Is somebodys name Really John Doe???

Question:I know its a deads persons name...( that they dont know who it is )

If you can find proof please show...

>John Doe

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know its a deads persons name...( that they dont know who it is )

If you can find proof please show...

>John Doe

There are definitely people named John Doe. Here is a link to the Social Security Death index.

http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/

Simply enter John Doe and you will see that they have 45 death records. These were REAL people.

Here is another way to tell.... Go to this site
http://www.melissadata.com/cgi-bin/peopl...

Again, type in John Doe and you will see that they have about 100...

Doe is a surname... is it really that unlikely that one or more of them named their son John?

Quite likely

http://www.howmanyofme.com

There are 4,984,645 people in the U.S. with the first name John.
Statistically the 2nd most popular first name.
99.63 percent of people with the first name John are male.

There are 18,220 people in the U.S. with the last name Doe.
Statistically the 1943rd most popular last name.

There are 299 people in the U.S. named John Doe.

There are 303,663,999 people in the U.S.

(All numbers estimated based upon statistical and
demographic data from US Census Bureau.
For entertainment purposes only. I found this out about my name--There are 106,282 people in the U.S. with the first name Jan. Statistically the 511th most popular first name.

This is a really fun site, finding out how many others share your name, when you thought it was one-of-a-kind. :)
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Okey, dokey. Here it is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe

The name John Doe is generally used as a placeholder name for a male party in a legal action or legal discussion whose true identity is unknown. Male corpses or emergency room patients whose identity is unknown are also known by the name John Doe. A female who is not known is referred to as Jane Doe. A child or baby whose identity is unknown can be referred to as Baby Doe or, in one particular case, as Precious Doe. Additional people in the same family may be called James Doe, Judy Doe, etc. This practice is widely used in the United States of America, though rarely used in other English-speaking countries (with the exception of Canada). Evan Morris, author of the syndicated column The Word Detective[1], says he discovered the origin of "John Doe" in the book What's in a Name?, by Paul Dickson.

Dickson says John Doe dates from the reign of England's King Edward III (1312-1377). A famous legal document from this period labels a hypothetical landowner "John Doe," who leases land to a "Richard Roe," who then claims the land as his own and kicks out poor John.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary states that John Doe is "the name given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff, in the (now obsolete) mixed action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being called Richard Roe". Likewise, the Nuttall Encyclopaedia states that John O'Noakes or John Noakes is a fictitious name for a litigious person, used by lawyers in actions of ejectment.

The Doe names are often, though not always, used for anonymous or unknown defendants. Another set of names often used for anonymous parties, particularly plaintiffs, are Richard Roe for males and Jane Roe for females (as in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision Roe v. Wade).

Even outside the specific legal context, the name John Doe is often used in general discourse and popular culture to refer to an unknown person. A famous example is the Frank Capra film Meet John Doe.

I went to college with a guy named John Doe. He only had difficulty if he was stopped by the police for speeding or something of that nature. The police wouldn't believe it was really his name.