{"id":712,"date":"2006-10-19T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2006-10-19T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T16:36:30","slug":"my_doppelgangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/19\/my_doppelgangers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Doppelgangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another thing that I&#8217;m way behind the curve on, that <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.howmanyofme.com\/\">Web site<\/a> that everybody was playing with a week or so ago that will tell you how many people in the U.S. have the same name as you:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\n<table style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px; background-color: #0066b3; color: white;\">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 width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding-top: 2px; background-color: white;\" width=\"120\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px black;\" alt=\"Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/extimg.howmanyofme.com\/extimages\/howmany-logo.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px; background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">There are:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">3<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: black;\">people with my name<br \/>\nin the U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0066b3; font-weight: bold; line-height: 180%; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\">How many have your name?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBesides the result shown above, the search also generates some stats about each of your names (your first and last, that is):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 992,896 people in the U.S. with the first name Jason.<\/li>\n<li>Statistically the 39th most popular first name.<\/li>\n<li>99.7 percent of people with the first name Jason are male.<\/li>\n<li>There are 870 people in the U.S. with the last name Bennion.<\/li>\n<li>Statistically the 30,847th most popular last name (tied with 1665 other last names).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All very interesting. One thing makes me doubt the veracity of this exercise, though: I&#8217;m pretty sure there are at least 870 Bennions just in the Salt Lake area alone, not to mention the rest of the country. You see, I happen to know that my direct ancestors were two Welsh brothers who converted to Mormonism in the 1840s and, like most of the early church members, they were both polygamists. If you&#8217;ve ever glanced at the geneological records of a family that has polygamy in its history, you&#8217;ve seen an illustration of exponential growth at work. Utah is full of Bennions who all descend from those two brothers, and I&#8217;d be very surprised if there aren&#8217;t other pockets of Bennionosity elsewhere, too.<\/p>\n<p>To the credit of whoever built the site, however, they don&#8217;t make any claims to complete <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.howmanyofme.com\/accuracy\/\">accuracy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[This site is m]ore accurate than a Magic 8-ball. Less accurate than distributing and collecting 300 million surveys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accurate or not, it&#8217;s a pretty fun site&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another thing that I&#8217;m way behind the curve on, that Web site that everybody was playing with a week or so ago that will tell you how many people in the U.S. have the same name as you: HowManyOfMe.com There are: 3 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? 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