How common is your NAME

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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    My last names (yes two) are both very uncommon. One pops up in the Philippines (with which I have no common ancestory) but is likely from Roumania or Yugoslavia and means "furrow" or "tea kettle". The other last name is Basque. Combined with a rarish first name which, in it's Spanish version is not really used in English -- well, I use the variant names in different countries because most people mispronounce something.

    i think if I ever publish a book with my full name, most of my friends would not know it was from me. C'est la vie.
  • JennySmith574
    JennySmith574 Posts: 4 Member
    According to namestatistics.com, my last name "is the #6665 most common last name... Around 5000 people have" my last name. My first name, though, seems pretty unique. namestatistics.com says "RINDA is a very rare female first name."
    Very few females in the US have my first name, and according to a couple of other sites, it hasn't been used since 1885, which could have been my great-grandmother. I'm told I'm named after her.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    three of my cousins have the exact first and last name as I do... thats what happens when you are Italian.
  • becs_91
    becs_91 Posts: 180 Member
    According to namestatistics.com, my last name "is the #6665 most common last name... Around 5000 people have" my last name. My first name, though, seems pretty unique. namestatistics.com says "RINDA is a very rare female first name."
    Very few females in the US have my first name, and according to a couple of other sites, it hasn't been used since 1885, which could have been my great-grandmother. I'm told I'm named after her.

    LOL, I just put my last name into that and it couldn't even give me a statistic. It just said:

    "_______ is a very rare last name
    Very few last names in the US are _________
    Be proud of your unique last name!"

    Ironic considering I'll be taking my husband's name soon and it's apparently the #4 most common last name in the US. Haha.

    "Becca" was also apparently quite popular the year I was born, or at least where I grew up. There was ALWAYS at least one other Becca in every class I had in school!
  • becs_91
    becs_91 Posts: 180 Member
    three of my cousins have the exact first and last name as I do... thats what happens when you are Italian.

    Greeks too! Sooooo many cousins with the same name. We usually have to throw in middle names or something to differentiate lol
  • Elf_Princess1210
    Elf_Princess1210 Posts: 895 Member
    My first name is common, but i'm not sure about my last name.
  • redstar7
    redstar7 Posts: 25 Member
    My last name is according to name statistics, is #53542 most common last name in the US, and my first name is #761 most common.
  • JennySmith574
    JennySmith574 Posts: 4 Member
    According to namestatistics.com, my last name "is the #6665 most common last name... Around 5000 people have" my last name. My first name, though, seems pretty unique. namestatistics.com says "RINDA is a very rare female first name."
    Very few females in the US have my first name, and according to a couple of other sites, it hasn't been used since 1885, which could have been my great-grandmother. I'm told I'm named after her.

    LOL, I just put my last name into that and it couldn't even give me a statistic. It just said:

    "_______ is a very rare last name
    Very few last names in the US are _________
    Be proud of your unique last name!"

    Ironic considering I'll be taking my husband's name soon and it's apparently the #4 most common last name in the US. Haha.

    "Becca" was also apparently quite popular the year I was born, or at least where I grew up. There was ALWAYS at least one other Becca in every class I had in school!

    It said the same thing for mine, lol. I actually did my husband's name and it said his first name is very rare, too. His name is David. U.U So, I don't trust that site now, lol.
  • JennySmith574
    JennySmith574 Posts: 4 Member
    OK, so I tried whitepages.com and is says that as of February 2011, there are only 782 other people in the U.S. that have my first name, and 4,761 people in the U.S. that have my last name, for 2011. Actual statistics, and it even gives a meaning and origin for some. Mine's English.
  • CATindeeHAT
    CATindeeHAT Posts: 332 Member
    My first name is Catherine and my middle name is Elizabeth...


    ...and so is Kate Middleton's...
  • jerbear67
    jerbear67 Posts: 247 Member
    There are 2,173 people in the US with my first and last name
  • 8Spokes
    8Spokes Posts: 35
    My first name is common in Greece...but most folks in the US have never heard it before. . my maiden name, one of a kind. My married name is not really that common, either.
  • namari
    namari Posts: 54 Member
    I think super common in fact when i went to get a blood test my name was called and an elderley woman also stood up same first and last name in the same room (was not related just coincidence)
  • gkwatra
    gkwatra Posts: 431 Member
    No known person in the world has the same first and last name combination as I have.

    Same here ... first name is German, my married last name is Indian.
  • fcp1234
    fcp1234 Posts: 1,098 Member
    I never heard of anybody else that has my name
  • Bjarney1974
    Bjarney1974 Posts: 2
    Sara is comon ;)

    My name her is my name in the rl and it is not comon. and my 1. and 2. name it is only me and than i put my dads name inther and it is stil only me.

    In Iceland thar are only 320.000 people so icelandic names cane never be comon hehehe
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    I've searched, but no one has my first, middle, and last name combo.


    It was the same story when I had my maiden name.


    <<<<<<<Special snowflake.
  • RideaYeti
    RideaYeti Posts: 211 Member
    According to HowManyofMe.com, my first name is statisically the most popular first name - James. Last name is the 2724th and there are 236 people in theUS with the and first and last name.
  • mamakira
    mamakira Posts: 366
    I am one of a kind worldwide :))))) But I do have a weird name.:tongue:

    My fitness pal name is what my boys called me when they were toddlers.
  • Dinamita_TNT
    Dinamita_TNT Posts: 333
    My real first name is super common... But I like it :) Ana

    My MFP name... Is the name that I always use for social net, and it's... mine and SO ME! :D
  • Woodman725
    Woodman725 Posts: 288 Member
    I know many Jeff's but I have never met or seen someone with the same spelling as me. My name is Jeffry. It's usually Jeffery or Jeffrey. My parents literally didn't know which one was right so the left off the second 'e'.
  • bonjour24
    bonjour24 Posts: 1,119 Member
    well, 5 people in the states have my full maiden name. but nobody has my married name.
  • fallbrawl
    fallbrawl Posts: 72
    My name is pretty common.
  • jessaesmith
    jessaesmith Posts: 2 Member
    Yeah... I'm Jessica Smith.... Jessica ANNE Smith.

    FML.

    I don't worry about people knowing who I am anymore!!
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    nVery common.
  • weightedfootsteps
    weightedfootsteps Posts: 4,349 Member
    my name on MFP...is not that common...LOL variations on weight...but footsteps seems to be all me. My name in real life...first and last...extremely common! I'm a Jenny...LOL
  • CookNLift
    CookNLift Posts: 3,660 Member
    it used to be common, nowadays not many people name their kids something like mine. very old fashioned
  • hungrypotato
    hungrypotato Posts: 1,642 Member
    There are 1,146,738 people in the U.S. with the first name Anthony.
    Statistically the 32nd most popular first name.
    99.59 percent of people with the first name Anthony are male.
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    Rebecca is quite common.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    My first name, both middle names are pretty common. My surname still common but not so much. I just know it's a pain to fit on a form.

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