How many of you?

okay ready for this? 148 of me!

There are 159,474 people in the U.S. with the first name Courtney.
Statistically the 378th most popular first name.
81.9 percent of people with the first name Courtney are female.

There are 282,497 people in the U.S. with the last name __
Statistically the 85th most popular last name.
there are 7 Famous people with the last name _____

Let's see there are 159,474 people that share the same first name as me..not shocked Courtney is an extremley popular name..I know five other Courtneys.
There are 124,542 that have my last name

But there are only 65 that share my full name..crazy!!! I was expecting more.

There were 84 of me. :-)

There's 8 of me.

There are 142,767 people in the U.S. with the first name Melinda.
There are 182,256 people in the U.S. with the last name *****
There are 86 people in the U.S. named Melinda *****

There are 48,602 people in the U.S. with my maiden name

There are 23 people in the U.S. named Melinda (maiden surname).

My sisters name came up "0"
DD-1 came up with 2
DD-2 came up with "0"

so, how can it come up with "0" when there really are..?! LOL... I guess my sister and DD-2 dont exist!! Oh My!

47,084 with my first name (lucas)
zero with my last name

The site has a link: Accuracy Information (handy to look for something like that when the advice matters. Here is what the Accuracy Information has to say:

Accuracy:

Q: How accurate is this program?

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

Q: No, really. How accurate?

A: Well, it's hard to say. In order to determine how accurate this program is, we would need a program that was completely accurate for comparison purposes. If we had a program that was completely accurate, we'd use that program instead of this one. At that point, discovering how accurate this program is would no longer be worth the effort. Therefore, we can fairly confidently say that it is impossible to determine how accurate this program is. (Confused? We're just warming up.)

In our completely non-expert opinion, we say that the program gives a decent ballpark estimate, but it shouldn't be used for anything more than that.

Q: Why isn't it more accurate?

A: There are a number of possible sources of inaccuracy:

First and foremost, the program is based upon a convenient fiction. Without getting too technical, the program makes the assumption that a person's first and last names are independent of one another. What this means is it assumes that the probability of a person having a particular first name is the same no matter what last name they have. It isn't.

So, for example: The program assumes that the chance that your first name is "Juan" is the same, regardless of whether your last name is "Arteaga" or "Epstein". Episodes of Welcome Back Kotter aside, we would hazard a guess that there are not that many people in the U.S. actually named "Juan Epstein". Depending upon what your family name is, it makes certain first names more likely, and certain others less likely. The program cannot compensate for that.

Second, the data is old. The data for this program comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 census. That makes the data about 18 years old or so. This is the most recent name data available from the Census Bureau (the 2000 census did not include name data), but it's still old, and it's accuracy may be slightly questionable.

Third, the data appears biased towards more formal versions of names. The data comes from forms mailed to the Census Bureau. It appears most people put their full, formal version of their name on the forms rather than a nickname. So, for example people who normally call themselves "Bill" would likely tend to put the name "William" on an official Census form. In fact, the data shows the name "William" outnumbering the name "Bill" 20 to 1. So, it appears that nicknames are under-represented in the statistics, and full formal names are over-represented in the statistics.

Fourth, not every name is on the list. A certain number of instances of a name were required to even make the list. About 10% of all responses were not included on the list because they appeared too few times. So, uncommon names are not represented on the list.

Fifth, we failed to make the required blood sacrifices to the gods of programming and statistics. Surely they will plague our endeavor with errors and inaccuracies.

Q: Can I use data from this site in my report / project / masters thesis?

Sure. However, we take no responsibility for any merciless mocking from your teachers and/or peers for using questionable data.

Its a fun thread...its in the social column. Accurate or not, I enjoy reading everyones response.

I'm enjoying the thread, too. I just went on a hunt to find out about it after a couple people queried finding 0 people with their name (which clearly can't be right). I found their explanation amusing...

hah well maybe cause im not from the usa

:-)
Yeah. But a little puzzling if you are from the USA and they tell you that nobody in the USA has either your first name or your last name or both.

I think it is pretty cool, actually. And it sounds like this is based on better data than the majority of sites like that...

First: 83,539
Married Last: 106,322
Maiden Last: 21,264
Married: 29
Maiden: 6

This is really cool!

No one with my first and last name. There are 1,580 people with my last name and 177,710 people with my first name.

there are lots of people lol

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. There are 10,632 people in the U.S. with the first name Chloe.
. Statistically the 1798th most popular first name.
. More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Chloe are female.

, There are 2,123,424 people in the U.S. with the last name Williams.
. Statistically the 3rd most popular last name.

There are 74 people in the U.S. named Chloe Williams.
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There are 89 people with the same first and last name as me.

771,662 with the same first name.

33,416 with the same last name.

Weirdly given that there are only 89 of us with the exact same name I wound up working at the same company as a girl with my exact same name. It really messed up e-mail.

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There are 90 people with the same name as me

644,049 with my first name
42,532 with my last name

Nobody else has my name....how cool is that???

There are 17 people in the U.S. with my lst & last name.

There were 69 of me.

How cool is that!

Thanks for sharing!

KD