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CoasterMatt 10-24-2006 03:41 PM

How Many Of Me Are There?
 
http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/

There are 1,601 people in the US with the same first and last name as me. :D

(whoops, misplaced a couple digits)

Prudence 10-24-2006 03:42 PM

Apparently I don't actually exist, and neither does anyone in my family.

CoasterMatt 10-24-2006 03:44 PM

Well, the site does say it's in beta :p

Ghoulish Delight 10-24-2006 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prudence
Apparently I don't actually exist, and neither does anyone in my family.

From the FAQ

Quote:

Q: Why isn't my name on the list?
The list of names from the census bureau isn't complete. For privacy reasons, names with relatively few responses were not included in the list. We used this data to create this site. Our site can only be as good as the data we have to work with.
  • Around 1 out of every 10 people will have a last name not on the list.
  • Around 1 out of every 10 people will have a first name not on the list.
Using the same statistical fallacy this site is known for, that means about 81% of people will have both names on the list. In a mathamatical coup our scientists have determined from this information that about 19% of people will have either one or both names missing from the list.


"I think it's important not to take it as a rejection of you personally." Gabriel Caine -- Diggstown.
As for my name, it comes up with 113 (131 if I include the shortened form of my first name). Seems low. Plus, it's a very flawed statistical model seeing as it doesn't take into account the relative odds of certain ethnic first name not matching with other ethnic surnames (e.g. if your first name is Juan, odds would be lower that your last name is Smith than if your first name were John, even if there are the same number of Johns and Juans).

CoasterMatt 10-24-2006 03:56 PM

There's 389,959 people with the last name "Sanchez", but none of them with the first name "Dirty" :evil:

Jughead P. Jones 10-24-2006 05:08 PM

Apparently, I share my name with a whopping 21 people.

Didn't know that there were 21 other "Jughead's" out there.

Motorboat Cruiser 10-24-2006 05:08 PM

nope, nobody else named motorboat. :)

But there are 66 with my real name.

lizziebith 10-24-2006 05:20 PM

1,405,353 other Elizabeths out there, but my last name turns up nobody! Whoo-hoo!

I did find a lot of dead mes last time I googled myself. Yeah, I google myself -- there's nothing wrong with that: it's perfectly healthy!

Matterhorn Fan 10-24-2006 05:52 PM

There are no other people named Matterhorn, but there are 3,390 people named Fan.

JWBear 10-24-2006 06:31 PM

There are 6,057 people in the U.S. with my name.


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