Deaf Smith?
I recently got an e-mail from a gentleman in Dublin who has my exact first and last names. We’ve developed a very cordial online correspondence, and we each have a place to stay should one visit the other’s country.
Interestingly enough, the (late) head of the Highway Safety Foundation, the Mansfield, Ohio, outfit responsible for a spate of driver’s education films in the '50s and '60s with names like Signal 30 (police lingo for a traffic fatality), Wheels of Tragedy, and Mechanized Death shared my first and last name. His movies combined preachy, melodramatic narration with bloody footage of real dead bodies—and scared the daylights out of millions of baby boomers.
Googling found the following hits on my name:
[ul]0 full first, last, middle combination; even I am not there![/ul][ul]19 for first and last. One chick is a college cross country “star,” another plays softball and one chick won $100 on Powerball. 10 of the 19 were me.[/ul] [ul]31800 for my first name[/ul][ul]88,300,000 for my last name, including spellings; but my last name is also a first name.[/ul]
My mother and aunt who have names that begin with “Z” and “X,” respectivelly, have over 80,000 hits each. Their names are apperently pretty common in Spanish speaking countries. No one in America seems to able to pronounce them, though.
In college my friends decided to be silly and IM somewhat suggestive comments, har har. They forgot my screen name and used my first name instead. Turned out they were talking to a 10 year old girl in California. I only hope she was not scarred. They at least had the grace to feel bad until we went out to dinner. Good lesson for using parental blocks.
Never even knew of anyone with the same first name until I was 18 (when I moved into Wales). Had a few problems in my final year at uni when another student who had most of the same name as me (I have an extra made up bit before the Jones) hadn’t finished her assignments and I was getting the warning letters.
I’ve never actually known or associated with someone with the same first name - I think it would be wierd at this stage.
Anyway to answer the OP - there’s someone else in North Wales, she works for the government so is gradually pushing me down the google list but I still make it onto the front page. There’s no reason to contact her - our last name isn’t uncommon and probably an ammalgamation on her part too and (thanks to Celtic trendyness) our first name is getting more common as well.
However, after September, my (Welsh spelling)Firstname Marriedname combo will make me unique !
[hijack] Actually babe we get married in 17 days (civil) and it’s then that your name changes 
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[hijack continued] Hey “Man I Love” this is France ! I get to pick and choose when I’m me and when I’m yours 
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Only ten people on the planet have my last name and the only people who bear my full name are in their graves in Hungary.
Ha ha ha!! Good story.
When I went to Vancouver Island last summer I saw signs all over to vote for someone that had the same name as my friend. When I got back I showed him a picture and he said “That would explain why I got this thank-you E-mail from the NDPs!”
I get zero hits with my full name, 954 with my full first and last names, and 778 with the short form of my first name and my last name. My first name is the same as that of one of the other posters in this thread, but watch out for him.
My namesake professions:
Second Assistant Director for many science fiction films and TV series.
Evangelical preacher.
CPA.
A gentleman who is very proud of his family, and keeps everyone up to date by posting pics on his website.
One who calls himself the “Minister of Defensiveness.” Don’t know if it’s the same as above.
A major investor in a business satellite service.
A researcher doing “foam drainage” experiments.
…and many more.
makes me feel like such a loser, when I see what my namesakes have done.
There are a few folks scattered around the country with my same first and last name (I have a very common first name). What is freaky and has become a fun tale is the fact that one of my dopplegangers lives in the same small suburb I live in, AND (as we both discovered accidentally) we have the same doctor. The main differences are that he’s about three years older than I am, and white.
The joke when I call to schedule an appointment is “Hi, this is Asimovian with date-of-birth blah blah blah” without skipping a beat. The office staff finds it hilarious, but only because we were both pretty good-natured about the fact that, in the early days, our charts were often accidentally pulled when the other guy showed up.
I get zero hits for first, middle, last.
330 hits for first and last.
37,100,000 for first name only
84,500 for last name only.
The main person I see when I type first and last is a poet.
There’s a whole bunch of me about. Google gives ~15,000 hits on “first last”. Couldn’t even find my own web site in all the clutter.
At least one cop in town, though he may have moved. I was the only me listed in the local phone book, so I’d get calls for the other 3-4 in town that weren’t listed. Finally had the listing changed to my dog’s name, as phone co. charged NOT to list your name, but you could have it listed under anyone in the household’s name for free. Great fun to tell telemarketers “No, I’m sorry, Mr. Narrowgauge is busy at the moment, but when he is done licking his testicles, I’ll have him call you back.”
First+Last - there are…many of us. Both halves are common as dirt. A model/actress was using my name to avoid confusion for a while.
All 3 - never encountered one IRL, and Google doesn’t turn any up.
A friend of mine discovered that if he enters the name of his wife, and hits I’m Feeling Lucky, he gets taken to an “Independent Escort for gentlemen living in or visiting the
North West of England”.
A search of my full “first middle last” names gets 0 hits. (likewise with middle initial)
A search of “first last” names get 12,500 hits and they seemingly all have to do with a movie charector. 5 years ago they released a major motion picture with one of the main charectors having my same name. (not a common last name either) Good luck to anyone trying to find me on the web.
… which reminds me… I still have never watched that movie to see if I’m any good. <wandering off to Net Flix to add it to my que…>
I was at my uncle’s wedding a couple years ago and one of my cousins introduced me to her best friend who had the same first and last name as me! I have met people with similar last name but different spelling…this was the first time I had ever met someone with the exact last name spelling as mine. We are not related that we know of.
On a similar note, my dad’s 2nd (my stepmom) and 3rd wives both had the same first and middle name!!! My stepmom didn’t change her last name right away after they were divorced so they both had the same first, middle and last names for a couple years.
I share my name with a relatively famous film director, and also a scientist of some note. I am therefore assured of being virtually Google-proof, as anyone looking for information on me specifically will be inundated by information on these two other fellows.
Googling “Firstname Lastname” gives exactly one result from an extremely outdated section of my school’s website (how it’s managed to remain online for 6 years, I don’t know). I’m fairly sure I’m the only person with my full name. My first name is extremely rare, especially in the US, and it’s not even the standard spelling.
Yep - a few years ago I typed my name into the ICQ search engine and it turned up one girl with the same name as me. She was a Quebecer (Francophone) and my French isn’t all that great, so conversing with her could be kind of choppy. But she preferred to talk to me in English anyway because she said it was good practice.