Poll: How common is your name?

[Hauntghost20]

Evan rare i think i know a guy who whas my best freind called Kazukiu Pickaskill

 

[smithy_2045]

Common enough that it isn't ridiculous, but not common enough that I constantly hear people calling out my name.

Also, Americans can't pronounce it right.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Tom. Possibly the most common name ever and even voldermort complains about it in the sixth(?) book.

 

[evilengine]

Jack, which being in the UK has been the most common name for males for the past 8 or so years. Saying that I was named way before it was cool, so I guess it makes me a hipster.

 

[mrhappy1489]

My name is Caden, and the first time I saw something even similar was in Mass Effect when they has a character named Kaiden.

 

[SckizoBoy]

My English name is quite rare, both names being derived from Old English, though one of the names (the one I normally go by) is Irish/Gaelic. Anglicised, my surname is German(-sounding). *shrug*

My Chinese name is... fairly common (family name), though my generational name is uncommon. I'm not that sure about my personal name...

And my name in Japanese is just weird...

 

[strength of 7 men]

Niamh: Fairly common in Ireland, unpronouceable everywhere else.

 

[oktalist]

So, there are more people with very common names than there are with rare names. Another Earth-shattering result from the Maximegalon Institute for Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

There are three other people on the planet with my name.

 

[claymoreguy18]

My first name you can find anywhere but my last name is a little more elusive.

 

[Brandon237]

Brandon is quite a common name...

I am not special anymore

Lol jk, I am crazy as all hell.

 

[Polyg0n]

Looking at the stats my name Hannu is fairly common among older people as an average of 1250 people a year were given this name between 1940-1959, but the popularity quickly fell and during the last decade only 30 a year got the name Hannu. So I guess that for now it is still a fairly common name, but will become rarish by the time I retire.

 

[Royta]

My name is Hasker, which is rare enough for only one other person in my country to actually have that name. That's 2/16 000 000. The full version is Hartger (think Dick-Richard), which is used a tad bit more, but no more then 10 people.

I usually just ask people to call me Roy, because the name is nearly impossible to pronounce in certain languages including..ironically..my own.

 

[Sovvolf]

My name is Steven so I'm guessing fairly common.

 

[Kukakkau]

Well depends where you are - in Scotland Scott is very common but overseas in like the US it's pretty rare I found.

 

[s0p0g]

fairly common in its "home country" (Ireland), but very very very very rare in these parts (Germany)

 

[Robert Ewing]

I wouldn't say my first name is THAT rare. Robert is a good traditional Scottish name. And so is Ewing, that's rare in the sense of how it is written, but not in the sense that it's had many, many turns of evolution. Ewing can be traced back as, Owen, Ewin, Eugene, Oewynn. Loads. Not sure what Ewing means, I know in some places it's known as a forest, but not in Scotland.

 

[SilentCom]

My first name is rather common in the U.S. As a matter of fact, the second poster here has the same first name as me...

My last name isn't as common, but it's not unheard of.

 

[The Heavy Metal Nerd]

Let me put it to you THIS way: There are less than 75 people who attend my church. 4 of them have the same first name as me. And at least two of them are related. Confusion? Oh, yes.

 

[konor77]

My first names sorta common but I spell it differently to most. My last name is common where i come from. However I do have some weird ass middle names. My middle names are Faolan Noel and Leopold.