This should be good. I’ve been waiting for this thread since I first started lurkng. And that’s a looong time ago!
Pin back your ears for this one
My grandfather’s mother was called Eileen
My grandfather’s sister was called Eibhlín, after her mother (Irish for Eileen)
My father’s mother - who married in, I suppose you could say - was coincidentally also called Eibhlín.
I have an auntie, my father’s sister who was named after her mother and grandmother and is called Eileen. (They must have gone all Anglo by then)
My mother is called Eileen. What are the odds?
My father’s brother married a woman called Eileen. Vague scary notions of some kind of rarified Oedipus complex must have been settling in by now.
They have a daughter, my cousin, who they called Eileen. Good, wholesome family name.
They also have a son, who married a foreign lady called Ilene. We forgive the spelling, because she is foreign. But it’s still a bit freaky, to me.
My brother married a woman called Eibhlin (see above, Irish names obvioulsy made a comeback in the early seventies)
My brother and his wife have a baby called Eil (they made it up, but you wouldn’t have to be a genius to know where it came from)
My sister is called Catherine. Yay. Individuality reigns
At family gatherings in my father’s side of the tree, if you’re not called Eileen/Eibhlín they all look at you funny.
Cathy and I often have a laugh and wish one of us got called Eileen. 
So to answer the OP, yep; through the powers of Google, I know there are women who share my name, but in my family if you aren’t called Eileen/Eiblín MySurname, you are in the minority!!!
There is another me in a German-speaking country!
I found a lot about my Ohio twin on the internet. It’s kind of creepy how much information there is about her. From hardly visiting ay of the pages, I know her job, who she’s marrying, when, where, etc.
Yep. Kind of.
My last name isn’t Romanov, and my first name isn’t Anna.
I’ve a sixth cousin once or twice removed who shares my first and last names, both of which are rather uncommon. Well, the first isn’t rare, but the last sure is. Our middle names are different. When I google my first and last name together, 98% of the hits are on him. He runs a lot of marathons and other races, and the results constantly get listed on the web.
I’ve never met him, but I’ve met his dad a number of times; he’s got a Ph.D in Endocrinology.
All 3 of my names are quite unusual (or have unusual spelling variants), so I have rarely known anyone with any of them let alone all 3 (except for my dad; I’m Jr.).
Judging by a quick google search, tons of 'em.
I see…
Two real estate salesmen
A baptist preacher and author
A track and field athelete
A doctor
Some guy who took a picture of the fox theater
A drug rep
and many more…
It’s kind of weird. One was a review of a book written by another me, and they were ripping him to shreds. Very, very strange. 
My first and last names are quite uncommon, so much so that I’ve never met any person in real life who had either one (except for family members who shared the last name, of course.)
Then my grandma showed me a picture in one of the Indianapolis newspapers that showed a mom taking her kid trick-or-treating for Halloween, and the woman had my first and last name, but the last name was hyphenated with some other last name. This happened about 25 years ago, but I’ve always been curious about that unfortunate individual walking around with my name.
(My names are unusual, and many people assume that I’m from another country when they hear my names. I’ve Googled it, and Google thinks I’m unique.)
I have an extremely uncommon last name, but there is a football player in the UK who dominates the search results when you Google my nickname (Jenny) + surname (however, I take some kind of weird Google pride in the fact that the first two results are me!). 
Also, when I was interviewing at companies before taking my current job, one of the HR people somewhere else told me that their company had recently made an offer to another woman with my name (Jennifer) + surname – and she happened to be from the same state as me, too! She either didn’t have a middle name or didn’t put it on her paperwork, so I don’t know if it was an exact match.
My father’s family is Irish, too, and there are tons of Eileens on that side. In their case, though, they’re all related somehow: apparently the tradition was to name your children after an aunt/uncle/sibling. The tradition died off at some point, because I don’t think there are any Eileens under 50, but there are so many that we have to refer to them by more than one name (e.g., Eileen Marie).
There are dozens of “me” in Germany. (This is not surprising; when my Mom married my Dad, her German immigrant boss remarked that “B~s in Festvalia iss like bebbles on de peach.” and Thomas is still a fairly common first name, there.) There are a couple of “me” in the U.S. and a few more if I use Tom instead of Thomas. If I use my full name, I am pretty much guaranteed a unique name, since my middle name is an Irish family name taken from my Mom’s side of the family.
I found someone on the Internet (of course) who uses the same name as me; he’s very much into model tank building. When a military tank was on campus, I took a picture and e-mailed it to him, but got no reply. He may have thought it was spam.
Only around thirty people (all relatives) have my last name since it’s the result of an Ellis Island misspelling and the original name (or at least, what I think is the original name) is also uncommon–it comes up a few times on Google but I don’t know if it’s referencing actual people or places or what since all the sites are in Czech. There is probably nobody in the English speaking world with that name. So no, I don’t know anyone with my full name, since the only people who could would be relatives and we don’t “steal” names in my family.
I’m the only me, and as far back as I’ve searched, I’m the only me there ever was.
With my maiden name, no.
Married name: first and last, yes. And she writes Lesbian Sci-fi fiction.
YAY!
I should buy a copy of it and say it’s mine and give it to my evangelical SIL. (Camcorder at the ready!)
There are a few of me in Germany, as well as an engineering student and a marathon runner (maybe the same person) in California.
But for one letter in the first name, I also share the name of Brian de Palma’s longtime second unit director.
I’ve got an uncommon last name, and I’ve only personally met one person who spelled their name the same way. However, there are pages of references on google to people who share the same first and last name. Not rare enough to email them.
I haven’t found anyone in Japan with my last name. I’ve got a very common first name so there’s a number of us around. Still, it’s weird to hear my name used so much back in the States.
Just before I moved to Tokyo I went on a short vacation and came back to find that someone with my same first and last name had been running around purchasing things without paying for them. Since I was the only one with that name listed in the phone book, there were a number of messages from collection agencies asking for repayment. I let them know they had the wrong person, but some of them still treated me like I was lying to them. :rolleyes: One woman pretty much freaked when I told her I was moving **long term ** to Japan
I ran across my first and (maiden) last name in an Entertainment Weekly, once. She’s the lead singer of a pretty popular indie band. That freaked me right out, especially since I’d never met anyone with my last name that I wasn’t related to before (and who didn’t live in Hungary…).
When I Googled my name, I discovered I have an older copy of myself working as a biology teacher somewhere in the States. Which is really creepy because I have aspirations of teaching bio… and moving to the States…
I never contacted her, although I’d like to. I just worry about seeming too stalkerish.
I’ve got a somewhat rare first name and an extremely rare last name; I’d never heard of another person with the combination before, but then just a few months ago I Googled myself out of curiosity and found TWO. One had written an article about the special effects in Sky King and the World of Tomorrow, and one is working for some kind of advertising magazine. Or maybe he was interviewed in the advertising magazine. It had something to do with advertising.
I think it’s pretty good odds that I’m the only person in the world with my full name. My last name is actually a misspelling of a fairly uncommon Swiss name. Two other apparently unrelated families in the US have the same (misspelled) last name, but as far as I can tell no one in Switzerland does. No one in the two US families shares my first name. (Oddly enough, a number of them coincidentally do share names with other members of my family.)
There are two I found on the Internet some time ago. I’m sure there are probably at least 100 out there.
One is a 40-year-old male truck driver from Pennsylvania.
The other is a young female swimmer in Florida.
I have never contacted either one. What would I say?