How common is your first name? Your last name?

David · #41 Postby **David** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:11 pm

My last name was in the 4,700 area.

Miss Mary · #42 Postby **Miss Mary** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:17 pm

Wow, didn't think Mary would be #1 but it is! I knew it would be in the top 5 or 10, but #1?!!! Even after all this time....when I was in school, mainly high school, there were so many Mary's, it was crazy! About 20 girls turned around if you heard - MARY! There were Mary Ann's (my full name is Mary Anne, shhhh!), Mary Jane's, Mary Sue's, and on and on.

As some of you know my husband's name is Jim, another common boy name back then. So when we had children, I decided I didn't want common names for them. Not unusual names mind you, just not like Mary or Jim! We did fine with Nina, but for Laura's name, we honestly thought she'd encounter many Lauren's. She has but it seems Laura is a fairly common name too! She's always been one of two Laura's thru-out her school years. Guess that's better than one of 20 or more Mary's!!!!

Quick edit - Jim is #1 for boys. Wow, we're a number 1 couple!!!! :-)

blizzard · #43 Postby **blizzard** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:22 pm

David wrote:My last name was in the 4,700 area.

would that be in the 4760's David??

lol

Guest · #44 Postby **Guest** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:44 am

hmmm...ok

HARRY 0.251 52.991 70

Last name--------------->0.001 75.414 15208

Miss Mary · #45 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:22 am

petal*pusher wrote:Pretty interesting! I'm quite surprised, though, that what we think of as more "traditionally old-fashioned" names are very HIGH on this list! Do you suppose this means that a huge portion of our population are "seniors"??!!??

examples; Mary (1), Linda (3), Barbara (4), Margaret (9), Dorothy (10).....how many young "Dorothy's" do you know?, Betty (14), Helen (15), Ruth (19).....and so on

Names that SEEM popular now appear much lower!.........p

(oh yea.....I was Pamela (37) Meinke (20,685).....

Hey Petal - you calling me a senior? LOL J/K with ya.....I don't know many Dorothy's and that seems to be a name for my parent's generation. Just wait about 20 years, we'll see Katie, Nicole, Jessica, etc. up there.

2 Seam Fastball · #46 Postby **2 Seam Fastball** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:43 am

Mary was #1? Good. HHHAAAAIIIILLLL MMMMAAAARRRRYYY!!!!!

Miss Mary · #47 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:10 am

2 Seam Fastball wrote:Mary was #1? Good. HHHAAAAIIIILLLL MMMMAAAARRRRYYY!!!!!

Now Tom, I didn't see Hail Mary.....just Mary!!!! LOL Still surprised Mary was #1, after all this time. Very few kids being named Mary these days.....

petal*pusher · #48 Postby **petal*pusher** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:21 am

give us an "M'......give us an "A"......etc.!

Glad you knew I meant to offense to you Mary.....but that's exactly what I was referring to......not too many "youngsters" nowdays bearing the most popular names!.....p :wink:

isobar · #49 Postby **isobar** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:11 pm

Miss Mary wrote:(my full name is Mary Anne, shhhh!)

Thanks a lot Mary, now I have the Gilligan's Island song stuck in my head!! :lol:

therock1811 · #50 Postby **therock1811** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:15 pm

JEREMY 76th
MOSES 620th

Talk about uncommon last names LOL!

therock1811 · #51 Postby **therock1811** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:16 pm

I just searched on my stepdad's last name...it was 7969th on the list...Herald is less common than you think LOL!

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