I wonder why some nationalities/some countries, there are so many people with the same name. Could it be purposeful? Maybe a way to cause confusion and/or be invisible?
A Wip Wondering
I wonder why some nationalities/some countries, there are so many people with the same name. Could it be purposeful? Maybe a way to cause confusion and/or be invisible?
Hi. I’m Joe Normal. Not… ?
Ah, a Saturday morning drinker.
That’s your answer? What if, in America, there were 50 million Mike Smith’s? Would that cause any issues? Just wondering.
That you immediately went for the “conspiracy” answer points to either “wake and bake” or morning drinking. Sorry. People are named for favorite relatives, bible characters, the meaning of the name, etc. These names are generally cultural (very few Bobs in Sweden, etc.), and so tend to be in higher concentrations within ethnic populations. In some places it is indeed quite bad. I read somewhere that there are so many female Korean golfers with the same name that they have been given the additional designations 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. to distinguish them from each other. That happens quite often in very homogeneous and insulated cultures (Korea, Japan, etc.).
Try looking in the Los Angeles phone directory (do they still have those?) for Jose Garcia and see how many pages you find. I would bet more than a few full pages. I do remember searching the white pages once back in the 90s for Garcia and found 32 pages. A few less for Sanchez.
No, not a conspiracy other than perpetuating a culture and its preferences for naming children.
Now, onto Laquisha, Listerine, Romaine (a black broadcaster on Bloomberg – really), Daquarious, Female (with an accent of course), etc. These I would blame on stupidity.
You left out Placenta. Yes, someone named their daughter that because they thought it sounded nice. The stupid it burns.
It was a hypothesis. Last night I was watching a true crime show. The popo were having a difficult time finding a latin in Miami because his name was so common. The only way they could find him is because he had a missing eye. The popo actually paid as many children as they could find $20 each to go find a guy with that name and a missing eye. That is what they had to do to find the guy. It sounds like a pretty interesting way to disappear if desired. Ya know, like in the long game for freedom.
Did George Foreman really name all his kids George?
So all those facial recognition/cell phone GPS tracking technologies are just hype, huh?
Color me surprised.
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I had a very common last name as a child. When I got my drivers license, I discovered there was another chick living in the state of Missouri with my name(s), including my middle name of Elizabeth with a “z.”
So, my driver’s license had a little character to signify that… that was then. She wasn’t MY age… that would have just been too weird. Of course, when I got to basic training, I met my real cosmic twin.
I never met that Martha Brown, but I assume she was every bit as nice and wholesome as the other one(s) I knew. There were two.
I ain’t sayin’ he’s rotund, but, just look at him, man.
-The dude has more chins than a Shanghai phone book.
I have a book given me in 1971, when it was published, which informed me as a kid that there were 922,913 people named Jones in the United States and 951,320 people named Brown in the U.S.
Since, at that time, my last name was Brown, I felt like I was kind of famous. In an obscure and common sort of way.
The Smiths didn’t make the book, which is titled One Million and was written by a libtard who knew someone in the 60s and got paid to publish the thing.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7104754-one-million
It is out of print but I have one… That and five bucks will buy me coffee.
However, in this region of the country, where people put big wooden signs on their front lawns letting the world know the de Spains or the Jantz’s or the Younts, or, ironically, the Browns live here and there and wish us a Merry Christmas, well to some of us, that means something.
You go Mags, it means everything. Merry Christmas to all !!
Maybe way back Mr Brown and Mr Dong had some physical reproductive advantage that Mr Applewhite lacked.