How many unique names are there in UK?

[DavidG02]

Who would  have thought there were only 85 mc coy's

That's because you searched with a space - Mc Coy.

If you search McCoy, there are more.

But which one is the real one?



 

[Mowsehowse]

The name I was registered with at birth in 1951 does not come up at all on findmypast so I don't even exist......

....... Found the registration.  Phew!!

But only with an initial for my middle name, so it is quite difficult to know if anyone else has the same.

[Chilternbirder]

I think that my own tripple name is unique, sadly before around 1815 my ancestors seem to have taken the same approach to naming as the Monty Python "Bruce" sketch.

Non uniqueness goes the other way too with four different spellings for one surname (which findmypast didn't identify as variants), and that was just one of my gg grandmothers. Or my grandfather who seems to have had his Christian names registered the wrong way round as he was always known as Charles Reuben, even in his war record, marriage and death certificates rather than the registered Reuben Charles.

[coombs]

Giving your own examples of unique names is also relevant to the original question, it is so easy to cry out "off topic" when it is not really off topic is it? If you can expand the chat a bit, you get more out of it.

[IgorStrav]

This has made me search my full name, including my middle name, and this appears to bring up nothing on Ancestry or on Google.  So I am unique in this respect 

I have what I always thought was an unusual (and very slightly embarrassing) surname, and it was only through research that I found it wasn't unusual at all - especially in Kent - and that many people shared my first name as well.

But adding my middle name makes it more unusual, even though my middle name isn't unusual in itself.

My daughter has an unusual first name in this country - it's Italian in origin - but I recently found she had a namesake in Australia.  But I bet they don't share her middle name, though.

I would have thought that at any moment children will be born with otherwise unique names.

[pinefamily]

Googling my name, I found a couple of others around the world, but none when I added my middle name.

[pinefamily]

Who would  have thought there were only 85 mc coy's

That's because you searched with a space - Mc Coy.

If you search McCoy, there are more.

But which one is the real one?