I’ve just come across the Your Not Me website which is based on the 2000 UK Census data and allows you to see how popular your name is in the United Kingdom. According to the site, there are 3 other people in the UK with the same name as myself: my eldest sister is the only one of her name in the UK, my youngest sister would be likewise (if she was actually old enough to be included in the census at that point – it only includes over 18s).
There are 12,547 “John Smith”s in the UK – and the most popular forenames are: John (1,264,441), David (1,046,833), Margaret (704,453), Michael (669,377) and James (587,292) – and the most popular surnames are Smith (552,342), Jones (421,842), Williams (290,742), Brown (265,543), Taylor (256,820) – and more details are available on the top ten page: it’s quite fun finding out how many people share your name…
(photograph taken by a certain person – not me – for The Mirror Project – but it was just about the only thing I could think of to represent ‘Your Not Me’).
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That person looks familiar. 🙂
Well, your not me are you? 😉
Strange my First name is #5 of the female names and my last name is #5 on the last names. So I am a 5/5.
its just great
won’t it be spooky