How many unique names are there in UK?

[Ruskie]

Three from the same family I'd guess would be pretty unique are Denmiln Green, Andrina Jane Green and Mary McLaughlin Suttie Green. Given that, why is it so difficult to track down what happened to the last of those three?!

I bet she reverted to plain Mary Green-would you want to spend all your time explaining you were called Suttie, not Sooty-only to be told "Ah -the same as my cat!"

Suttie is a Scottish surname, with the highest concentration around Fife. One of the families I have researched are Suttie from Angus (Forfarshire).

[dawnsh]

My full name as a birth registration was unique to England & Wales.

However, there have been a couple of chaps with my birth surname who have married girls with my first name combination.

If you search my married name on the internet and online er's etc, there is me and one other person but she doesn't have my middle name but there's no birth or marriage registration to account for her?

My husband's name is unique to the birth index also.

[Erato]

I'm sure that there are lots of unique name combinations but individual examples of such don't go far in answering the original question:  How many are there?

[snaptoo]

Have been following this thread with interest

I googled my four names - no match

I then tried variations ie omitting one or other of my middle names - no match

I then tried all those variations with various spellings of my surname - no match

snaptoo

added........just googled Christian name and surname and there are lots of me!!

[Top-of-the-hill]

    Alas! - I have one of the commonest first names in my age group and my maiden name was pretty common. Then I married a man with one of the top ten surnames! Just checked and there were 68 of us registered the year I was born, and 240 combinations of my first name and his surname the year I was married.
    On the other hand, my grandfather was the only one with his two names 5 years either side of his birth.

[dawnsh]

I suppose you would need to find rare surnames and then unusual combinations of first names

This database was compiled in 2002

http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/

my maiden surname was ranked 3707 with 1992

my married surname was ranked 21947 with 191

[ScouseBoy]

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

[heywood]

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.

[ScouseBoy]

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.

  also those stats are forEngland and Wales only.