pattern in social security numbers?
first off, i'm not trying to get anyone's social security numbers, so please don't use yours answering this..
just riddle me this: coincidence or not?:
my boyfriend, best friend, and my own last four digits of our social security numbers all end with first and third numbers being the same. for example: 6264 5854 3531
i was thinking maybe it had something to do with the time frame we were all born in, because i work in an accounting office and i know not everyone's numbers are like that. (our ages are 22,18,and 21)
anyone else around that age have the same pattern in their last 4?
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Purely a coincidence - I'm surprised anyone would notice such a coincidence actually.
The information the other person gave you is close to being accurate but within the past two years the first three #'s no longer designate what area of the country a person was living in at the time they applied for the card. All #'s are assigned from one central location in numerical sequence. Which means that if they process an application from someone in San Francisco and the next one they process is from Chicago their #'s will only be one digit apart. The reason for that is because they ran out of #'s in the 500 range for the San Francisco region and are close to running out of #'s in another region as well.
Edit - Oh, and no. Mine doesn't do that.
Area numbers - The first three numbers originally represented the state in which a person first applied for a social security card. Numbers started in the northeast and moved westward. This meant that people on the east coast had the lowest numbers and those on the west coast had the highest. Since 1972, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has assigned numbers and issued cards based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the original application form.
Since the applicant's mailing address doesn't have to be the same as his residence, his area number doesn't necessarily represent the state in which he resides. For many of us who received our SSNs as infants, the area number indicates the state we were born in. You can find out which area numbers go with each state here.
Group numbers - These two middle digits, which range from 01 through 99, are simply used to break all the SSNs with the same area number into smaller blocks to make administration easier. (The SSA says that, for administrative reasons, group numbers issued first consist of the odd numbers from 01 through 09, and then even numbers from 10 through 98, within each area number assigned to a state. After all the numbers in group 98 of a specific area have been issued, the even groups 02 through 08 are used, followed by odd groups 11 through 99.)
Serial numbers - Within each group designation, serial numbers -- the last four digits in an SSN -- run consecutively from 0001 through 9999.
TL;DR - They look like they have a pattern because they have a pattern. its quite on purpose.