Your name-what others look like

[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

[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!

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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 ), activists, and sometimes a very respected cantor.