How many of you are out there?

[Matthew Gates]

It's amazing how many of us share the same name. There are billions of people in the world. There just aren't enough names for everyone, therefore, we must share some of the same names over and over again. For example, many Johns in the world, many Matthews, many Dennis', and many other names. Well, would you believe that not only would you be sharing the same first name with thousands of other people in the world, but your last name too?

I searched ICQ and 11 other Matthew Gates' came up. Now, this is just for ICQ, think of the Matthew Gates' that don't have ICQ or the ones that don't have a computer! That's a lot! I can't believe it! I thought I was the only Matthew Gates in the world! I've never met another Matthew Gates, but I have had someone ask me if I was a Matthew Gates from NY. But it's weird. Perhaps an act of God, if HE or IT exists, to make sure no two Matthew Gates' exist in the same area. Notice how we're all spread apart, all around the world. So maybe we never encounter someone else with our exact same name.

Search ICQ and a bunch of other areas, for your first and last name, tell me how many people came up sharing the same first and last name with you! And have you ever met a person with the same exact name as you? It's amazing how it is. Just weird how most people with the same first and last name are just about never in the same area of the world, or perhaps they are, just don't know it, and sometimes, never even find out that other person with the same exact first and last name, may be, just around the corner from you?

[CyberSurfer]

5 in ICQ...

[aknisely]

I wonder how many people there are named Arien....

[JungleMan]

None for me but my last name is uncommon...

[barrk]

Do you really think that VB-World can handle more than one of me????

Hi Matthew....long time no chat. Are you fine?

[Matthew Gates]

I am well Katie, thanks for asking .

More than one of you Katie, there can only be one true queen of Chit Chat! And you..are it .

And how are you?

[chrisjk]

my surname is very unsual, but I did a net search one and I found a few.

One of me even wrote a book!! Called "Kava Medicine Hunting in Paradise"!

http://www.kavaking.com/books.html

[barrk]

Goodnight all of you......and your alter egos too!

[chrisjk]

bye!!

[crptcblade]

The only John Long I ever heard of(besides me) was a college basketball player in the 70's. I don't have ICQ or anything, so I can't see how many are out there, but I imagine there would be more than a few.

[chrisjk]

Well there's Long John Silver

[chrisjk]

apparently there are 128 John Longs who are members of Yahoo

[crptcblade]

My people! I hath found you at last!

[Matthew Gates]

And there are so many John Long's on ICQ, ICQ can't seem to list them all, so..50+ John Long's have ICQ.

[scoutt]

I went to high school with the person who shared my name. boy was I (he) getting in trouble a lot. every time I had to go to the councilers it was the other one that did something. I even get pulled over by the police because they know me and asked if it was me. heck I even get his credit card junk mail.

[aknisely]

[chenko]

one "simon thwaites" on yahoo... and that is me (i know there is a simon thwaites that lives in london... i have met him )

ok lets try ICQ...

..damn thisloading thing reminds me how much i hate it GRrrr...

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3, one of them are me....

[DerFarm]

During the Fascist years of Portugal (1928-1976) [and maybe before....] there was a list of some small numbers of female names ( I think it was like 17 or 18) and another list of male names (about the same size). You HAD to choose from the list when you named your child.

That's why my wife (whose parents were good, German Jews) was named Catarina Isabella.

Strange.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Some names are fairly localised. There won't be many people with my full name scattered throughout the world, but there are definitely quite a few in the Scottish Highlands.

[kayoca]

Hi poeple, I am the only Kayoca on the web.. (i think).
I cant find my name anywhere..

[nishantp]

Lol im pretty sure im the only Nishant Pradhan out there. Although i searched ICQ a few years ago and there were other Nishants'. I dont use it anymore though.

[CiberTHuG]

It is because of this that I hate the way western culture names kids. I really like orginal names taken from words for a reason. "Dances With Wolves" may sound corny, but it is a good name, and much shorter in its original tongue, I'm sure. I also hate the western culture forces your surname last and makes it so you have to have three names, and only three. I know several confirmed catholics who just ignore their confirmed name since it doesn't fit on forms. Anyway, western culture has become too boring and pointless. Get married and you will see the number of stupid traditions that people blindly follow without understanding.

By the way, Katie has a son with my first and second name, but obviously with a different surname. I think there is a basketball player atleast with my first and surname.

[parksie]

Why does it force 3 names? I know lots of people with different numbers to that, and a couple with only one name

[plenderj]

How many "Jamie Plenderleith"s are there do you think ?

[DWillems]

How many of us are out there ?

6 billion I think

[scoutt]

no that is how many McDonalds has servered high levels of fat and cholesterol

[aknisely]

Nonsense, McDonald's food is perfectly healthy.

[DWillems]

Perfectly healthy for dead weasels

[parksie]

If you like eating dead rats

[kedaman]

like kittens do

[scoutt]

RATS

we had a chinese resturant that had a reputation of cooking cats that were from some of the wood mills. they didn't do so well as a business. I also heard that jack in the box makes kangaroo hamburgers.