Poll: How common is your name?

[t3h br0th3r]

Vincent. not unheard of but not all that common in the usa. maybe more so in europe but im not sure.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

My name is Thunder so i dont think anyone else has it

 

[GeneralFungi]

My first name is pretty common, but since I have close family with the same name, (I was named after my father and his father) my nickname is what I'm known as everywhere but my birth certificate. And less then 1,500 people in the U.S. share my name. I'm happy with that.

 

[FamoFunk]

Jade.

Fairly common, I went to school with a two other Jade's in my year alone. So not overly popular, but I know it is a common name.

My Daughter on the other hand, I think she's one of very, very few to have her name.

 

[SeriousIssues]

Brett. A handful (Very, very small hands) of famous people are named Brett, most of which American Sports Stars.

Fitting, because Favre is where they got the name.

 

[ShotgunZombie]

My name is Nathan and I've only met a handful of other Nathans in my life (two or three I believe) the irony is that fiction loves that name. I mean just off the top of my head (and videogames) we have Nathan Hale(Resistance), Nathan Drake(Uncharted), Nathan Gould(Crysis 2), Nathan "Rad" Spencer(Bionic Commando)...

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I think its safe to say that my name Jaymeson, is the only ones around. Unless you spell it differntly. Yet those keep poping up in games like Fallout 3, Gears 2, and stuff. I got so much shit for the Gathering storm mission on co-op gears.

 

[BlazeRaider]

My name is Herry, not Harry, other then my dad (I'm Herry Jr.) I don't think anyone else has my name. Personally I think my grandpa meant Harry but misspelled it (filipinos in the 1950s, even today I still see people spelling cupcake as cupp keyk).

 

[PrototypeC]

Nelson

I know maybe... 3 or 4 Nelsons around my age?

I believe that my name is somewhat rare, it's Mitchell

That's pretty common too.

Garrett Thomas, two fairly common names however the problem is Garrett is usually a last name and Thomas is usually a first name.

Not where I live. I know at least 5 Garretts, and I know I've heard of a lot more that are friends of friends. As for Thomas as the last name, that's right up there with Smith and Thompson here.

Miranda

That is super weird. Since when is Miranda an uncommon name in Canada? I thought it was one of the most common names ever...

Does Canada just have more weird or European names than the States or something? That's four people whose names are really common where I live (but maybe nowhere else??). I saw a lot more pretty common names being stated as rare in the posts here. Maybe it's just that everyone wants to believe they're unique?

 

[Kenko]

"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.

Hooray for White-Trashified names.

OT: Max, fairly common, don't see it often here but it's not uncommon or rare.

 

[PrototypeC]

OK, so, I believed as a child that my first name was totally unique and original. However...my last name, Thompson, is one of the most common last names of all time.

Now that I've done some research, I discovered that my name isn't totally unique. It's used for a few companies, a couple of medications, and is an uncommon girl's name in... Saudi Arabia, I think? There are a few other males with my name, all in English-speaking countries, and one of them is my aunt's other nephew, named after me.

 

[Maclennan]

My name was very common for a few years around when i was born but that changed since anyone who was a kid when star wars came out either became to mature to name their child after a fictional character or was doomed to never have children.

 

[Jyggalag]

"There are 420,882 people in the U.S. with the first name Benjamin.
Statistically the 138th most popular first name."

So I guess it's fairly popular. I've met several with my name growing up.

 

[Fooz]

first name pretty common, 16th most popular name in the US apparently

second name is pretty rare

 

[Norendithas]

My first name, Nathan, is extremely common. I go by my middle name though, Austin, which is also pretty common. My last name, Hacker, is not nearly as common though. Almost to the point of rare.

But I can say I am one of 14 Nathan Hackers in the US, and my dad is one of them.

 

[F'Angus]

Tom, there are damn loads of us. Started changing it back to Thomas because that's rarer.

 

[Instinct Blues]

My name is really common and by that I mean its ubiquitous throughout the US. Both my first and last name too it sounds as made up on the spot as John Smith. I can only imagine what my friends go through when they tell their parents they're going to hang out with a friend from school and then the parents say "Oh yeah what's his name?". Then they proceed to think bullshit when the kid answers.