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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

How Common Is My Name?

howcommonismyname.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A U.S. name-popularity checker combining Census counts, Social Security baby-name trends, and estimated full-name frequency.

Why it surfaced

This is more thoughtful than a simple popularity ranking: it separates how many people currently share a name from how fashionable it is with new parents, using 2020 Census data and SSA records reaching back to 1880. The site also explains the limits of its full-name estimate and keeps searches in the browser, giving a familiar curiosity tool unusual methodological care.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.