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.