What do the numbers in a social security number mean?

Mine is 469-01-1511. A girl I know has the exact same SS# except one digit off. Is this likely or is a government mistake?What do the numbers in a social security number mean?
You really shouldn't post your Social Security number on Yahoo. Not a good idea. Anyway here you go-








The Social Security number is a nine-digit number in the format ';123-45-6789';. The number is divided into three parts.





* The Area Number, the first three digits, is assigned by the geographical region. Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the office code in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be in the area where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant's mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, neither prior to 1972, nor since.





Generally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward, so that people on the east coast had the lowest numbers and those on the west coast had the highest numbers. As the areas assigned to a locality are exhausted, new areas from the pool are assigned, so some states have noncontiguous groups of numbers.





Complete list of area number groups from the Social Security Administration





* The middle two digits are the group number. They have no special geographic or data significance but merely serve to break the number into conveniently sized blocks for orderly issuance.





* There is a theory that the two middle digits can be used to identify a person's ethnic background. This is debunked as an urban legend on snopes.com as well as on the Social Security Administration's website.





The group numbers range from 01 to 99. However, they are not assigned in consecutive order. For administrative reasons, group numbers are issued in the following order:





1. ODD numbers from 01 through 09


2. EVEN numbers from 10 through 98


3. EVEN numbers from 02 through 08


4. ODD numbers from 11 through 99





As an example, group number 98 will be issued before 11.





* The last four digits are serial numbers. They represent a straight numerical sequence of digits from 0001-9999 within the group.What do the numbers in a social security number mean?
I don;t know...... but I hope that's a fake number be smart and don't post your personal info online.
As posted above, you really shouldn't post your social security number in a public forum or anywhere else on the web.





This is from the same page that is quoted above.





Identity theft





Many citizens and privacy advocates are very concerned about the disclosure and processing of Social Security numbers.





The SSN is frequently used by those involved in identity theft, since it is interconnected with so many other forms of identification, and because people asking for it treat it as an authenticator 鈥?it is generally required by financial institutions to set up bank accounts, credit cards, and obtain loans, partially because it is assumed that no one except the person to whom it was issued will know it.





Exacerbating the problem of using the social security number as an identifier is the fact that the social security card contains no biometric identifiers of any sort, making it essentially impossible to tell whether a person using a certain SSN is truly the person to whom it was issued without relying on some other means of documentation (which may itself have been falsely procured through use of the fraudulent SSN). Congress has proposed federal laws that will restrict the use of SSNs for identification and ban their use for a number of commercial purposes, e.g. rental applications[1].





The IRS offers alternatives to SSNs in many places where providing untrusted parties with identification numbers is essential. Tax preparers can acquire a Preparer Tax Identification Number, or PTIN to include on their client's tax returns (as part of signature requirements). Day care services have tax benefits, and even a sole proprietor should give parents an EIN (Employer id number) to use on their tax return.





The Social Security Administration has suggested that, if asked to provide his or her Social Security number, a citizen should ask which law requires its use.
idk but i've heard that if the last digit in your social security number is odd then ur more likely too get approved for something because the majority of the time that means ur caucasian but this is only what i've heard so therefore its only hear say