As it turns out, there are thirteen of us David Weirs living in California, according to a fascinating service via Google/White Pages I recently discovered.
"David" is the fourth most common first name in California, trailing #3, which is "Maria."
Nationally, "David" is also the fourth most common first name, trailing "James," but ahead of "William." There are over 1.3 million Davids in the U.S. Anecdotally, whenever I join a new company, it seems like there already is another David or two, no matter how small the firm might be.
California alone has over 97,000 Davids.
"Weir" is another story: There are only 493 Weirs in California, and we are ranked as the 1,777th most common surname, just ahead of "Cherry."
Nationwide, there are about 158 Americans named David Weir, only one of whom (yours truly) is listed in Wikipedia. My home state of Michigan is tied with California for the most David Weirs(13), with Texas, Florida, and New York close behind.
Overall, we apparently have 6,343 Weirs in America, which ranks 1,585 among last names, tucked in between Hirsch and Trejo.
You'd think with how many times I've reproduced, we could move up in the standings, but alas, there is one more Hirsch than there are Weirs. (Note to older kids: Get going. After all, both of our family names got shortened at the border!)
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4 comments:
Very Entertaining.
There are far fewer Daniels (ranked #22 nationally) out there than Davids... no surprise. Of course, Anderson is a blowout (ranked #8 nationally). Anonymity can be a good thing sometimes.
By the way, a weird curiosity overwhelmed me. Remembering the picture you posted of you friend Junko proudly displaying her temporary driver's license, I went back to pick up her last name to research in the same manner. While I'm quite sure no normal person will be confused about her gender, apparently normal isn't necessarily a requirement for employment at the license bureau.
With Japanese names, usually "ko" indicates a woman, i.e., Yoko, Kamiko, Junko, etc.
Interesting,
You might want to make this known to the license bureau employee who will make her permanent license before (s)he enters 'M' for sex on that document.
Yep, I have, but she is currently in a different timezone...Nashville. I alerted her that she should call the California DMV asap. Apparently, her Chinese tester was so proud that he knew a few words of Japanese that he screwed up her form. Such is life in a city where English is most people's second language.
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