Maybe we'll meet one day

[shootingstar]

Maybe I'll meet the person...who has the same first and last name as I. She lives here in same city. Or maybe it will be too freaky. All I know is that she is an accountant. Total opposite of me since I am not strong numerically.

It did slightly freak me out when I lived in Toronto and discovered at the bank, there was another woman with same first, middle and last name who banked at the same branch. Incredible..in a city of over 2 million.

Met the person with same namesake as yours? Or maybe you're lucky to have a unique name stamp.

[Possegal]

I wish I had a unique name. Common last name, and a first name that was like top 10 around the year I was born and still usually makes the too 100.

When I first came to work at my current job, I was told that my email address was LASTNAMEfirstinitial@. Everyone else had just lastname@. Then I found out why, someone at my agency has my name. Now her first name is the shortened version of mine, but still, same name. Constant issues with emails going to her that should go to me, and never forwarded to me. UGH! Someone else within the same agency has my exact same name.

Back when I still lived in Pittsburgh.........

When opening a bank account once, I chose a PIN for my card and then when I got it, different PIN. They said, oh that's the one you had with your last account. YEP, not me. So I was stuck with a PIN that I could never remember because it meant nothing to me.

Had my hair cut once at a shop and they said, are we coloring it the same color as last time? I said - never been here before. YEP, someone with my name got their hair cut there before.

My 5th grade teacher ran into my mother one day when I was out of college. Told Mum she had been volunteering at a hospital in the area and she freaked out when she saw my name on a list of people in intensive care. Went in to check on me, but no, it was not me.

Got a call one night about selling my tickets to the Steeler game. First, I have no Steeler tickets, second, wouldn't sell them if I did. Turns out, the woman had called a number from the phone book that had my last name and my first initial. So happens, it was my brother. He gave her my number since he said he thought she really was looking for me (she told him she worked with me, not about having Steeler tickets, that he would have known was not me). So, some girl with my name has Steeler tickets.

One day when I still lived in Pittsburgh I came into work and opened the paper. In the obits section, there was someone listed who had the same name as the aforementioned brother. I chuckled and asked my boss if he thought my family would have called me to tell me my brother died. Of course it was not my brother (though he freaked out a lot of people at the courthouse when he showed up for work that day). But this man with my brother's name, who had just died, had a daughter with......wait for it....you guessed it....my name.

So, yeah, I know a thing or two about someone having my name. Is it possible that in Pittsburgh it was one girl with my name who previously had banked at my bank, got her hair cut at a new salon I tried, owned Steeler tickets, was in the ICU at one point, and had a father with the same name as my brother? Sure, it is possible. But I tend to fear it is actually more than just one girl in my hometown with my same name.

I sure do wish I'd either have had more creative parents, or not been so unlucky at love. (though I'd probably still keep my all too common name anyway).

[Eden]

I do not have a particularly common name, but I know that I have at least 2 fictional namesakes (both heroines of southern bodice rippers - one modern, one antebellum) and one real one who breeds and sells horses...

[Zen]

When I was in first or second grade there was another little girl with the exact name as mine; first, middle and last.
It was easy to tell us apart though,
I was the white girl

[sfa]

My first name is pretty common, but my last name not at all. The last time I googled it I found one other person in the US with the same first and last name. She's a teenager in New York state and I was able to find a ridiculous amount of information about her (what sports she plays and for which school, what youth group she attends, a picture of her from the youth group newsletter), so much so that it made me understand that it's not just kids who need to be warned about posting information on the internet--the adults in charge of youth activities really shouldn't be putting their newsletters online!

Sarah

[shootingstar]

So, yeah, I know a thing or two about someone having my name. Is it possible that in Pittsburgh it was one girl with my name who previously had banked at my bank, got her hair cut at a new salon I tried, owned Steeler tickets, was in the ICU at one point, and had a father with the same name as my brother? Sure, it is possible. But I tend to fear it is actually more than just one girl in my hometown with my same name.

May your fears, Possegirl be never realized. Some freaky stories of yours.
There are several of "me" worldwide..we probably fall in the same age bracket, since lst name made tops in 1940's-50's. Last name is on top 10 popular names worldwide among those with Chinese last names.

My partner has a common English first name and his last name. (He has and uses his legal German first name quite often) He once was a mailed a bank account statement...the other guy was 3 x richer than he.

A sister of mine who is a pharmacist met her namesake who was also a pharmacist. It was a freaky moment.

[SadieKate]

Um, my father and brother have the same name.

My husband has the same name as not only another resident in (the last towm) but his wife had the same first initial as I. We got calls from all his boy scouts. He also has the same name as a radio talk show host with diametrically opposite political beliefs.

I have a cousin I've never met with the same name.

You just deal with it.

[shootingstar]

Just shootin' the breeze with stories of the strange and wonderous in real life, SadieK.

Is that ok?

And no, no one in my extended family has my name. To me, it's just dull. Actually in my extended family there is an attempt to give a child a full name that truly doesn't exist yet in the family.

Methinks certain cultures tend to do that more often than other cultures, older generation naming first name and 2nd last name to younger generation family member.

[TsPoet]

Unless some very weird coincidence occurred sometime, there have been 3 people with my first name, my Grandmother and Second Cousin are both deceased, so it's just me now. The 3 of us all had different last names. I googled myself about 10 years ago and came up with a couple of mentions of me, surprised me, but OK.
I googled myself about 6 years ago and found out that a Star Trek roll player character had my name (one of those blue species with the antennae, can't remember what the species was called).
I googled myself about 4 years ago and found a maker of wine thermometers had my name.
I googled myself about 2 years ago and found that a "home for wayward girls" had my name. I was excited about that one, cool! Took me a few weeks to remember to google it at home, as I didn't want to click on that link at work. I was terribly disappointed to find out it has something to do with women-owned businesses.
Gosh, I feel like I just started a "figure out my name" game.

[Tokie]

I love my husband's last name! I transferred to a new high school as a sophomore. My same grade namesake there was a notoriously dysfunctional person. Teachers would call my name and look up with a snarl that changed to a smile when they saw I wasn't her. I think she changed to continuation school the year I transferred there, so we never met. At UC Berekley (admittedly, a large school) I was "Jane Ann Doe" (not my name, but close enough!) # 4!The registrar gave me a card to establish that I was her #4, not her 1,2 or 3! When I moved back to California and applied for my drivers license, they refused me because I had outstanding warrants under my full name AND birthdate! I convinced them that it wasn't me with my SS#. And motel clerks would always make cracks about my name when I called to make reservations about it being an alias. No beauty shop or PIN # experiences though - that's pretty bizzare! Tokie

[Blueberry]

To my knowledge, I'm the only person with my first and middle names (southern) and my DH's last name (not southern). Seriously. It's kinda cool.

Pre-getting married, there was someone who shared my name. With really bad credit. It took MANY hours to get her crud off my credit report

[snapdragen]

There is a woman with my name in Toronto, she's a yoga teacher. I wonder if we're distant relatives, my family went to Canada during the revolutionary war.

[Tuckervill]

I went all through high school with another girl who had my exact same name. It wasn't so bad.

If you google yourself, you may find lots of people with your name, no matter how unique you think it is!

Karen

[Tuckervill]

I have two brothers, one who married at least 20 years ago, to a woman named Debbie. Then my other brother married about 2 years ago, to a woman named Debbie. Now I have two sisters-in-laws named Debbie Clark!

Karen

[RoadRaven]

Met the person with same namesake as yours?

I went to collect my bus ticket when I was about 16 only to be told I already had - after much insistence the ticket person went to get the person who had collected my ticket... and she had my name! She lived about an hour out of the city lived in!