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Off-topic, but why do we have people named Faith, Hope, and sometimes Charity, but I've never heard of anyone with the first name Love?

"There are 1,600 people in the U.S. with the first name Love."
"There are fewer than 119 people in the U.S. with the last name Pratchett."
Source: http://howmanyofme.com/

Most people in the USA have duplicate first+last name....if you live in US, put your name here: http://howmanyofme.com/ Only 3 people have my first + last name

Does anyone know of a site like this for other countries? I live in canada and just wanted to check it out. Just for the heck of it I entered my name into the site above and it came back as 1 or fewer with my first and last name.

Most people in the USA have duplicate first+last name....if you live in US, put your name here: http://howmanyofme.com/ Only 3 people have my first + last name

There are 3,100 surnames in common use in China, the traditional "100 names" do include majority of populace though

I'll post it, no pop-unders for me, with noscript and adblock plus http://howmanyofme.com/people/Sarah_Palin/ I would assume the other two Sarah Palin's aren't nationally known dumb ignorant cunts

Well unless ...

His name is Steve Smith (http://howmanyofme.com/people/Steve_Smith)

Born on October 5th (http://ask.yahoo.com/20061114.html)

From Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles (http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/nc/ne/?id=101575)

that's still a pretty big coincidence !

Guess what...Not everyone can have their own top level domain to match their last name. Lets for a second imagine a world where we even wanted to try this...Think of how many top level domains we would need before all of the smiths could have their own top level domain. I can imagine it now, "Hey! I just opened my new webpage www.smith.0xA48C549B...isn't it catchy? But when you figure out there are 3 million people with the last name smith. Good luck making 3 million tlds that have meaning. Okay, so your last name isn't quite so common as Smith, lets see how many McGrews are out there...10,795...Please give me a list of 10795 meaningful top level domains when you get a chance.

I personally am a little luckier. There are only 330 people with my last name, and I am the only one with my first name. Yet my lastname.com is not available. :-( Like I'd even want it if it was. Isn't the point of the internet anonymity?

That's interesting. The site has been around for a while, and it's based on electoral roll data from the year 2000. These genealogy people seem to think that it's legit, if a little inaccurate, giving numbers in the same vicinity as other sources. It's certainly given consistent results over the years. This is a similar service for USA data, and it gives similar results (rare names give low numbers, common names give high numbers).

You didn't put an asterisk in the first name field did you? You don't have to use a wildcard, you just leave the field blank. If you use an asterisk, it assumes it's part of the name, and gives you zero results.

There's 745 people in the USA with my name ( according to this site ) ... does that mean I have 745 more chances then someone who's only got one person in the country with their name? ... or is it a little more "specific" ? Would suck to have any sort of arabian name even if it is more specific... :F for different reasons obviously.

There are 303 people in the U.S. named Brad Harris. Well shoot, that's almost enough of us to create a small well-regulated militia. HowManyOfMe.com