Stupid Evil Bastard: I am unique. Just like everybody else.

I am unique. Just like everybody else.

Posted by Les on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 10:44 AM. Read 1018 times. Tags: about me

Actually it turns out I’m not all that unique after all, but still more unique than ***Dave.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
9
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

I technically cheated though and used only the shortened version of my first name, Les, as there’s only 8,999 people in the U.S. with that first name of which 99.9% are male. Switch over to my full first name, Lesley, and the number of people with the same first and last name in the U.S. jumps to 33 with 34,496 people sharing that first name (with that spelling) of which 82.61% are female, which explains why so much of my mail comes addressed to the wrong gender. No option for putting in a middle name if you have one.

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windago

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 11:15 AM

Name I legally changed to 10 years ago is awesome!

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person with my name
in the U.S.A.

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Old name was pretty damn anonymous:

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Karri

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 04:49 PM

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There are:
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people with my name
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Well aren’t I special

Sadie Jane

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 05:52 PM

Well, I’m no good at html, but there are 28 other Sadie Morrisons in the U.S. That’s unique enough, I suppose.

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Ragman

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 06:12 PM

34 more of me, and I have a last name shared with less than 3000 total.

Benior

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 07:01 PM

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There are:
64
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

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LuckyJohn19

Posted on 10/23/2006 at 07:04 PM

According to the ‘How Many’ site I am alone.
But how accurate is it?
I’d suggest it’s severely lacking in its ability to find names.
When I google my name and find me here and here, I realise it’s obviously not picking up all stuff.
I was interested to see my name was part of an Alcatraz inmate’s name - #1396.

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Moloch

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 01:49 AM

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Les

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 06:55 AM

Windago, are you really Prince?

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Hairboy

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 08:18 AM

With no name change needed, I am unique.

But then the world would really be in trouble if there were more of I.

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There is:
1
person with my name
in the U.S.A.

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zilch

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 09:01 AM

Now I know I’m in trouble:

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There are:
666
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

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kathy

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 10:26 AM

Using my legal married name, which is a pretty typical western female first name paired with a pretty common chinese last name (which is actually a shortened version of a somewhat common Tamil name)…

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There is:
1
person with my name
in the U.S.A.

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Using the unshortened Tamil name (husband’s before he legally changed it upon getting citizenship),

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There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

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and using my maiden name (Wow, I expected more people to have that last name),

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There are:
18
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

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Zach

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 01:42 PM

Using my full first name and last name, I get 24.

Using the short version of my first name, I get 0.

Last_Hussar

Posted on 10/24/2006 at 10:14 PM

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There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

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Only 1,620 people in the US have my surname. In my government department of over 80,000 people only 3 people have my surname- me and my wife are two of them.

Here’s an interesting fact- all the people born ‘Baker’ in the UK are decended from 1 of 14 families in the 13th/14th century (this was on the radio a few years ago- it may be a 13 families). So if you are an American or Australian Baker- actually a Baker- i.e. of English decent rather than a corruption at some point in the past (thank you Ellis Island Officials) you are also likely to be related to these 14 families. There was a big project where they tested a load of peoples’ DNA and established relationships.

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Master_of_puppets

Posted on 10/25/2006 at 01:00 AM

No one in the US have my exact name (probably has to do with slightly different spelling of my first name), but my last name is the 50th most common last name.

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LuckyJohn19

Posted on 10/25/2006 at 01:59 AM

That’s what I like about SEB; it points me in all sorts of directions.