{"id":1622,"date":"2006-11-27T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/how-many-people-in-america-hav-1.html"},"modified":"2006-11-27T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T06:18:00","slug":"how-many-people-in-america-hav-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/how-many-people-in-america-hav-1.html","title":{"rendered":"How many people in America have your name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a interesting time waster but it&#8217;s fun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are 299,968,595 people in the United States of America. If everyone in the U.S. lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost 7 times. That&#8217;s a lot of people.<br \/>\nThe U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 88,799 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">\n<table style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"350\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>HowManyOfMe.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;text-align: center;font-size: 14px;background-color: white\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;padding-top: 2px;background-color: white\" width=\"120\"><a href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/extimg.howmanyofme.com\/extimages\/howmany-logo.png\" alt=\"Logo\" style=\"border: 1px none black\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;font-size:16px;color:white\"><span style=\"color:black\">There are:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;color:red\">5<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:black\">people with my name<br \/>\nin the U.S.A.<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\">How many have your name?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was surprised that my name isn&#8217;t more common.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/US+Census\" rel=\"tag\">US Census<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/resources\" rel=\"tag\">resources<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/name\" rel=\"tag\">name<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a interesting time waster but it&#8217;s fun: There are 299,968,595 people in the United States of America. 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