Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Random population questions

Last night Brian asked how many people are there in the United States. He guessed 5 million and I said at least 10 million. Off to Google to find the Government website to let us know the answer. . .

Take a guess . . .


As of last June, there are 303,824,640 people in the US!

Then we linked to a website to let us know about how many people in the US have the same name as us.
I guessed that Brian's name was pretty popular and about 10,000 people share it...but I was feeling pretty unique about my name and Tam's. Now these numbers are based on past censuses and is only somewhat accurate.

Check out the link to try your name: How many of me?

Brian = More than 1 million people
Brian's last name = 950,000 + people
Brian's first AND last name combo = 3,511 estimated

Summer = 26,000+ people
Summer's Last name = 337 people (do we know them all?)
Summer's first AND last name combo = 1 . . . THERE IS ONLY ME!

Tamlin = 1532 people
Tamlin's first AND last name combo = 5 or fewer

1 comment:

Shelly said...

There's only 1 me too! However, there's 94,970 Shellys around..neat site