Maybe we'll meet one day

[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.

[badger]

a relatively famous author has the same name as me. Thankfully she's not that known, but I get asked often enough if I'm her or if I was named after her. She's not much older than me, so the latter isn't it, but neither is the former. Just our parents all thought it was a cool name

There was supposedly someone in Vancouver with the same name as me but I haven't come across her in a while (used to come up when calling cable or utility companies).

[OakLeaf]

My first name is very common, my last name is one of those names that most people have met one person with that name. No, we're not related. There are a dozen or two people nationwide with my same first and last name (interestingly, at least two on Google are doctors), but I'm not aware of anyone with my same middle name as well.

Years ago there was a teacher in the next town over that shared my name. We used to get each other's mail pretty regularly, but never met. When she got married, I got a few congratulations, but she took her husband's last name and that was the end of that.

[alpinerabbit]

I share names with a TV presenter, so lucky if someone googles me, that person turns up first and I can do my subversive activities without fear of retribution

[tulip]

My first name is a very uncommon southern double name. My last name is also quite uncommon except in pockets of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Virginia, and Pakistan (but that's not my ancestry). I never heard of anyone with my first name until I was in my 30s. I was looking at a bulletin board and there was a notice with my name on it, but with a different last name. Turns out, she worked in the same office complex. I called her up, but she wasn't so impressed as I was.

Googling, I have found one other person with my first name in Ohio, and one in Brazil (with a Japanese last name). Go figure.

I don't think I'll ever find anyone with my first and last name, not to mention in combo with my middle name (which is very common).

[malkin]

Last time I googled my name I found I share with a minister at a mega-church in Seattle. So far, I'm not aware that anyone has confused the two of us.

[HillSlugger]

My full name is a Googlenope. Without the middle name it's pretty common.

[shootingstar]

Google only covers part of the world. Not everyone has their name published on the Internet. Probably more people who would have your name set than recorded on the Internet.

Wang Tao-- a Chinese name set, that has over 100,000 guys who have it. (Wang is a last name.) No doubt, there must be English language equivalents, ie. John Brown or Bill Smith.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06...urname_crisis/

http://www.squidoo.com/chinesesurnames

I am aware there is a woman with same name set as myself who is also a librarian but in the U.S.

[Aggie_Ama]

When I got married I discovered there is a fairly famous person in some circles (I had never heard of her) with my new name. I guess she is a polarizing person because I get fan and hate mail addressed to her delivered mistakingly to my email on occasion.

Funny thing, my maiden name is a little more unique. I have second cousins named Gary and Alan, when I worked in another town I met a man named Alan with the same last name as me who coincidentally had a brother Gary. And yes the birth order was the same. Then the twilight zone music started playing.

[short cut sally]

My DH has the same name as an area Trooper. I got pulled over once, they asked who my husbands name was, told them, they let me go. I wasn't lying. I just wasn't telling them which L.J. I was married too

[uforgot]

My maiden last name is so unusual that the only people in the US that have it are relatives. I married and then was a Smith. Now I'm back to my huge maiden name that I have to spell all the time. When I google my last name, I only get my brother, nephews and my school web page.