Saturday, February 16, 2008

What's in a Name?

Shannon and I were on the same wavelength today. I surfed across this site and wrote it down to do a blog on this week after people had a chance to read my randomness from yesterday. She beat me to it. Oh, well. Enjoy!

HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
5
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

I love my name. People often will tell me what a nice "ring" my first and last names have. I tell them I lucked into it. My maiden name was hard to spell and hard to pronounce. I liked it, but I was grateful to marry into a name that people know how to say correctly and that doesn't sound like a female undergarment when said over a loudspeaker in junior high. But I digress.

There are 28,828 people in the U.S. with the first name of Paige. I am going to assume that 23,000 of them are under the age of ten. There weren't many girls with my name growing up.

There are 54,621 with my last name. They are all Brian's cousins. Ha! Just kidding. Only 50,000 of them are.

There are 5,553 people with my maiden name. That's not many. My grandma has hundreds and hundreds of years of genealogy of that last name. You'd think there would be more descendents that that.

I was the only person in the U.S. with my first name and maiden name. I always knew I was special. :) What about you? How many name doppelgamers do you have?

6 comments:

Shannon b said...

I always knew you were a copier. ;) j/k

I do love the name Paige. In fact, Anna was almost Paige!

And I like the new sub-title on your blog (I'm assuming it's new because I just noticed it).

Jodi said...

You are special, my friend! Love your name and love you :)

Jill said...

That was kind of fun. Thanks for sharing!

Candy said...

Paige was a mane I have loved for many years. I finally was able to use it for daughter number four. David finally came around to my way of thinking:) I'll have to check out my name. Thanks for sharing - I am lucky to know such a "sweet" Paige.

Michelle said...

Paige, I clicked on this and there are 126 people with my same name in the U.S. That's crazy!
Michelle

Bonnie said...

OK, There are 3404 of me around. And I have the #1 most popular last name. That is crazy!!!