sodden thought

I'm sitting here looking at old old luggage labels (and other hotel advertising papers,some are clearly not luggage lables)(by way of Abi's partihelia at Making Light). And Of course, I'm thinking of stories to go with these luggage labels, as you do, and suddenly I'm wondering:

Is it possible there are more fictional Europeans of the late 19th century-earliy 20th century, all told, than there were real ones? Or is it possible that there are more fictional people in some smaller piece of geography, say, Paris, or Bath?