{"id":870,"date":"2006-10-08T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=870"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T21:11:18","slug":"on-unique-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"On Unique Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a couple of friends:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"350\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(0, 102, 179); color: white;\">HowManyOfMe.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120\" style=\"text-align: center; padding-top: 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\/extimages\/howmany-logo.png\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"border: 1px black\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px;\">There is:<br \/><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">1<\/span><br \/>person with my name<br \/>in the U.S.A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0066B3; font-weight:  bold; line-height: 180%; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howmanyofme.com\">How many have your name?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>The thing I found interesting was the breakdown of the statistics.  Let&#8217;s quote its bit on &#8220;Allyn&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 1,500 people in the U.S. with the first name Allyn<\/li>\n<li>4019th most popular first name. (tied with 1145 other first names)<\/li>\n<li>100 percent of people with the first name Allyn are female.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously, I&#8217;m going to quibble with the third assertion.  Though it <i>would<\/i> explain why I get so much mail for &#8220;Ms. Allyn Gibson&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually not sure how accurate the engine for this &#8220;search&#8221; is.  It&#8217;s probably just doing some sort of statistical analysis.  I know of a few other Allyn Gibsons&#8211;there was a retired baker in Oberlin, Ohio.  There was a gay and lesbian studies professor in Florida.  There was a World War II veteran who fought at Iwo Jima.  Perhaps all three of them have passed away by now.<\/p>\n<p>Which would make me unique.  Like the survey says. :banana:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a couple of friends: HowManyOfMe.com There is:1person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? The thing I found interesting was the breakdown of the statistics. Let&#8217;s quote its bit on &#8220;Allyn&#8221;: There are 1,500 people in the U.S. with the first name Allyn 4019th most popular first name. (tied with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=870\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Unique Names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[4107,349,396],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-memes","tag-name","tag-silly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}