Your name-what others look like

[maillotpois]

This is what my doppelganger looks like:



She is a world class skiier, and recently did a spread of some photos....

[uforgot]

Well, I was the only one of "me" until I married a Smith. Lots of those, but now I'm back to my maiden name. Only one of me again. If I google only my last name, it's only close relatives. I always knew we were the only S....l family in the US, but I thought surely there were some German relatives, but it only comes up to be...us.

[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 )

[GLC1968]

My married name is a character from an 80's TV show AND an extremely common name all around. Google it and you'll never actually fine ME. It's a very odd sensation.



When I was single? Google me and you get me. ONLY ME. My surname is Greek in origin and when translated into the English alphabet/language you get all kinds of variations. My family's variation is unique. It belonged to only me, my brother, my mom, my dad and my dad's deceased sister. That's it. It made it REALLY difficult to remain private once Google became mainstream. It was actually part of the reason I chose to take my husband's name. I was tired of being so easy to find/research!

[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.

[Biciclista]

there is only one me. I have to satisfy myself with meeting people who have my same first name... I just googled one of my names and came up with a cafe. and a muppet video. If i google my legal name I come up with a chocolate company...

[tulip]

I never heard of anyone with my first name until I was an adult. And googling my first name brings up only 4 people. In the whole world. One in Ohio, one in North Carolina, and one in Brazil. And me. That Is It. And they all have different last names.

My last name is pretty rare, too. No one has both my names. I rather like it this way.

[Biciclista]

well, Tulip, that's impressive. Neither (none) of my names are common, but they are had by thousands of people.. just not two of any of them.

[bmccasland]

The *other me* owns a winery in California. I keep wondering if she'd share?

[Eden]

Good grief.... my fictional alter ego has a MySpace page....

A search of my name these days mainly turns up me - mostly race results and credits in research papers (I'm a medical photographer/graphic designer) and my fun fictional friend who has torrid love affairs with FBI agents...

There's a few others, mostly kids or teenagers it seems. There used to be a horse breeder - but she's dropped out of sight.

[VeloVT]

Ugh. If you google my name... there is an internet porn star with the same name. And no, it is NOT me. She looks nothing like me, so if you met me you would know, but I definitely worry about potential employers. I find it disturbing, because some of the search results are really nasty (and that's just the textual metadata that shows up in the search, not whatever you see if you follow the link).

I can't imagine why she chose my name. It's a completely boring, waspy name that doesn't sound sexy or porn-starish at all.

Am I the only one with this problem?

[Crankin]

OK, I just googled my name... most of the posts are "trying to find -----?" for people looking for me.
But, quite disturbingly, there is a huge record of my posts here on TE. I changed my screen name from my real name about 3 years ago, but the posts are current ones . They are from a place called Board Tracker. Lots of graphs of how much I post, as well as my posts. I am not sure how they connected my name to Crankin, as all of my TE posts now show up as Crankin, even ones from when I was using my real name.
There's a couple of things on the Google list which are announcements of my son's promotions in the military that I put in the Boston Globe, as well as a couple of posts I wrote on the middle-lit list serve for English teachers about ten years ago. That's it. Definitely no one else with my name.

[Catrin]

I am the only person with my name that I've ever found on the internet. Even my last name is so unusual that an internet search just on that alone only brings up <30 people. No fictional characters, no porn stars (thankfully), just me. Which is why my Facebook page is the only place where I use my real name and that took some consideration.

I did check Board Tracker after Crankin's post and it has no record of my real name Thankfully, Catrin is simply a Welsh variation of Catherine and there are a lot of people out there using it.

Crankin - that is just spooky! I wonder how their system figured out that Crankin = <your real name>?

[Crankin]

Apparently, board tracker is an application that businesses use to see who is posting/buying stuff. When I clicked on "profile" on my board tracker page, it linked to Crankin's profile on TE (thankfully, I have nothing on there except my town), but the page is in my real name.
Susan? Does TE use this? Help!