How many Mikes do you know?

Recently I sat with a business contact and we were trying to figure out the name of someone we knew and the name of his company.

We knew the guy’s name was Steve or Steven or Stephen, but we were not exactly sure.

We joked that our contact lists were filled with lots of people with the same name.

We eventually figured out it was Stefan and then we figured out the company he worked for.

This got me wondering – how many different names do I know.

So, to figure out how many duplicate names I have in my contact list, used a little Microsoft Excel Magic against my Outlook Business contact folder.

This is what I found:

Out of 2557 people, here is a list of the names that showed up more than 20 times each.

First Name	Count
Mike or Michael	77
John, Johnnie, Jon	70
Robert or Bob or Rob	70
David or Dave	67
Steve or Stephen or Steven	43
Jim or Jimmy	42
Christopher or Chris	38
Thomas or Tom or Tommy	38
Michael	35
Bill or William	34
Jeff or Jeffrey	32
Tim or Timothy	30
Scott	28
Dan or Danny, Daniel	26
Mark or Marc	26
Susan or Sue	24
Andrew or Andy	21
Joe or Joseph	20
Patrick or Pat	20
41 Names	741

Each of these individuals are unique in their own right, even though, not in name.

There were another 774 names that showed up less than 20 times each for a total of 1816 people.

Based on my not so scientific research – there are a bunch of Michaels, Johns, Roberts, Steves, Davids and Jimmy’s.

In my contact list there is only 1 Zeb, Yasser, Vedda or Tug. And, yes each of these individuals are also unique in their own right, not just in name.

I hope you enjoyed this little un-scientific research.

Teddy