October 30, 2006
According to How Many of Me, there are 0 people named Starlen Rosencrans in the country. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm pretty sure that's not entirely correct.
That said, the service lists 0 people named Starlen in the country. I once worked at a place where I had the ability to check names (only names - no numbers were ever displayed) against the social security database, and exactly 6 Starlens came up as having had SSNs since the inception of Social Security. Two of them were me; one was the guy I was named after. That leaves three other Starlens floating out their somewhere.
Back to How Many of Me, though, I find a little more luck with Star Rosencrans, rather than Starlen. No other Star Rosencranses, but there are apparently 4500 (how's that for a round number!) people in the US with the first name Star, and 630 people with the last name Rosencrans. That makes Rosencrans rarer than I would have expected, though there are 1110 Rosecranses out there, which is supposed to be my grandfather's birth surname.
How does your name fare? Alan Berliner invited 12 other Alan Berliners to join him for dinner, and made a movie about it. This would probably be much more difficult for my friend Matthew Smith, if he were interested in inviting all 9,943 of his fellow Matthew Smiths.
Oh, and of those 4,500 Stars? "More than 99.9 percent" are girls. Sigh.
Posted by starlen at October 30, 2006 7:33 PM
Comments
Hmm... There are 15 Douglas Matheson's in the US... but only 2 Doug Mathesons.
Crazy.
Posted by: Doug at October 31, 2006 6:29 AM
10,000 of me! That's a battalion!
Posted by: Matt at November 3, 2006 11:47 PM
