Your name-what others look like

[shootingstar]

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.

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. 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

[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

[shootingstar]

Wow, limewave.

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"...