“Altogether, the census found six million surnames in the United States. Among those, 151,000 were shared by a hundred or more Americans. Four million were held by only one person.”
Four million were held by only one person ??
Doesn’t that strike you as odd? How could that be?
It doesn't strike me as odd at all...I'm guessing that number includes persons who are the last of their line in this country, those who have just immigrated and not yet started families, persons with non-traditional spellings of more popular surnames (i.e., Smythe, Jaansen, etc.) and the various pop culture circus freaks, rap stars, and their camp followers that have their show names legalized.
Indeed. Is that some sort of typo?
susie