Update: As Greg points out the way this thing works is pretty dang silly. For me it gives me 108 with my name (10 if I use Dave, and 98 if I use David). Anecdotally this seems off. Why? Well I grew up in a town of just over 6000 and there were two (2!) people with my name. One of them was even my age and had the same middle initial. In fact that’s how my name got changed to Dave from David. The teachers needed some way to distinguish us and so I got Dave and he got David. So 2/6000 times 300 million = 100000. Mmm…argument by anecdote.
I can do better than that, Jon:
“There are 0 people in the U.S. with the last name Kuperberg.”
By the way, Dave, you can check this link for a redundant but pretty good list of David Bacons who live in Washington State. (Or you can check separately for Dave Bacon.)
Oh I understand this site a lot better now, using the example of “George Bush”. The site stupidly assumes that first and last names are uncorrelated. (It also has misses the existence of rare last names like mine.) If you put in your own name, it will usually be an underestimate. It cannot possibly be an overestimate in the average case.
Actually the site’s FAQ admits all of it, including that 10% of the names are missing “for privacy reasons”. In light of sites like Zabasearch, this is lame. They also say that it’s impossible to determine the program’s accuracy. Also lame, and likely false.
I tried it, and it said:
“There is 1 person in the U.S. named Jonathan Kleid.”
I know for a fact that there are at least two others with my exact name.
weren’t there 3 in Yreka alone?
Zero Preskills, too, which makes me feel pretty lonely. But on the bright side, there are 4,923,984 Johns.
15 of me. I know I have seen reference to about 10 others online. In fact, I was in e-mail communication with one for a while. Fortunately, he changed his last name…
Dave, you might be interested in the fact that there is a candidate for the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission with your name:
http://www.davidbacon2006.org/
O people with the name “Van Moppes” (which leaves me wondering if I exist)
1,405,353 people in the U.S. with the first name Elizabeth and it is, apparently and statistically, the 19th most popular first name.
Then it says, that more than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Elizabeth are female (which leaves me wondering about the poor Boy Named Elizabeth and his relationship with his father)