After meeting so many Patrick Coopers through this Web site, I got my first Patrick Cooper follower on Twitter today. He appears to be a new Patrick Cooper (to me). But bad news comes with the good — neither of us are in possession of @patrickcooper (whom I'm now following).

With information to StatCounter and a random visitor from Baltimore, we now know patrickcooper.com is the world's No. 1 online resource for patrick cooper crazy. I hold the top two spots and a third in the top 10, with three other spots going to comedian Pat Cooper, two to a musician named Patrick Cooper (the jazz one?), one to photographer James Patrick Cooper, and one — yes — to former Birmingham mayoral candidate Patrick Cooper. (The visitor looking for patrick cooper crazy stuck around to read eight pages of this site. We're crazy to please.)

In related searches, Patrick Cooper has a Who's Dated Who page. It's empty. But I can take consolation in Wikipedia, thanks to whichever Virginia friend put me on the Medill page, discovered by Cleo last week.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, the man who beat the Patrick Cooper who has our shared name's No. 1 search ranking, is in trouble. How much trouble? National trouble. "Mr. Langford, 60, was charged in the 101-count indictment with taking over $230,000 in cash, clothing and jewelry in exchange for ensuring that a widely known Alabama investment banker, William B. Blount, took part in lucrative bond deals related to the financing of improvements to Jefferson County's failing sewer system," the NYT says. "Those deals have led the county, which includes Birmingham, to the brink of bankruptcy."

The only mentions of the other Patrick Cooper so far come from Al.com commenters. "Let's hope Patrick Cooper gives it another shot, and a diverse coalition builds to support him," one says.  Here we go again?

As girls all over America shriek for the most sensitive film vampire in the desirously restrained world, my doctor is also named Edward Cullen.

In one way or another, as you know, this site has encountered: Patrick Cooper the star stylist, Patrick Cooper the author, Patrick Cooper the British child, Patrick Cooper who used to have this URL, Pat Cooper the comedian, Patrick Cooper the almost mayor, and Cooper Patrick. But we have room for so many more. This blog would like to welcome the visit of Patrick Cooper from Amsterdam, owner of patrickcooper.nl.

Expect a Facebook group at some point. The current one is no good.

I wrote this post Sunday and intended it to run today. But a surprise last night made it much more fun. Let's start with the original, then update.

"We could run a regression to figure this out. For instance, we could see when the Mini-Cooper was introduced and see if 'Cooper' babies show up in the data dispropriately that month. Or we could look at the trajectory of Anderson Cooper's ratings. Can we get the data by month — that would help with isolating cause and effect…"

In the spring, we looked at the rise of Cooper — and the fall of Patrick — as a first name. Amit offered the above advice and suggested I write baby Cooper Patrick to ask his parents about their name choice.

I did so, including my guesses on influences, if not for them then for others in the rising tide: Hanging with Mr. Cooper, Anderson Cooper and the Mini-Cooper. Not surprisingly, I got no reply. Spam filter? Random Internet pop culture baby name speculators, we get no respect.

If I had to bet, I'd have put my money on Mini-Cooper. It moved the name beyond particular people, placed it gently aside an increasingly popular brand but kept a human quality. The attitude and human aspects seemed key. There was no trend of baby Touaregs.

Yahoo Answers offered little help. "Do you like the name Cooper for a boy or does it sound too much like a last name?" came closest. The top user answer: "It's a good name — though trendy on two fronts – The surname as first name and the job-related trends (think Archer). So if you are looking to stay away from trendy, you'd have to keep looking."

With no evidence on the names, I have to admit I gave up. The topic was always one that could be revisited, especially if the rise continued. But I ended up finding some reward. Clicking through Social Security's name data, I came across the most popular names for sets of twins. The bookmark surfaced again last week, prompting this post.

Landon and Logan, Madison and Morgan, Jayden and Jaylen. Yes, my name's bizarro was winning, but at least I wasn't a twin name.

Now: The update!

With this post hours away from publishing, the father of Cooper Patrick randomly found this blog. Five months after I e-mailed the baby's site and likely got lost in a spam filter, we could thank Google and a butterfly flapping its wings somewhere. Then, even better, Cooper Patrick's mother wrote to give the long-awaited story on their name.

They turned out to be cool, and the mom was even a Herald reporter.  "People always joke that we have a domain name for our son, but here's why – my husband works in IT," Jennie Piedra commented. "And as for the name Cooper, we just loved it. Patrick is a family name."

So: Hangin' with Mr. Cooper did not influence the naming of her baby. Jennie wrote in an e-mail, however, that people ask she and her husband all the time if Cooper is named after the Mini-Cooper.

(In other news, Cooper Patrick loves crackers and spaghetti.)

Dear other Patrick Coopers, I have bad news. If you've been waiting to grab this domain name upon its expiration, you're going to have to dig in for the long haul. After eight years with the URL, I've just extended my lease for nine more years. If your robot shoppers want to take the name from 37-year-old me at that point, they're welcome to try. But my robots are going to ready, and the rumble's gonna be fierce. You bring your holograms. We'll bring our monorails. That's how we do it in 2017.

But the man who beat him in last year's hotly contested Birmingham mayoral race sure would like to. The New York Times is either intrigued or amused enough to have a piece on the proposal in Sunday's paper.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In his first year as Birmingham's mayor, Larry P. Langford has proposed a $500 million domed stadium, a $125 million law enforcement complex and a $33 million trolley car network.

But those ideas were dwarfed by Mr. Langford's proclamation this month: He wants the Olympics.

"Why shouldn't Birmingham host the Olympics in 2020?" Mr. Langford, 60, asked in an interview at City Hall, smiling coyly and puffing a menthol cigarette.

The menthol line is weird, given how much coverage the Times has given to the semi-coded race issues around those cigarettes this summer. But the story's a good read overall. Is Langford trying to distract the city? He says no. Where's the Patrick Cooper reaction?

Spotted walking through one of the casinos on the Reno strip. (I was walking, not the sign. But that would've been cool. Like the flashing Esquire cover.)

My taste buds were so confused. All of the logo deliciousness was there, and I knew about the coastal name differences, but still. Well, at McDonald's you can buy a Krusty Burger with cheese, right? But they don't call it a Krusty Burger with cheese. 

I wondered about the ice cream parties. Did Dreyers have their own? What were their parties like? What kind of upside-down neighborhoods won them? Would Cooper Patrick grow up to win one? Would he one day take my ice cream? Should I be concerned?

I'd like to announce the official end of the Birmingham mayoral election.

Yes, the legal challenges have been over for months, but I'm talking about the real issue. The search battle, which Amit first raised in October, is done. As of Saturday, Patrickcooper.com is once again Google's No. 1 result for "Patrick Cooper," with quotes or without.

Despite returning to the top, I don't plan to rest on my laurels — as comfortable as those laurels may be. (They're ticklish.) The fall's victorious candidate, SEC-probed Mayor Larry Langford, is still prone to mention his opponent. "According to Langford, the federal investigations into him are the evil machinations of his campaign opponent Patrick Cooper and, of course, the media," Birmingham Weekly's Kyle Whitmire writes this month. "It's all one great conspiracy. I'm still waiting on my black helicopter."

In greater seriousness, I'm also rooting for Birmingham's Terminal. After being kind and amused enough to link to this blog during the election, finances have run rough for the indie's efforts. I'm going to pick up a T-shirt. Please check out the site when you get a chance.

Nevermind on the search results
Update at 6:36 p.m. ET Wednesday: The quest goes on. Continuing his streak here, Amit brought me the bad news. My blogging about Cooper beating Patrick on the baby name list and the included mentions of other Patrick Coopers apparently put me over the top only temporarily.