According to the website HowManyOfME.com, which is based on U.S.
Census Bureau statistics, 49,905 John Smiths live here in the United States.
Statistically, John is
the 2nd most popular first name for men. Nearly 5½ million people carry that
name. Some 99.63 percent of those given
the name John are men. If you do the
math, this means that 0.37 percent of those named John are something other than
male.
What are they, exactly?
The website is not clear
on that, but I have my suspicions.
The name Smith is the
commonest in the United States. There are
2,857,461 Smiths among us. Not surprisingly,
I know a few of them. I don’t, however,
know any of the John Smiths. Another interesting
thing is that no John Smiths were registered among the list of famous people
with the last name of Smith. I do recall
a certain John Smith being saved by Pocahontas.
Apparently, the folks compiling the figures thought Pocahontas should be
the headliner on that.
So, John, if you are
listening, you need to step up your game.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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