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When I say friends, I mean real friends, people who visits you and vice versa with some regularity, people who you interact at least once a week, people you can trust and are totally reliable for you, people who are with you in the good times and in the bad ones.
I've just counted, and I'm finding it hard, despite your definition, to determine an exact number. I'm thinking about 13-20. One of my closest friends I haven't seen for well over a month, and therefore, going by your definition, she doesn't count? I don't like that, nor do I like to count my friends. Your definition, the one I've tried to stick to, is my list of what I'd consider very good or close friends. Friends are more general, and I'm not sure who'd I'd consider a friend or not. Hmm. Yeah, I'll go with 18. That's alright, I guess. Not massively popular nor loner-ish; I'm happy with that number.:)
2 for sure + 5 in the making. It really takes me a long time to truly consider someone my friend even if I see them often, have known them for over a year and have a relative sense of trust in them. They don't know this, but they remain in friend limbo to me for about 5 years. A couple of them are almost there.
I've had (and still do have) a very small number of internet friends who I genuinely consider in that capacity.
My friendship group here at university is about twelve people, with maybe seven or eight other good friends dotted around. Of that twenty, maybe six are "real" by your definition.
My friendship group at home has a similar number of people to my one at university. I'd say at least the same number of those are "real" friends too. So let's say fifteen overall "real friends".
I don't really like making a hierarchy of my friends because to me they're all good friends to me and I'd do a lot for any of them, and it feels like doing a great disservice to the others to call them "not real friends". I've been vague about it for that reason.