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My name is common in Wisconsin and Scandinavia, but since I don't live there I've never even met another person with my same first name or anyone outside my family with the exact same surname.

I looked up my last name online and found it's Coat of Arms.

Apparently I'm Scottish.


Something of interest. Due to the different spellings of many different names, there could be someone with a different last name than you, but still is a descendant of the same family.

But there must be thousands of us now.


Oh by the way, my last name is the 11,195th most common.

@OP you punched a bloody monitor?!
you monster!

I have a fairly unique last name. That said, we managed to move in across the street from a family with the exact same name, who are completely unrelated.

Also, at my work, I am one of five people called Dan. It's a fair bet that there will be at least two of us on shift at any given moment. Fun times.

My name is uncommon but my surname crops up a bit.

If I try to use my surname it's generally taken due to having Witch in it.

Also typing in my 1st and last names on google, I'm the 6th and 7th result.

Devastator wrote:@OP you punched a bloody monitor?!
you monster!

I hurt my hand, and didn't leave lasting damage (hopefully )

Interesting according to 192.com (British site, based around Electoral data, birth, marriage and telephone book entries) I'm the only combination of my first and last name in the UK.

My middle brother is equally blessed, while my youngest shares his with 34 others.

I know. My name is rather rare, but to make my "professional" email account, I had to put my middle initial in.

I have to go 4 or 5 pages deep to get another result on Google for my name that isn't me. Going back about nine pages, there's maybe 6-10 links which aren't me, and all but about two of those are only a last or first name match; not both.

I just made my "Pro" Email Address. It's awesome how no-one has taken it yet.

First page of google, none is me

Apparently, there are around 12 people in the USA with my exact combination of names. I intend to fly over there and start a club comprising of us.

I share a name with...

A marketing and advertising guy in San Francisco.
A realtor in St. Louis.
A handy-man in Wheaton, IL.

lets see... what else...

Oh yes... a dentist in Cheswick, PA.


that's pretty pathetic... I'm like... an over-achiever in comparison to most (dentist excepted).

I share a name with a sculptor from the uk according to google.... thats it though.

Well, I googled my name, and there are maybe 2 or 3 other people with it. Didn't find myself though, just some random Facebook pages. Most were people who had friended the same guy.

Also there was a gay porn star with a name very similar to my own. Weird.

I just spent 20 minutes looking up my name, and found out something:

There is another. I have friended one of about 100 people on facebook with my last name.

We must create a Felsenthal convention in Felsenthal national park in Felsenthal, Arkansas.

There are quite a few of me on various social networks, I'm being a casket bearer in Nebraska, I run track & field at a high school, own a house for sale in St. Louis, am a math fair winner, one that's actually me on page two of the search, am a soccer player, and run a church. That's mostly what's on the first two pages of the Google search.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Interesting according to 192.com (British site, based around Electoral data, birth, marriage and telephone book entries) I'm the only combination of my first and last name in the UK.

My middle brother is equally blessed, while my youngest shares his with 34 others.

Are they allowed to use that information? I've just found my whole close family and who we live with just at the press of a button (although the information is outdated). That is hellishly scary, and I can only imagine what people can find out just from that.

My name ends in the suffix IV, so there have been at least 3 other people with my name; though only one of them is still alive.

Despite having a rather err...Scottish sounding forename, I don't know of many people who go by it, least other than overhearing it every now and then. Anyhow I go by my forename, mother maiden name, and sirname, which other than being an anagram for a pornographic mag here as was pointed out to me one night a while back by a drunken mate, I doubt there's another person that goes by my name (even without the maiden name crap)...as they'd have already suffered an unfortunate accidently involving a spatula. Meh, I haven't had the problem of having a friend with the same forename as me, or found anyone on the web either, so it doesn't really bother me, and even if it there was its just a little thing, who's to care. Meh, spam that person to hell with name twins jokes if you want, or just shrug your shoulder and smirk a little before sticking a random number at the end of your email like everyone else if its so bothersome. ^^

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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Interesting according to 192.com (British site, based around Electoral data, birth, marriage and telephone book entries) I'm the only combination of my first and last name in the UK.

My middle brother is equally blessed, while my youngest shares his with 34 others.

Are they allowed to use that information? I've just found my whole close family and who we live with just at the press of a button (although the information is outdated). That is hellishly scary, and I can only imagine what people can find out just from that.

I must admit I raised an eyebrow, it's listing folks living with me, who never have, but where school friends, that was a little worrying.

there are 10 people in the USA with my last name...

there is currently 1 other person with my first AND last name in the US... he lives in florida and is 63.... Never met him.

oh yea... and I'm that guy with first.last@gmail with my name

My name's Ryan Magee.


Hi.

There are quite a lot of us - as I found when I decided to add them all on facebook. Most Ryan Magees seemed to find it charming and irreverent, which was what I was going for.

@Fitzz/Orlanth - Michael Jackson. Common name for a famous dude to have. That's my guess.

@Dogma - Have you ever considered adding ': A New Hope' to the end of your name?

This is what middle names (or just initials) are for.

So something like Firstname.X.Lastname@domain.com

If you middle name is Xavier or something. With more common names, it might be a bit tougher though and you may need to resort to dreaded numbers.

I did a google search, and two of the top 3 results are me. Of course, a few days ago I got a random facebook message from some guy up in Wisconsin who shared my name....I was kinda freaked out.

I think my name is much more common in Germany than stateside though.

Albatross wrote:
@Dogma - Have you ever considered adding ': A New Hope' to the end of your name?

It has a nice ring to it, in a few years my name would hopefully be:

Dr. XXXXX X XXXXXXXX IV, A New Hope, PhD

Albatross wrote:My name's Ryan Magee.


Hi.

There are quite a lot of us - as I found when I decided to add them all on facebook. Most Ryan Magees seemed to find it charming and irreverent, which was what I was going for.

@Fitzz/Orlanth - Michael Jackson. Common name for a famous dude to have. That's my guess.

@Dogma - Have you ever considered adding ': A New Hope' to the end of your name?

I only found one guy on Facebook with the same name as me. He about my age too.

After reading that though, I think I will friend him.

FITZZ wrote: Sounds like you need to relax...

I myself share the name of a famous singer,so I've dealt with comments my whole life...no big deal...I simply go by my middle name.

Office Space? Do we celebrate your entire catalog?

I've got a reasonably common name, and it's attached to someone famous too.
(Second name Kennedy, is the clue)

I could go by the Irish version- Seán Ó Cinnéide, but I've always thought that was unbearably pretentious for people not from Gaelteacht regions.

Googled my name and surname. Only myself and one guy who rents chambers by the hour

So i don't have a problem with people having the same name like me. What i do
find anying is that everyone spells it wrong! and my name only excists out of three letters.

And English speaking people always like to pronounce my name like Seal. I'm not a Seal, for crying out loud!