02 November 2006

I'm more unique than I thought

I saw a recent posting of my sister's in her blog, (http://notesfrombedlam.blogspot.com/) about how unique she is, based on how many people share her name.
She had found a website that can tell you.
I knew that I shared my first name ('Jared') with enough of people (106,849 - according to "How Many of Me - Census Search"), and even more when you take into account all the different spellings. (It's just like me to not be able to actually say how many this would be, just to say that it's so. It's what I do...) And everyone knows that the last name 'Miller' is plenty common. (With 1,271,867 people, which makes it the 7th most common last name.) But it seems that the idea of pairing 'Jared' with 'Miller' didn't occur to as many Mr. and/or Mrs. Millers as I would have thought. There are only 452 of us "Jared Miller"s - but we're tenacious! I have no evidence to back up that statement, besides my own conviction of my and my fellow-namists' positive qualities. And 'tenacity' seems a more positive attribute than 'stubborness'. And I think it shows a great deal of tenacity to continue to assert the non-blogness of this page, despite all the nay-sayers that say "Nay. It is a blog!"



HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are:
452
people with my name
in the U.S.A.
How many have your name?