17 December 2005

Name registry

I found this cool. The Finnish Population Register Centre can tell you the number of registered (Finnish) people with your last name since the 19th century. Accordingly, for my last name:


Total no. Men Women In Finland Abroad
As present name 89 43 46 78 11
As former name 33 5 28 31 2
As dead persons' name 48 19 29 39 9
Total 170 67 103 148 22

Only 170 people have had it since identity numbers started being assigned. Should I feel any more unique?

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