know 3!!!
Posted by: Nell at October 19, 2006 12:48 PM