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Jason English
The Same-Name Game
by Jason English - March 7, 2007 - 11:33 AM

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While you might be one of a kind, your name likely isn’t. Though I guess this depends on your name. I’m one of 179 Jason Englishes in the United States alone (including this one, this one and this one).

Do your own math at How Many Of Me.

For the link, kudos to my sister, my favorite of our country’s 180 Karen Englishes. And David alluded to the same-name game last week.

As for the photo, I had trouble deciding between this shot of all the Larry Davids and a Big Lebowski poster. I’ll keep The Dude in my bag of tricks.

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Comments (16)

  1. There are Zero Milica Moores in the United States.

    *blips out of existance*

    ;D

    posted by Milica on 3-7-2007 at 11:37 am

  2. Big, fat zilch on Bonilyns in the U.S. My daughter’s name. Although I do remember reading about one in Florida, so I wonder how accurate this is.

    posted by Stephanie on 3-7-2007 at 11:47 am

  3. Big, fat zilch on Bonilyns in the U.S. My daughter’s name. Although I do remember reading about one in Florida, so I wonder how accurate this is.

    Also 0 on several people who I know exist. Unless they are lying to me. Not about existing, but about their names.

    posted by Stephanie on 3-7-2007 at 11:54 am

  4. The counter is not very accurate. It said there are only 2 Sheldon Siegel in the country. I know of at least 4, including me, as stated in a previous thread. :-)

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 3-7-2007 at 12:08 pm

  5. Well, I know that there are lots of Milica’s in the US. It’s just a really rare name.

    This site goes by census statistics and calculates the probabilities that the combinations of two names existing.

    Oops… *blips back out of existance*

    posted by Milica on 3-7-2007 at 12:08 pm

  6. I think this web search engine is rathered flawed. According to it, not a single person in the USA even has my surname. Guess all of us no longer exist even though we’ve been around since the 1800’s.

    Since I don’t exist in the U.S. does that mean I no longer have to pay taxes???!!! :-D

    posted by Steve S on 3-7-2007 at 12:24 pm

  7. There are none of me on the website! I guess I was never born then…

    posted by Greer on 3-7-2007 at 1:05 pm

  8. Another big fat loser here! 0 people with my last name in the US. Then what IS my husband’s last name?!?!? You can’t make accusations without backing them up! I want answers HowManyOfMe.com!!!

    :o)

    posted by Corrine on 3-7-2007 at 2:01 pm

  9. I don’t exist either. My first name (legally spelled Rebecka with many thanks to my parents) combined with my last name statistically comes up with zero.

    And sometimes … I feel like I don’t exist … *heavy sigh*

    posted by Rebecka on 3-7-2007 at 2:41 pm

  10. None of my last name either. 300,000+ people have my first name though.

    posted by RYZ on 3-7-2007 at 2:47 pm

  11. As an everyday reader of the MF blog, I was thrilled to see this Curb your Enthusiasm DVD package. I designed it and created this fake 3D rendering for HBO Video.

    posted by Andrew Zimmerman on 3-7-2007 at 3:11 pm

  12. Well done, Andrew. I think I remember seeing this as a massive Times Square billboard a few years back. What’s the headline? “Deep down, you know you’re him”?

    posted by Jason on 3-7-2007 at 4:00 pm

  13. While 535,444 people have my first name and 510 have my last name, a whopping 1 person has my exact name.
    Cool.

    posted by Alice on 3-7-2007 at 5:32 pm

  14. Nope. I’m not there, either. My last name isn’t, at least. Although I do have a fairly rare lst name. The only people I know of with it are related to me. Sigh.

    posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 3-7-2007 at 6:40 pm

  15. There is a disclaimer about the accuracy…or

    “Q: How accurate is this program?

    A: More accurate than a Magic 8-ball. Less accurate than distributing and collecting 300 million surveys.”

    and it says 0 ellen lechels :( it is a lonely world. lol.

    posted by Ellen on 3-7-2007 at 8:02 pm

  16. 0 of me as well. It says that it doesn’t recognize my last name- which to be honest, my family is the only one that I know of in the US. There are only 41,996 other people with my first name (860th in the list of most common first names!), and none with my last name. If you go a little deeper into the site it does say that about 1 in 10 people will have a name that doesn’t appear on the list… So, it’s actually only accurate about 81% of the time (this per the website).

    posted by greenstrawberries on 3-7-2007 at 10:55 pm

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