Your name-what others look like

[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!

[snowroo]

I got it! Crankin Maritime-Ontario

[esmorin]

First and last name turns up a college professor

at the Univ where I am getting my masters, I have the same first and last name as one of the professors, and several times I have gotten emails from students about projects, and some begging to be allowed to join a class.

Of course, i always find the emails several months later (I don't access my .edu address very often)..and i wonder what happened to that student (did she get in? Did she get a good grade on the assignment! haha )