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When Will We Run Out Of Names?
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Hey, Vsauce.
Michael here. According to the U.S. Census Bureau
right now, in America, there are 106
people named Harry Potter. 1 007
named James Bond and eight people
named Justin Bieber. They're just
aren't enough names to go around.
There are more than 300 million people
in America but a hundred and fifty thousand last names and five thousand
first names
is all you need to name 9 out of every
10 of them. When are we gonna run out of names?
Perhaps it's already happened to you.
If it hasn't, when? Ten years, twenty years, a hundred, a thousand.
When will someone with your exact name
become famous? So famous in fact that your legacy
changes forever to just being not
the person people think of when they hear your name.
And for that matter, when will every reasonably memorable pronounceable
band name or brand name be taken?
When will authors have no choice but to just start reusing book titles?
According to Rovi Corp, owner of AllMusic.com,
the most used band name is 'Bliss',
followed in order by 'Mirage', 'One',
'Gemini', 'Legacy', 'Paradox'
and 'Rain'. In the past when
fewer bands had already been created and you couldn't just Google up
every single band, overlap was easier to get away with
and one word band names were plentiful. But now, after years and years and years
of
band formation, well, we have
'The Who', but we also have 'The What?',
'The Where', 'The When', 'The Why', 'The How'
and even 'The The'.
In order to stand out now, and have your own unique name,
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