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.