How Many Mikes

A chum, who is not one of us, sent me a link to a site alleging to use U.S. Census bureau to calculate how many of a first/last name combination were in the country at the 2000 count. HowManyOfMe.com lets you type in your names and search.

Note: There's no provision for middle names.

At the high end is the predictable John Smith, with 50,192.

I think if you want to feel special, you can use a nickname or a custom spelling. However, to get real on this, I found:

1,365 people named Michael Ball (and only 98 named Mike Ball).

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Tags: Mike Ball, Census, Michael Ball, HowManyOfMe