Poll: How common is your name?

[Mavinchious Maximus]

So their is only one other person I know with my name and that name is Maverick. I have no idea why my parents named me Maverick but I think it fits me. With the rest of my siblings they just threw random names from the bible on them.

So escapist how common is your name?

 

[bulbasaur765]

Josh is a very common name in the US. I may have changed within a couple of years.

 

[Wuggy]

My name is Ari-Matti. It's Finnish, but even for Finnish standards it's pretty rare. I haven't met, or heard of, a single person with my name in my entire life.

 

[LadyRhian]

On the website "How many of me", you can check how many people in the US have your name. My first name is fairly common, but I am the only person in the US with my first and last name together. I am the one, true (insert name here).

 

[LobsterFeng]

Eric. Pretty common around the world. I live in the U.S. where it's sort of common, but not really.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

"Tylar"? I'm pretty sure that's very rare.

I mean, there's plenty of "Tyler"s in this world, but I've never encountered another "Tylar" before.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Both my first and last name are extremely common, but the first is Jennifer and I know that most classes in high school I knew I wasn't going to be the only one. I have idea why my parents named me that, but whatever.

Also, I kidded myself and googled my name and I gave up since I couldn't find myself after 20TH page.

 

[Epilepsy]

Friggin' ALEX, i know at least 10 Alex's personally, i share it with more than a handful of video game characters and most people here will know at least one themselves. Then most people wonder why i go under a nickname.

 

[Pharsalus]

Dig on this thread. My name is Murphy. A fairly common family name of Irish lineage but it's my first name. It's not totally unique, and it's shared by the fictional Murphy Brown, for which I was mocked through adolescence, but still, I like not being Joe, Mike, Seth or what have you.

 

[Shockolate]

I would say rare, since no one ever gets it right.

It's supposed to be uncommon to spell Colin with two L's, but everyone does it. When did it become the norm!?

Though supposedly they're around the top 100 names for boys in the USA (a few years ago mind you) so I'm not sure.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

So many people I know are called Nicholas, things get rather confusing.

 

[rutger5000]

My name is Rutger, inside the Netherlands my name is quite common outside not so much. So I adopted an allias Woody. I dunno if that name is common or not, but at least it's easy.

 

[onewheeled]

Eric. Pretty common around the world. I live in the U.S. where it's sort of common, but not really.

My name is Eric too, and I know three other Erics off the top of my head. I'd say it's a pretty common name.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

First name is really common, but my last name, Cuatt, let's just say my family is the only one in California with that name.

 

[Custard_Angel]

Pretty damn common.

I'll just leave it at that.

Think of a list of common names. Mine is there.

 

[Cogwheel]

On the website "How many of me", you can check how many people in the US have your name. My first name is fairly common, but I am the only person in the US with my first and last name together. I am the one, true (insert name here).

Thank you for that site.

Turns out that in the US (of course, my name is, as far as I know, an English one), 4,0529 people have my first name. 116 have my last name. I am the only one with both. That said, a variation on my first name is a reasonably common last name.

I'd mention my name, but you know, online and all.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Eric. Pretty common around the world. I live in the U.S. where it's sort of common, but not really.

My name is Eric too, and I know three other Erics off the top of my head. I'd say it's a pretty common name.

Yeah I guess it's about a medium common name, if that makes any sense.

 

[Laser Priest]

Extremely common, at least in my area.

It's rather annoying, actually.

 

[DJDarque]

Both my first and last name are frustratingly common.

 

[Mr Thin]

I'd say it's rare, although a kid in my primary school had a variant of the name (or mine was a variant of his, whatever), and there was a guy at my mom's university who had my first name as his last name.