So You Think You're Special
I don't really buy these statistics...but according to this website:
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posted by Michael
©The Main Point by Michael Main
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6 Comments:
Hmm....there are only 122 people with my first & last name in the United States
There is 1 "jim" (me), 2 "jimmy" (which is really me and my uncle for whom I was named), and 45 "james" filers (james not being what my father put on my birth certificate). I'm wondering if you tried any variations of "michael"?...
There is only ONE of MMMe.
No kidding.
Doesn't make me special though. Makes me kinda lonely.
MMMe -
Wow... your comment threw me for a loop! I honestly didn't think about the popularity of my name, being special, and especially feeling lonely. But I can see your point.
On the other hand, it makes you just like billions of other things in this world. Snowflakes, grains of sand, fingerprints, y'know... all those unique things.
Your name is nothing more than your legal identity. Your name, although unique (according to the Internet), means very little in the eyes of humanity... much less in the eyes of God. It does not define you, it is not who you were, who you are, and who you are to become. Unless, of course, your name is Wayne. If that's the case, give up now... you're doomed ;-)
Your name lets people know how you should be addressed -- and if it is as unique as your screen name (or if it's the SAME as your screen name), then I'm sure that it is QUITE the ice breaker.
[warning... warning... commenter's embellishement approacheth!]
What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;
so MMMe would, were she not MMMe call'd, retain that dear perfection which she owes without that title. MMMe, doff thy name, and for that name which is no part of thee, take all of Christ and accept thyself!
grace & peace,
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Jim - Yes, I ran a couple of different versions of my name "Mike" actually has "fewer" oddly enough.
I'm not sure how this data is put together but if it makes anyone feel better, I did a brief radio piece on this little gizmo and ran the names of some of our "morning crew" through it...Our sports guy,who admittedly has an usual last name came up with the response "1 or fewer" people with that name.
One or fewer?
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, unless it was calling the guy a real zero :)
M
When I previously ran my name, I ran my legal first name (Cynthia) and got the 122 result. When I ran my nickname that I use on a daily basis (Cindy), there were only 50 with my name. Interesting
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