# have you ever wiki searched your name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494 "2012-12-29T15:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/41 "2012-12-31T00:00:45Z")
Nothing for my name. My brother appears to be named after a Czech race car driver, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/42 "2012-12-31T00:25:33Z")
A few not famous but professionally published namesakes clutter up google. I don’t appear in google for as far as I checked until I got bored. Adding a couple more terms will show a couple mentions in locals papers. All work related. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/43 "2012-12-31T01:45:07Z")
Nothing under my name. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/44 "2012-12-31T18:42:29Z")
The “wrong” way to spell my last name is quite common. The way we spell it brings up several hits on Wikipedia, but the coolest are two major league sport players who were related to eachother. One was banned from sports for life, the other was drafted during WWII and killed over the skies of France. I also found to be sure the kids aren’t around when I google my wife’s maiden name. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/45 "2012-12-31T18:52:34Z")
I have never thought to do this - primarily because I can’t really think of anyone with my name…That said, if I exclude my middle name, then I score a hit: A U.S. Representative from Texas around the 40’s-50’s. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/46 "2012-12-31T20:16:52Z")
Hmmm…apparently I’m an English cricket player from the 1750’s. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/47 "2012-12-31T20:34:30Z")
Nothing on wiki or googlism, not even using my maiden name. I’m kinda disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/48 "2012-12-31T21:31:14Z")
Nothing for me from Googlism, but my father brings up this as the first entry: > [@](#): > > [father’s name] is one of the the most decent human beings I know It actually is a quote about my father. ---
**Author:** ![NoiseBomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/49beb7/32.png) [@NoiseBomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoiseBomb)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/49 "2013-01-01T06:18:09Z")
One of my small accomplishments in life, that I’m in a wiki “list” type article, thought I don’t and likely never will have an article all my own. Googlism has never heard of me. (This is going by my better-known name, not my legal name.) ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/50 "2013-01-01T06:42:09Z")
While my name brought up no exact matches, some of the ‘partial’ matches were the articles on White Trash, Pregnancy Over 50 and Antidepressants. Not sure how I feel about that lol. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/51 "2013-01-01T14:21:16Z")
I’m sure last time I entered my name on Wikipedia nothing came up, but now I’m a dead US general. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/52 "2013-01-01T15:47:22Z")
With my first and last names, wiki doesn’t know me and googlism doesn’t know me. Regular google results have changed a lot since the last time I did that. My first and last name still comes up related to my work, but now it’s a link to salary information for people from my agency instead of as a point of contact for the group I work in. Terrific–now people can be angry about my pay with real numbers to look at. If I include my middle name, I still find the work reference but I also discover that lots of people have the same middle name spelled “wrong” so that’s nice. If I google just my uncommon first name, I have been pushed off the internet by a Survivor/American Ninja Warrior contestant and an Icelandic singer-songwriter. If I wiki my first name, I get a redirect to a page about a mythological Old Norse giant and king of Finland. Working with my super common last name, I get 300m hits in google, and a bunch of possibilties in wiki depending on the possible trade, person, or company. That was a nice way to spend my morning. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/53 "2013-01-01T18:25:00Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I’m sure last time I entered my name on Wikipedia nothing came up, but now I’m a dead US general. 🙂 Illustrating, quite compactly, how fast promotions are in wartime, and why. Clarke, in a 1975 novel, made a passing mention that the first entry on everyone’s universal-news-info watch list was their own name. What I find more interesting than third-party mentions of my name are my own zombies, shambling around the back reaches of the net. More than once I’ve looked something up, found an interesting and informative post on the topic… and then realized that I wrote it, anywhere between five and twenty-odd years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/54 "2013-01-01T20:46:17Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > There is nobody with my name listed in Wikipedia > [@Colibri](#): > > My first name + last name is globally unique This is me as well. I guess we’re just wewwy, wewwy special snowflakes… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Willcross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Willcross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willcross)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/55 "2013-01-01T22:21:56Z")
Once late at night, I was sitting alone on the couch watching TV and saw a commercial. It was a man walking in the snow. Some text came up saying something like “I was the first person with diabetes to walk across Antarctica, I am…” At this point I interjected in a dramatic voice “Will Cross” (my own name). Much to my surprise the mans name ACTUALLY WAS Will Cross!! It was the most surreal thing to ever happen to me and I never saw that commercial again. I immediately wiki’d the name and sure enough… It’s unusual that the guy had the same name as me, but for me to jokingly fill in my name after his sentence, then have it come true was so weird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494.md?page=2)