- cross-posted to:
- offbeat@lemmy.ca
- weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
- cross-posted to:
- offbeat@lemmy.ca
- weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough.
Another attempt by the city of Kyle, Texas, to break the world record for the largest gathering of people with one name fell short Saturday despite 706 Kyles of all ages turning up at a park in the suburbs of Austin.
The crown is currently held by a town in Bosnia that got 2,325 people named Ivan together in 2017, according to Guinness World Records.
The largest ticketed concerts have had several hundred thousand attendees. I bet if they reviewed the names on the tickets, they’d find they set world records for gatherings of people with the same name without even realizing it.
Especially maybe for common names like John
And a lot of names are just alternate versions of John. Including Ivan!