That's using "David." Add in another 149 that have "Dave" as the given name. Hmmmm ... no wonder my International Man of Mystery status is so pervasive (if you leave my middle name out).
Ostensibly this is based on US Census data (1990). I've seen some folks be less than sanguine about the quality of the results, at any rate.
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I am one of only nine.
Now to find the other eight and eliminate them...
Zero.
Using both Dave and David, there are just 1308 folks who share my name. I looked up "John Smith" just for fun, and there are 49535 people who share that name. That's about 1% of the people who took that census.
Now that I look into the web page more carefully, it says that these are "just estimates" and that if they return zero for your name, it just means that you're among the 19% of the people whose names are so uncommon that they won't show up in the estimate. I guess this means the way to interpret the numbers is as a measure of the popularity of a name rather than as indicating the exact number of people who share that name.
