One of my friends sent me a really cool link.
As you may know, we’re very cognizant here at The Casual Perfectionist of all googleable names. That’s why we don’t give much identifiable detail around here…If you have a unique name, you’re easy to find. If you have a common name, the task becomes harder. That’s neither good nor bad, just the way it is. Do with that information what you will.
Imagine my surprise when I put in my maiden name and saw this:
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(There are over 200,000 people with my first name in the US, but there is only one with my combination.)
Yep. It’s official. There is only one of me. I think I knew that already. 
What I didn’t know was that I’m the only person to have my first-name/maiden-name combination. That’s pretty cool…and definitely googleable.
When I add my married name to the mix, I get this:
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(There are over 30,000 of us running around, but only 25 with my combination.)
That’s a little bit bigger crowd to hide in, but not impossible to see me standing over there with my red-hair.
I always thought my name was unique, until I was at a family gathering at my inlaws’ house in the Midwest, four or five years ago. There were people I’ve never met before there, and one woman in particular that I didn’t remember meeting.
I’m not shy in social situations, so I walked right up to her and stuck out my hand. As we shook hands, I said, “I don’t believe we’ve met. I’m Momma LastName.”
Imagine my surprise when she said, “Really? So am I!”
Talk about a funny coincidence. We’d both married into the same exact name. Some relatives standing around us started to laugh, getting a real kick out of the two Momma LastNames meeting each other for the first time.
“We thought you knew there was another!”
I hadn’t, and this was not what I was expecting at all!
She said she knew I existed, since the inlaws talk about us all the time, but because she was married to a more distant cousin, and hadn’t been at any other family gatherings, I hadn’t known of her existence.
So…if you’re bored, go check out the link. It’s fun to plug in different names and see the results.
Out of curiosity, I put in Claire’s name combination and got this result:
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(There are over 90,000 Claire’s in the US…but only 11 with this combination.)
As far as I know, I don’t know any other people with that name, but who knows? Maybe we’ll meet another one of those at a family gathering in the future.
Note: The title of this post comes from one of my favorite movies. And it popped into my head when I saw my results. 
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