Saturday, November 18, 2006

How many people have your name?

This site is really fun: it tells you "how many people" have your name (first and last) in the USA. By "how many people," it doesn't count the number of actual people who have your name; how it works is it takes the popularity of your first name and last name and then figures out the probability that someone will have both your names, based on the US population (which recently hit 300,000,000).

It's fun, though. I threw in some fairly improbable (or just silly) name combinations just to see what it would come up with:

According to the statistics,

There are 12 people in the U.S. named Abdul Murphy.

There are 20 people in the U.S. named Herschel Lopez.

There are 15 people in the U.S. named Julio Chen.

There are 4 people in the U.S. named Tanisha Wong.

There is 1 person in the U.S. named Mohammed Goldstein.

There is 1 person in the U.S. named Monique Gupta.

There are 21 people in the U.S. named Jesus Singh.

There are 12 people in the U.S. named Marilyn Manson.

There are 78 people in the U.S. named Martin Barton.

There are 529 people in the U.S. named Kelly Kelly.

There are 2 people in the U.S. named Dick Head. (heheh I couldn't resist)

...and, look out world, because There are 503 people in the U.S. named George Bush!

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