How many of you are there?

[Troll King]

I'm not sure how you'd pronounce Gal's name correctly, but we can all be pretty sure that it's not thix.

[DoTheFandango]

Thuh-jiss
Thee-jees
Thuh-jeez

[Facetious]

I'm still naming my son Thijs. I'll call him Thidgets. Whatever.

[Jerome Scuggs]

going on what gall said, i come out saying "thighs-j"

[DoTheFandango]

Thijs: You can use phonetic spellings and we will understand. We don't just read English words.

This is the thing, there is no English phonetic for it. It's really crazy, languages with different bases. We can fudge French, Spanish, and Italian, because they contain Latinate roots and their phonetics sound like English, the same with some German. Dutch is much different and our vocal sensors are not used to their pronounciations, thus writing it down will do it no justice.

[Depre]

# There are 662,931 people in the U.S. with the first name Gregory.
# Statistically the 70th most popular first name.
# 99.77 percent of people with the first name Gregory are male.

who the hell would name their girl Greg

[genocidal]

Thijs: You can use phonetic spellings and we will understand. We don't just read English words.

[Galleleo]

Pronounciation is technically not language specific, is it not?

Donno about that, but English doesn't know the ij. There is not one english word I can possibly think of that has the correct dutch pronounciation for the lettercombination ij. Closest pronounciation possible in english for my name is ice with a T infront.

[Jeenyuss]

There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Connor.

# There are 47,995 people in the U.S. with the last name O'neill.
# Statistically the 716th most popular last name. (tied with 54 other last names)




this is bullshit?
how the fuck can there be no Connor? i even tried Conor!

I then tried my fathers name Liam and it got 0 too ... wtf

given the large number of Irish Americans i find it hard to believe that these common irish names don't appear in the whole of the USA

And it's O'Neill not O'neill stupid fucking thing autochanges it ... I HATE YOU http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/search/

my middle name is liamB)

[Mr. Peanuts]

You can't properly pronounce it tho.. I can give you an english pronounciation but it isn't the proper one

Pronounciation is technically not language specific, is it not?

[Pressure Drop]

There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Connor.

# There are 47,995 people in the U.S. with the last name O'neill.
# Statistically the 716th most popular last name. (tied with 54 other last names)




this is bullshit?
how the fuck can there be no Connor? i even tried Conor!

I then tried my fathers name Liam and it got 0 too ... wtf

given the large number of Irish Americans i find it hard to believe that these common irish names don't appear in the whole of the USA

And it's O'Neill not O'neill stupid fucking thing autochanges it ... I HATE YOU http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/search/

[Galleleo]

You can't properly pronounce it tho.. I can give you an english pronounciation but it isn't the proper one.

Thing is, in the Netherlands, Thijs is a very common name. And I know 3 people who have the same name as me (last and first name).

When I was born, my mom and dad also send out a card to friends we have in England, so the card just said: Born and this and that date Thijs A. A. V. and they couldn't figure out if I was a boy or a girl so they send a little dress as a present.

[Facetious]

I'm naming my first born son Thijs.

[Ara]

Q: No, really. How accurate?

A: Well, it's hard to say. In order to determine how accurate this program is, we would need a program that was completely accurate for comparison purposes. If we had a program that was completely accurate, we'd use that program instead of this one. At that point, discovering how accurate this program is would no longer be worth the effort. Therefore, we can fairly confidently say that it is impossible to determine how accurate this program is. (Confused? We're just warming up.)

In our completely non-expert opinion, we say that the program gives a decent ballpark estimate, but it shouldn't be used for anything more than that.

Q: Why isn't it more accurate?

A: There are a number of possible sources of inaccuracy:

First and foremost, the program is based upon a convenient fiction. Without getting too technical, the program makes the assumption that a person's first and last names are independent of one another. What this means is it assumes that the probability of a person having a particular first name is the same no matter what last name they have. It isn't.

So, for example: The program assumes that the chance that your first name is "Juan" is the same, regardless of whether your last name is "Arteaga" or "Epstein". Episodes of Welcome Back Kotter aside, we would hazard a guess that there are not that many people in the U.S. actually named "Juan Epstein". Depending upon what your family name is, it makes certain first names more likely, and certain others less likely. The program cannot compensate for that.

Second, the data is old. The data for this program comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 census. That makes the data about 16 years old or so. This is the most recent name data available from the Census Bureau (the 2000 census did not include name data), but it's still old, and it's accuracy may be slightly questionable.

yawn, we have a finnish website that has totally accurate information conserning
first names and last names. This website is based on 16 years old database
and makes wild guesses...

[Ara]

Very cute, dumbass. Too bad his name isn't "Dick."

thank god there's only one of those war crazy idiots.

# There are 20,998 people in the U.S. with the first name Ali.
# Statistically the 1257th most popular first name. (tied with 61 other first names)
# 85.71 percent of people with the first name Ali are male.

# There are 20,998 people in the U.S. with the last name Ali.
# Statistically the 1664th most popular last name. (tied with 279 other last names)


Not a single guy/girl named Arttu in the usa? That's quite hard for me to
believe.