Your name-what others look like

[shootingstar]

:confused:
It is a strange sensation for the first time, to see on the Internet what other gals look like --who have the same name set as I. I honestly assumed my name would tend to be for people in my age bracket. The first name was fashionable for a certain era. (Last name is one of the top most ubiquitous last names worldwide (of Chinese lineage) which is common knowledge for alot of name holders.)

Am wrong. So wrong. Or these women just look a whole lot younger than their age. Well, at least they like their stuffed toys. :rolleyes:

Still, abit freaky.

[badger]

I used to think my name was original, but then one day I was flipping through a local bookstore flier when my jaw dropped - an author by the exact same name. She's since written quite a few books and she has made it a bit difficult for me to order or reserve any books.

There's apparently someone else who goes to my GP with my same name, so when I'm calling to make an appointment I have to confirm with my birthdate and address.

[shootingstar]

I used to think my name was original, but then one day I was flipping through a local bookstore flier when my jaw dropped - an author by the exact same name. She's since written quite a few books and she has made it a bit difficult for me to order or reserve any books.

There's apparently someone else who goes to my GP with my same name, so when I'm calling to make an appointment I have to confirm with my birthdate and address.

Yea, that medical record file better be right all the time.

I'm a boring looking gal --sans cycling gear. Maybe one of the um, elders. Can't see grey-haired folks, or "honest" hair yet among those women. :D I love that --a cycling wise woman.

[Eden]

Apparently I'm the heroine in several popular romance novels......

holy moley - I'm romancing not only a handsome widower, but an FBI agent as well, and that's all in one book

darn, I can't seem to find the Antebellum set one right now

[Zen]

Apparently I'm the heroine in several popular romance novels......


You do get around, you hussy:p

[limewave]

There's a famous Tween author with the same name as me. I occasionally get fan email from young teenagers that somehow find my email from somewhere. Oye.

DH has a common name (first and last). In fact, there are several in our city (which isn't that big) that are close to the same age with the same name. One of them is on the sex offender registry, another fathered an illegitimate child, and yet another died in a car accident last year.

I got a letter in the mail a few years back from the mother of the illegitimate child. It was several pages long, a lot of pleading and begging for DH to be a part of this child's life. IT was a case of mistaken identity and definitely not my DH. That was a mess. We ended up hiring a lawyer. She did a search online for DH's name and our address came up. She assumed it had to be the same guy without looking into it any further.

THEN, when this other guy died in a car accident (same age and similar build as DH). I got three phone calls that day by friends/relatives that saw the accident on the news. Of course, I couldn't get ahold of DH as he was working on Lake Michigan and there are no cell signals. That was an anxious day!

[Roadtrip]

My other "alter ego" is a hot-shot photographer for big magazines (Harpers Bazaar, Glamour Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller, and the New York Times) so I sometimes joke that I'm a big-time photographer. I do enjoy shooting pictures and my Christmas light display, but not anything more then amateur.

I even had one Twitter user with my same name ask if they should be worried... apparently they're a UK politician or lawyer type, LOL.

Trouble is my middle name :D

[shootingstar]

Wow, limewave. :eek:

One of my sisters met in person another with same name set. They are both in the same licensed profession -- pharmacist. It was totally unexpected for both gals --neither had any inkling in advance.

[Crankin]

Nobody has my name, either my birth name or married name, with my first name spelled the way I spell it, in combination with either of the last names. Nobody spells any of my names correctly.
But, DH once went to pick up a rental car in Houston (or Dallas?) many years ago and the guy said, but sir, someone just came and picked up your car. There was another person with his same name who had rented a car! They then saw there were 2 reservations. His first name is common, but not the last. Well, it's not common in the US, but it is in Canada, though he is not related to that trucking company that is filthy rich.

[JennK13]

Like Crankin, I have yet to find someone with the same married name as me (though, my birth name is quite common). If people spell my last name correctly, they always find me right away on any of the social networks - they're never going to get "538" choices!!

[Possegal]

There is someone else at my work with my name. :( And she doesn't forward the emails that are meant for me. I've never met her, and rarely does the error occur the other way and I get her emails, but I always respond to the person that they sent it to the wrong person. She never does. The one and only time she forwarded it to me, it was from my brother. His emails don't cause me trouble at work if I don't get them. OY

Though her first name is the shortened version of mine, so I always have to tell people to use my given name, then they think they can't call me the shortened version, and I have to remind them that I'll answer to dang near anything.

If you google my name, you'd have to put in some other words to come close to getting the hits that are me. (and yes, doesn't everyone google themselves?) :)

I'd blame my mother, but my oldest sister named me. So I blame her. Dang common names.

[snowroo]

Crankin T**b**d**u? Is that you?

:)

[sfa]

I know you all will think I'm a stalker, but the only other person in the US who shows up if I google my name is a girl more than half my age, currently a sophomore at a state college in New York, and a pretty good field hockey player.

I've "known" her for about 8 or 9 years now--it's amazing how much revealing information people put online about kids. I can see why internet security is such an issue, although to be fair SHE wasn't the one putting the information out there--I found pictures online from her church newsletter when she was confirmed, schedule information about her high school field hockey games, information about her from her high school newspaper. I hadn't looked up my name for a couple of years so I didn't know she was in college, but now I do. It makes me realize that anyone can find anything about someone if they just do the bare minimum of looking.

Sarah

[Eden]

Like Crankin, I have yet to find someone with the same married name as me (though, my birth name is quite common). If people spell my last name correctly, they always find me right away on any of the social networks - they're never going to get "538" choices!!

I'm the opposite - my unmarried name is pretty unique - google it and I'm all that comes up. My married name is a lot less uncommon, though not exactly ubiquitous.

[lauraelmore1033]

There are many of "me" out there. One is even a woman I went to high school with who happened to marry a man with the same name as my husband. If I google my name, the first entry that pops up is the face book page of a gorgeous young woman who posts a lot of glamour type shots of herself. I get many e-mails from different people asking if I am the stunningly wonderful person they went to high school with. I never am. the other mees are just so much better than me; nobody's lookin' for "just me"...

[jessmarimba]

Googling me turns up a guy in San Francisco who works on some sort of youth council and takes up the first 10 pages of results.

...And a Liberty Ship that was sunk in 1945.

[crazycanuck]

Apparently i'm an author, actress and an information technology person...

No ships or historical places named after me though :(

[Crankin]

Snowroo, that is definitely not the name. Begins with M.

[KnottedYet]

Crankin T**b**d**u? Is that you?

:)

I've always thought Thibeadeau would be a good name for a dog. Wasn't there a dog in "Pogo" named Thibeadeau?

[m.eliza]

My first and middle names are both top 10 names for my generation, and my last name isn't very uncommon either, though I've never met anyone else with the same name. But a quick Google search confirmed that I am a body builder, celebrity makeup artist, and star of a pretty unknown music video. I guess I'm more versatile than I thought!

[shootingstar]

I get many e-mails from different people asking if I am the stunningly wonderful person they went to high school with. I never am. the other mees are just so much better than me; nobody's lookin' for "just me"...


But are they a cycling nut like you? I be they might be blown away by you, zipping along the bike. :) Or at least how your life has been transformed by cycling.

[IFjane]

My search turned up a judge and an herbalist. Oh yeah....and then this one..

[DebSP]

OK you made me Google myself! Apparently I am now unique! My maiden name was a really really common one and so are my given names. Back in the day when I wrote a cheque to pay for things, the salesperson would ask "did you live here? did you live there? did you live here?" etc. And I worked with a girl with the exact same name as myself in my late teens. We had to go by our hometowns so our boss knew who to pay what!:p

[Jolt]

My search turned up a realtor in CA, a high school art teacher in PA, some sort of project coordinator in London, an ophthalmologist in Germany, and an ob/gyn in Germany. Quite an assortment!

[snowroo]

I got it! Crankin Maritime-Ontario

[Crankin]

Nope, sorry. I think actually the company was involved in a huge lawsuit and is not in business anymore. But, I know my son keeps getting invitations to join their family e-mail or some type of web site, even though he has told them he is not related.

[Aggie_Ama]

My married name is either an activist in a very different part of the country and apparently a very polarizing one. I once got a hateful email addressed to her. My name is also shared with a dentist in Washington. There is also a "childminder" in England. My maiden name is less interesting, some old things I won in high school and just regular people still out there. It is a much less common last name but still not that rare.

[zoom-zoom]

Funny...I found lots of pics of my husband's cousin (her name is Kristin...not technically even the same name) and her hubby. When I use my maiden name there are a lot of photos of an artist with my name...I believe I had discovered that she lives in Canada a while back.

[moonfroggy]

my last name is extremely rare. googling it find only relatives i have met and very few of them. my first name is sort of common but not super common but i want to change my first name to one i actually like and the one i found that fits well and i like is pretty rare. so once all the legal paper work is done with i will have an extremely rare name. i try and not use my legal name online much because i don't like people knowing what i am up to and i would be the only me to show up. i almost never use my legal name in day to day non internet life anyway. just go by various nicknames.

[Owlie]

My first name is a more uncommon spelling of one that is relatively common. My last name is pretty rare, even in the UK (and no one spells either right).
Google comes up with...
-Several that are legitimately me. (University club web pages.)
-There's a couple in the Peak District who run some kind of small shop. The wife's name is the same as mine. (Weird part: the husband's is the same as my dad's!)
-Someone in Virginia
-You all would appreciate this: An Australian road racer. :D

[maillotpois]

This is what my doppelganger looks like:

http://sportsbore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Sarah-Burke-2.jpg

She is a world class skiier, and recently did a spread of some photos.... :cool:

[uforgot]

Well, I was the only one of "me" until I married a Smith. Lots of those, but now I'm back to my maiden name. Only one of me again. If I google only my last name, it's only close relatives. I always knew we were the only S....l family in the US, but I thought surely there were some German relatives, but it only comes up to be...us.

[esmorin]

First and last name turns up a college professor

at the Univ where I am getting my masters, I have the same first and last name as one of the professors, and several times I have gotten emails from students about projects, and some begging to be allowed to join a class.

Of course, i always find the emails several months later (I don't access my .edu address very often)..and i wonder what happened to that student (did she get in? Did she get a good grade on the assignment! haha )

[GLC1968]

My married name is a character from an 80's TV show AND an extremely common name all around. Google it and you'll never actually fine ME. It's a very odd sensation.

http://www.perlmanpages.com/tvseries/gfx/dfvincat19a.jpg

When I was single? Google me and you get me. ONLY ME. My surname is Greek in origin and when translated into the English alphabet/language you get all kinds of variations. My family's variation is unique. It belonged to only me, my brother, my mom, my dad and my dad's deceased sister. That's it. It made it REALLY difficult to remain private once Google became mainstream. :( It was actually part of the reason I chose to take my husband's name. I was tired of being so easy to find/research!

[Trek420]

Google first and last finds me. Google first name finds field hockey gear or burlesque. Google my last name finds depending on generation a musician/teacher/writer (but not waiter :rolleyes:), activists, and sometimes a very respected cantor.

[Biciclista]

there is only one me. I have to satisfy myself with meeting people who have my same first name... I just googled one of my names and came up with a cafe. and a muppet video. If i google my legal name I come up with a chocolate company... :)

[tulip]

I never heard of anyone with my first name until I was an adult. And googling my first name brings up only 4 people. In the whole world. One in Ohio, one in North Carolina, and one in Brazil. And me. That Is It. And they all have different last names.

My last name is pretty rare, too. No one has both my names. I rather like it this way.

[Biciclista]

well, Tulip, that's impressive. Neither (none) of my names are common, but they are had by thousands of people.. just not two of any of them.

[bmccasland]

The *other me* owns a winery in California. I keep wondering if she'd share?:rolleyes::p

[Eden]

Good grief.... my fictional alter ego has a MySpace page....

A search of my name these days mainly turns up me - mostly race results and credits in research papers (I'm a medical photographer/graphic designer) and my fun fictional friend who has torrid love affairs with FBI agents...

There's a few others, mostly kids or teenagers it seems. There used to be a horse breeder - but she's dropped out of sight.

[VeloVT]

Ugh. If you google my name... there is an internet porn star with the same name. And no, it is NOT me. She looks nothing like me, so if you met me you would know, but I definitely worry about potential employers. I find it disturbing, because some of the search results are really nasty (and that's just the textual metadata that shows up in the search, not whatever you see if you follow the link).

I can't imagine why she chose my name. It's a completely boring, waspy name that doesn't sound sexy or porn-starish at all.

Am I the only one with this problem? :mad:

[Crankin]

OK, I just googled my name... most of the posts are "trying to find -----?" for people looking for me.
But, quite disturbingly, there is a huge record of my posts here on TE. I changed my screen name from my real name about 3 years ago, but the posts are current ones :eek:. They are from a place called Board Tracker. Lots of graphs of how much I post, as well as my posts. I am not sure how they connected my name to Crankin, as all of my TE posts now show up as Crankin, even ones from when I was using my real name.
There's a couple of things on the Google list which are announcements of my son's promotions in the military that I put in the Boston Globe, as well as a couple of posts I wrote on the middle-lit list serve for English teachers about ten years ago. That's it. Definitely no one else with my name.

[Catrin]

I am the only person with my name that I've ever found on the internet. Even my last name is so unusual that an internet search just on that alone only brings up <30 people. No fictional characters, no porn stars (thankfully), just me. Which is why my Facebook page is the only place where I use my real name and that took some consideration.

I did check Board Tracker after Crankin's post and it has no record of my real name :) Thankfully, Catrin is simply a Welsh variation of Catherine and there are a lot of people out there using it.

Crankin - that is just spooky! I wonder how their system figured out that Crankin = <your real name>?

[Crankin]

Apparently, board tracker is an application that businesses use to see who is posting/buying stuff. When I clicked on "profile" on my board tracker page, it linked to Crankin's profile on TE (thankfully, I have nothing on there except my town), but the page is in my real name.
Susan? Does TE use this? Help!