hey!

[freckles_and_doubt]

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 3 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Miffed. I thought I was a unique and beautiful snowflake. Am also weirded to discover that my sister, whose first name I would have thought is a lot more common than mine, has absolutely no counterparts in the US, in any possible way I can spell her first name.

Driving over the railway bridge this morning, I glanced down at the station to see a tall, thin man all in white advance to the edge of the platform to check for approaching trains. For an instant his proximity to the orange line on the edge of the platform made him look like a cricket fielder out at the boundary, and the whole station faded momentarily into a green field with spectators relaxed under the trees and the soft, lazy "pock" of bat on ball - I actually saw it for a moment. My early-morning grasp on reality is clearly somewhat tenuous. Also, rather too much influenced by Ian Hay, Dorothy Sayers, P.G. Wodehouse, and a Zimbabwean co-ed school childhood.

Bunny Threat Level: rising, slowly, in dreamy fits and starts.

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

There are apparently 380 Americans with my name.
This site seems to be inspired by http://www.yournotme.com/ , a similar site working off UK electoral roll data.
There are 135 of me in the Uk, and exactly 1 one you. Your evil twin. Or perhaps *you* are the evil twin?

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

How many have your name? (http://howmanyofme.com)

That is the married name, much more exciting than my maiden.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

13 in the US and 5 in the UK

[kadekraan.livejournal.com]

0 (US) and 1 (UK)... I'm guessing the UK one is me as I'm on the electoral roll ;-)

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

There are 140 with mine ...
I'm only surprised it isn't higher, actually.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

that was in the US,
and 21 in the UK.
Bet I'm the only wolverine nun, though...

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

2 in the US. But 47 in the UK. So much for uniquitude - though if you could include middle names in the check, it would probably be 0 and 1.

[librsa]

How strange, not a single person bears my surname in the USA (who bothered to be on the census, anyway). 26 people in the UK with my surname (I know at least 5 of them), but as I am not there currently no-one in blighty is me.

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

Are you sure?

[rumint.livejournal.com]

Wow, 4 in the US, 10(!) in the UK. I thought my surname was rarer than that.
Kadekraan assures me I'm still special :)

[(Anonymous)]

"You are unique. You are one with the angry Squirrel. Shout 'I am the unique. I am unified with the badger overlord.' People will run away. That's because they're jealous. JEALOUS."

Thus saith Yournotme. I feel special. No Merkins, either, though using the spelling Robyn brings up four. But still no Brits - unsurprising, since it's really not used as a girl's name over here.

scroob

Haha!

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

I am the only me in the US and the UK! There was another me on the Dutch Olympic team, according to a Googling. It wasn't me, though, as cat-snorgling isn't an Olympic sport (yet...). Neither is toe-munching.