I went on howmanyofme.com because I had nothing better to do. This site lists the number of people in America with a name the same as the one you type in. I figured it would be fun to find out how many people share names with my characters.
Louisa Alcott- 0 Lydia Baum- 8 Markie Clemens- 0. As if she didn't have a big enough head. Ralph (Waldo) Emerson- 56 Nathaniel Hawthorne- 7 Romeo Montague- 1 John Proctor- 599. Wow. They'd better no do anything horrendous that will make people hate the name, because that would tear John up. Anthony Trollope- 1. As if Anthony didn't feel isolated enough.
Louisa's very happy about that. She doesn't want any other short part-Japanese girls on him. Although, if there was another Louisa walking around, that'd be kind of cool.