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They call it “The Gathering of the Kyles.” Last year, 1,490 people named Kyle stood and were counted in Kyle, Texas. They were hoping to make the Guiness Book of World Records for largest gathering of people with one name. The current record holder is Kupreski Kosci, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2,325 Ivans were present there July 30, 2017, and no one has broken their record yet. The organizers of last year’s Gathering of the Kyles would have need almost twice as many Kyles to make their goal. No doubt they intended to make a better showing last month. But this year only 706 Kyles showed up. Maybe they didn’t advertise their event well enough. Or maybe they just picked the wrong name. Kyle was the 53rd most popular baby boy name twenty years ago. If they’d held a “Gathering of the Jasons and Brittanys,” they might have had a better chance.