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Oscars: Here's how many people share names with nominees




There's only one Oscar-nominated Bradley Cooper, but there are over 300 other guys that go by "Bradley Cooper."

Ahead of the Academy Awards Sunday, Whitepages went through its database of over 600 million phone numbers and determined how many people in the U.S. could hear their names called during the Oscar telecast. Some highlights:

From 'American Sniper':


Clint Eastwood - 13 people have this name, the most in Mich. (3)

Bradley Cooper - 305 people have this name, the most in Tex. (24)

From 'The Imitation Game':


Benedict Cumberbatch – 0 – of course no American has this fabulous name.

Keira Knightley – 0 – again, this name is clearly not American

From 'Birdman':


Michael Keaton - 164 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Ohio (19)

Edward Norton - 297 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Mass., where Norton was born (39)

Emma Stone - 87 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Ala. and Calif. (7 each)

From 'Selma':


Oprah Winfrey - 2 - one in Calif., one in Ga.

From 'Boyhood':


Richard Linklater - 5 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Tex. (2), where the director lives

Ethan Hawke - 2 people who spell their name the same; one in Idaho and one in Tenn.

Patricia Arquette - 9 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Mich. (3)

From 'Theory of Everything':


Eddie Redmayne – 0 – no one in the Whitepages database has the exact name this Brit does

Felicity Jones - 27 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in N.Y. (5)

From 'The Grand Budapest Hotel':


Wes Anderson - 131 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Ill. (11)

From 'Foxcatcher':


Mark Ruffalo - 14 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Calif. (3)

From 'Wild':


Reese Witherspoon - 5 people in the Whitepages listings have this name; the most in Fla. and S.C. (2 each)

From 'Still Alice':


Julianne Moore - 57 people in the U.S. have this name, the most in Calif. (5)

From 'The Judge'


Robert Duvall - 422 people have this name, the most in Md. (48)

From 'Into the Woods'


Meryl Streep - 0 – There's only one (American) Meryl

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