Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating

[sovay]

Is anyone surprised?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

"More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Sonya are female."

I wonder who the outlier is. And what language he's named in.

(I am also sick with an actual cold, so I'm going back to bed.)

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me too, with the one-or-fewer. That would be fewer, I think (I'm over here!). And apparently there are only 641 Brenchleys in the US (to all of whom I am related, guaranteed; many of 'em, quite closely. My grandfather had a black-sheep elder brother, who skipped town and crossed the Atlantic and married an oil heiress, the way that black sheep do. There is a whole family of rich relatives over there, and we're not in touch at all... *sob*)

[sovay]

My grandfather had a black-sheep elder brother, who skipped town and crossed the Atlantic and married an oil heiress, the way that black sheep do. There is a whole family of rich relatives over there, and we're not in touch at all...

Great anecdotal value, though . . .

Where does your name come from?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

There's a village in Kent called Brenchley (I've been there, and it's lovely - timbered Tudor houses, all twisted with age - but kind of odd seeing my own name everywhere: Brenchley Church, Brenchley Post Office, like that...). It's definitely where the family comes from, but we are a bit came-over-with-the-Conqueror, so to some extent the place might be named after us, rather than the other way around. "Ley" means fields; I really don't know about the Brench.

[sovay]

Get well soon!

Thank you! I have spent most of today doing very little . . .

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Cool, the uniqueness of your name. There's 156 of me, apparently, although I get suddenly unique if I use the Irish form of my name. (Which I don't, normally, excepting my first name, sometimes.)

Sorry to hear about your cold, and I hope you're better soon.

Oh, and I hope you don't mind my asking you, but would you mind to email me a postal address at which you might be reached? IIRC your birthday's coming up, and I'd like to send you a card, if you don't mind. If you'd rather not, that's fine, also, of course. Thanks!

[sovay]

Sorry to hear about your cold, and I hope you're better soon.

Thanks. I see chicken soup in my future.

Oh, and I hope you don't mind my asking you, but would you mind to email me a postal address at which you might be reached? IIRC your birthday's coming up, and I'd like to send you a card, if you don't mind.

I would rather not, but I appreciate the thought very much.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I see chicken soup in my future.

I hope it helps, and that you're feeling better now or, barring that, in the near future.

I would rather not, but I appreciate the thought very much.

Most welcome, as always.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Feel better!

(And no, no-one is surprised.)

[sovay]

Feel better!

I'm working on it!

(And no, no-one is surprised.)

(Well, I'd have been very startled. I did meet someone once whose first and last names were Lithuanian/Scottish, which was awesome.)

[kraada.livejournal.com]

If there were fewer than 1 people with your name in the USA right now I would be surprised.

My bet on the guy named Sonya doesn't understand the name and thought it should be properly punctuated:

Son? Ya.

Then they just took out the punctuation . . .

[sovay]

If there were fewer than 1 people with your name in the USA right now I would be surprised.

I don't know; I feel about 75% right now . . .

Son? Ya.

Oy.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Not surprisingly, I'm it for my name. And fewer than 1,527 people in the U.S. have even my first name. I've met one and heard of another.

I am horribly sorry about the cold. Get well!

Nine

[sovay]

And fewer than 1,527 people in the U.S. have even my first name. I've met one and heard of another.

The real question is, how many of them were named for Greer Garson?

Supposedly there are 915 other Taaffes in this country. "Statistically the 29402nd most popular last name."

[kraada.livejournal.com]

There are apparently only 397 Poetzsches. And I know about two dozen of them . . .

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hey, the same result for me!

Hope you feel better soon...

[sovay]

Hope you feel better soon...

Thanks!

Were you named for anyone in your family?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No--my parents just liked the name. How about you?

[sovay]

How about you?

My great-grandmother Sofy: my mother's mother's mother.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

great female lineage!

On my father's side, males had alternated between Eugene and Biagio, but when my father was born and was due to be called Biagio, my grandmother said that tradition was going to have to be broken, so my father became Eugene Jr. (My brother also is a Eugene, but we all call him Gino.)

I rather like Blaise as a name, which, I am told, is the English version of Biagio.