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How common is your NAME

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  • 820Resa
    820Resa Posts: 40 Member
    Name I go by, Resa, is apparently VERY uncommon and most people look at me funny when I introduce myself.

    Last name is moderately common, but I'm ok with it because I can trace my dad's family back to signing the constitution and then a general in the Civil War. :)
  • baldzach
    baldzach Posts: 1,841 Member
    My name is only uncommon for a person of my age. Get down to 20 somethings and teenagers -- and younger -- and it's pretty d*** popular.
  • lucystacy71
    lucystacy71 Posts: 290 Member
    My first name, Lucy, isn't all that common anymore. It's not precisely uncommon, but it's just really old. My middle name is even older. I was named after my grandmothers.

    My last name is far more common as a first name than a last name.

    I hate my MFP name and one day I'll get around to changing it.
  • Luckysusan
    Luckysusan Posts: 947 Member
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  • Guinivere
    Guinivere Posts: 357 Member
    There's only 45 people in USA that share my name. They are all male! (I'm not!)

    Never seen another Guinivere on here tho....
  • Spaghetti_Bender
    Spaghetti_Bender Posts: 509 Member
    I have no idea.....
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I haven't seen anyone with my frickin awesome MFP name or my real life name
  • anro86
    anro86 Posts: 790 Member
    My real life name is far too common, I believe that there were like 4 girls in my grade with the same name... My screen name, not so much... random letters and numbers aren't super trendy screen names.
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  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    I'm John. Nuff said
  • ToFatT0B3S1ck
    ToFatT0B3S1ck Posts: 194 Member
    2 most common last name in the united states and my first name is Amy. I'm sure it's not very unique.
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    I wanted to use my usual username "peach sky", but it was already taken. So I used punkyrachel instead. I hate my 1st name because it is way too common. I had 11 Rachel's in my graduating class, very confusing.
  • maggie16sweetxoxo
    maggie16sweetxoxo Posts: 314 Member
    My first name is actually Magdalen, which is moderately rare because it's not Magdalene or Magdalena as usual.
  • jnite
    jnite Posts: 108 Member
    My first name isn't common at all, I think I've only heard of one or 2 others, it's Julene.
    My last name is not overly common, but you do hear it. I'll give you a clue, an actor has the same last name as I do.
  • OspreyVista
    OspreyVista Posts: 464 Member
    Not common at all. So uncommon that people really avoid trying to pronounce it mainly because they don't know how to.

    Same boat.
  • AestheticStar
    AestheticStar Posts: 447 Member
    Amanda is my first name, extremely common. And I even have a song written about my whole name.. So, yeah, haha. Probably common.
  • freak4iron
    freak4iron Posts: 995 Member
    almost as common as nipples
  • amychantel
    amychantel Posts: 52 Member
    Not terribly. My middle name, which I go by and always have, is Chantel. :-)
  • 1longroad
    1longroad Posts: 642 Member
    There are 69,694 people in the US with my first name, 8,943 people with my last name and only one other person with the same name. Wonder where she is??
  • LurveTheDoctor
    LurveTheDoctor Posts: 303
    0.004% of females in the US have my first name.

    #16 most common last name

    0.273% of last names in the US for my last name..

    0.001% of last names in the US maiden name.. last name.

    16 of me in the us.... and I'm the only one w/ my maiden name.

    13,145 of my husbands name..

    So, I guess my birth name is pretty uncommon.
  • MickeyCastello
    MickeyCastello Posts: 269
    My nickname is Mickey, or just Mick, because almost nobody ever pronounces my real name correctly - Michele - Italian version of Michael. It's pronounced like Me-kay-el. I'll bet you can guess how most people want to say it.
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    According to the how many of me web site -
    There are fewer than 1,584 people in the U.S. with the same first name.

    There are fewer than 118 people in the U.S. with the same last name.

    There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. with the same first and last name.



    I'm surprised that many people with my last name, it's absolutely unique and I have only 3 relatives with this last name in the USA. I wonder who those other 114 people are...
  • SwitzEngine
    SwitzEngine Posts: 3,418 Member
    hehe, my name is used for boys and girls. Sascha

    But I am a boy :-)
  • AcidWords21
    AcidWords21 Posts: 139 Member
    There are 701,692 people in the US with my first name & 10,016 with my last name so I'd say it's pretty common.
  • xombiebite
    xombiebite Posts: 276 Member
    user name - not common
    real name - common...spelling - not common
    last name - semi-common
    soon to be married name - not common.
  • sjanejack
    sjanejack Posts: 158
    my username isn't common at all
    my real name is common, the spelling of it though is a little less common
    my first name is Sara, its often been mis-spelled as Sarah, and there are more Sarah(s) than Sara(s)
    my last name is pretty common, but not so much among white people seriously its more common among black people
  • pennelope515
    pennelope515 Posts: 369
    First name: Common for people around my age group
    Last name: Super uncommon!
    Username: I don't know or care. haha
  • Miepke99
    Miepke99 Posts: 31 Member
    On these forums, I'm pretty sure neither my first name nor my last name are common.
    Where I live, though, my first name is pretty common.
    My first name's Mieke.
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    IRL, more common than I thought. I remember looking up my name on a wedding registry and being appalled at how many me's are out there; both first & last name. On MFP, unique because I'm using an actual name.
  • piratesaregrand
    piratesaregrand Posts: 356 Member
    Username I'd say pretty uncommon

    Real name is Sarah, I share my name with every other girl in the universe
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