My maiden name is shared with a teacher while my married name is shared with a woman who writes comic books. Add in my middle name with either last name and I’m the only one. My Mom was at least original there.
I have to assume I am the only one, probably ever. My first name is derived from Welsh and is an older spelling that is the less common one. Last name is relatively common German name. Middle name not super common, Confirmation name French (my parents were converted so farther up the line there weren’t any third names).
Google search on my first and last shows only me.
I share my name with a semi-famous writer of gay mystery novels.
And that’s all I’m going to say.
Well for my full name, not a chance in hell.
- My first name, while popular for big red dogs, not so much for children.
- My middle name, I have never heard of outside of my own family.
- My last name has reasonable representation among German settlers to the PA and MD regions, but is still far from common.
- I’m the fourth. Senior begat junior, who begat my father the third, who begat me.
To get my uncommon first name, impossibly rare middle name, uncommon last name, and suffix all together is of a mathematically impossible scale whose order dwarfs counting every hydrogen atom in the universe.
For common variation of first name and last name, eh there’s a chance (excluding my father).
WHAAT?
No, that’s not it.
The combination of firstname and lastname is unique within the U.K. but there are a couple of namesakes in America. Add in my middle name and there ain’t nobody else but me.
Is your name Ferris Bueller?
Umm, that was a response to interface2x on the last page:
Moving along . . . googling my name shows I share it with a hockey player from the 20’s, a rugby player from, well, now, and a ballroom dancer.
And why does www.myrealname.com go to a website devoted to the University of Minnesota’s trumpet section?
Oh, there’s a lot of me’s!
Apparently I am an artist, a photographer, a real estate agent, a geo-surveyor, an up and coming Australian Country Singer (I have a couple of albums), and I am a winemaker the brother of a huge comedian.
Get THIS:
Ok, so I have a relatively rare first name and an extremely rare last name. In my home town (pop. ~65,000) there is a dude who not only has my name, we share several pieces of personal information:
I grew up at 115 Temple Blvd, he grew up at 115 Temple Crescent.
The last four digits of my phone number were 0817, his were 0187.
My real first name is Chadron. My parents thought they made it up but we found out that there’s a town is N. Dakota with the same frickin’ stupid name! They have a university and some sports teams, I would love to get one of their school shirts.
My last name maybe a little unusual, and my first name is petty common, but every search I do of my name always only comes up with references to only me.
What’s really weird is that in very early days of the popular internet, while geeks were still dicking around with usenet and gopher and web browsers had only just been invented, I stumbled on an email address of <myfirstname>.<mylastname>@somecompany.com . I sent an email, but no response (I do not recall if I got a bounce or not).
It was a tech company I had heard have, although I don’t recall the name now. This other me either abandoned the internet (or died) or went really “stealth” and is careful not to use his real name, ever.
Never ever. My first name is fairly common - in Sweden. And my last name is a day of the week - in German.
I’ve met 2 people with my first name, and 3 with my last name (although there is a character in a famous book with my last name).
When I google my name it’s just me that comes up (web sites I’ve built or been mentioned on). Or it’s a German web site with someone with my first name who happens to be doing something on that certain day of the week.
I like having a unique name, but it’s a real bitch finding a personalized coffee mug! 
My first name isn’t that common, but it’s not unheard of: I will occasionally come across someone IRL who knows someone with my first name (either exact spelling or a variant). My last name isn’t that common either, but it will crop up in Germany and various places in South America. In general, when I bother listing myself in the phone book I’ll be the only one with my last name in there.
But the combination of first + last? Only me.
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If i ever want to feel insignificant, I google my name.
Firstname Lastname (no quotes) yields 8,490,000 results
with quotes I get 22,600.
I don’t appear on the first 10 pages with either of these searches
“Firsname MI Lastname” (w/ quotes) puts me about 5th (a paper I wrote) and 35th (my wedding webpage) out of 114.
“Firstname Middlename Lastname” (w/ " ) returns just my wedding page.
I was able to name firstname.lastname@gmail.com, which has become a source of neverending spam, firstnamelastname.com is taken but has very little in the way of a web presence, while firsnamemilastname.com is being used fully.
Besides my father, I also share the Firstname Lastname combination with
A founder of a major dept store
A couple of CEOs
a handful of professors
a few doctors of varying discipline
a group of people from my hometown
a man featured on “America’s Most Wanted”
An actor from the 50s
a produce man
a lansdcape designer
a politician
an artist
and so aon and so forth.
Well, there’s my mom, but we have different middle names.
Aside from that, I wasn’t aware of anyone else who had the same name, until I did a vanity search on Google some months ago and found a little girl with my name (but no relation that I know of); she writes poetry, which is posted on her school’s website.
Yep. He’s pretty well known. And I wish he wasn’t.
Hence my anonymity here.