blockchain.info wallet claims they have over 7 million users, right on the wallet homepage.
As you already told, one person can have several accounts, but I believe it is safe to assume at least 3-5 million users tried Bitcoin for short amount of time. Coinbase has at least million accounts as well, and these are verified by government isued ID - so pretty much these numbers represents real people.
I agree with you. the data shows that there are over 7 million users, but I am not sure either that the users are different for each wallet. probably some wallet is owned by a person, or there are many people forget their private keys or forget their password, so they create new wallet. that makes the users increase, but in fact amount of people using the wallet does not reach 7 million at all.