<p>This makes me uncomfortable as my girls show up quite a bit because of their sports. D1 has a unique spelling of her name so it’s all about about her! D2 is right there for everyone to see also. sigh…</p>
<p>I started playing around with HowManyofMe, just trying different names, and found out that John is the 2nd most popular name in the USA. But I can’t figure out what #1 is! Anyone know?</p>
<p>According to howmanyofme, I’m the only one with my (married) name and I believe it.</p>
<p>I google my kids fairly often, to see if anything inappropriate has been posted.</p>
<p>Have you ever wondered about people who are charged, but then acquitted, of a crime? When you google them, the criminal charges and newspaper articles regarding the allegations are front and center, then the acquittal article is buried…a local real estate developer sued google over this and now when you google his name, the aquittal article comes up first.</p>
<p>21 of me but over 70 of my wife. At least one of me has a much greater record of accomplishments than I do, the kind of things my teachers always said that I should be able to achieve - but I guess I didn’t work at it enough.</p>
<p>but what do I do with the fact that the famous person with my last name on howmanyofme is a well known very conservative?</p>
<p>PS I went to college with at least 10 people of my last name, none of whom were related to me. On the other hand, searching for my family’s real name in the old country (before it became adjusted for the US) produces no results.</p>
<p>Zero for me - five for my DD1. Is this a stage of empty nesting? I did it for the first time the other night when I realized my flu like symptoms were from missing my freshman at college.</p>
<p>Ah that is a fun site and there are 2200 of me. </p>
<p>But its also way way way inaccurate and I don’t believe for a minute they bothered to use valid data sources. Some family with unusual names, but say at least 50 people I know in the family, are listed as ‘1’ in the US. My D’s first name, which is unusual but not THAT unusual on other websites, comes up as extremely rare. </p>
<p>I think its completely bogus.</p>
<p>An interesting site. There be 23 of me, but only one of my wife. Son is a 4 hit, and d is listed as one or less.</p>
<p>I can vouch that she exists at least once.</p>
<p>Yep. Found all my publications… even those which sometimes do not always show up on PubMed! What a pleasant surprise!</p>
<p>Always google my name every week. Very rarely find anything about me. When I google the bear I sometimes get some interesting stuff. She has a completely unique name. My user name here gets some interesting hits.</p>
<p>I just googled my screen name…several missypies out there, one of whom is trying to lose weight.</p>
<p>My results are pretty boring … a few of my donations show up on charities donation lists, a few results from running races (20 years old!), a few things about youth coaching (coach contact lists), and a few things about my professional career (when I mentioned in an article in a professional magazinew with the circulation of about 1000 people) … not too interesting.</p>
<p>Ever google your relatives? It was from googling my brother in law that I found out why most of the people in the town he lives in were mad a him.</p>
<p>Not sure how accurate the “howmanyofme” website is. My husband, who has a fairly unique name, comes up as having only 1 other person with his name. However, we know for a fact that there are 9 people with his name, as they’ve all corresponded.</p>
<p>I once googled my father-in-law and found two things. One was a publication he never knew he had. Another was his name in a found-money website (database recording lost money left in banks etc.). Anyway he got $500 from that one!</p>
<p>I never Googled myself before now. (Since I’ve been married, I’ve had one of those “John Smith” names) I found that “I” was one of the (numerous) wives of a very famous writer. And there is an elementary school in Iowa named after “me.” Those two account for most of the entries. There are also assorted doctors, lawyers, artists, etc. And several obituaries–none of them mine.</p>
<p>boy I wish I hadnt of done that…put in myname.net and it appears that I am a transgendered dominatrix. No wonder my friends havent been returning my calls.</p>
<p>The handful of results both under my present name and my former one (I changed my name a few years ago) are all me. Unusual spelling, in both cases. My son, on the other hand, shares a name with a prolifically published professor at the University of Michigan, so there are hundreds of results – few, if any, for my son, since I don’t think his Facebook postings show up on google!</p>
<p>I googled my husband’s last name and the province of Sicily they came from about 100 years ago. Their distinctive last name is listed as a clan in la cosa nostra. I also found some newspaper articles (in Italian, of course) which I think chronicle some criminal activities and arrests. Yikes! Should I share this news with “the family” at Thanksgiving?!</p>
<p>Oh my goodness. I’ve googled myself plenty of times (I write books and have fun seeing a Finnish website extolling the book, at least that’s what I think it says) but have never used the “how many of me” and the Zabasearch. I’m not surprise to see that there is only one of me in the U.S., but I didn’t quite expect the Zaba search to IMMEDIATELY show an aerial view of my neighborhood, with a red pointer aimed at our chimney. It’s luck I have nothing to hide!</p>