I guess it’s impossible to know for sure, but through my genealogy research, I have never found anyone else alive or dead with the same combination of first and last name as myself. If you google my name, I am the only one that pops up.
How about you?
My father and grandfather (I am III) if that counts. No one else that I know of.
I’m special.
Regards,
Shodan III
Yes, several. Both my first and last names are moderately common.
At last count, there were 6 in Iowa alone. One of those happened to be a child molester, which made for a couple interesting conversations, given he lived only 50 miles away from me.
At least 8 within 30 miles, not counting my father and paternal grandfather, both deceased. My name is quite common.
Very specifically no: my firstname was chosen to ensure that it wouldn’t happen. Two previous proposals were rejected on exactly those grounds: one would have matched my father’s sister, the other an already-deceased g-g-g-g-great aunt. As fas as anybody in the family knows, my combination of first and lastname is unique in history. There may be a distant cousin somewhere in the Americas, but if so, she doesn’t appear in Google.
Yes. In fact we bumped into each other on Facebook, and he friended me. It has led to a few funny misunderstandings.
You know how depressing it is to be bored, google yourself, & only find other people?
Not in real life, but someone (a teen-age kid in the city I live in) once sent me a facebook message that just said ‘Hey, we have the same name!’ My last name is not particularly common (ranking 1300-1400 in the US, according to one site).
I have a rare German last name and the alternate version of common first name (Jon) but there according to Facebbok searches there are multiple people with the same combo which is amazing to me.
About 20 years, I had a phone call from the Kansas City police about my warrants. Turns out that in Topeka there is a Jonathan L “Moldmonkey” while I am Jonathan R Moldmonkey. With my surname it blows my mind that there are two names that close in the same small city.
I’ve done searches for myself, so I know there are plenty of “me” out there. One’s even had a book published. Another id dead, although I don’t think that has freaked out anyone knowing me who’s looked me up.
In Texas, if someone dies, evertbody else in the state with the same name can be provisionally removed from the registered voter list until they reconfirm to the election regisrar that they are still alive. That’s how it was explained when it happened to me, so I guess there must have been someone with the same name in Texas.
A guy in the same city. I got his packet at college registration. Took it back, found him arguing with the Packet Girl. I changed banks because they gave him one of my deposits. I got the money back, but one wishes to avoid that sort of thing.
I work with someone who has the same first name and last name as I do; each of us is always getting e-mails meant for the other guy.
My two names are moderately uncommon, the surname being Irish and the christian name a variant; still, I sourly assumed there would be a hundred or three. I was delighted to find there was only one other, and he was in one of the Canadas around 1760. Perhaps over from dear old Erin.
Fortunately my middle name is sufficiently rare enough to distinguish us in the afterlife.
Lots for someone with as rare-ish a last name as mine. One was an uncle. The rest are totally unknown to me.
Junior and senior high school, there was a fellow had the same name as me; we were in the same homeroom. He was always getting called down to the principal for cutting class, so we would both go down and when the principal saw us, he would hook a thumb at me and say, You, outta here, then to my doppelgänger, You, office. He was an OK dude (the principal).
Now, I have the same name–first and last–of a certain TV show host.
Sure. There’s another guy with the same first and last name that shows up on ego searches.
No, I am unique although there is a gentleman in the Chicago area whose last name starts with the Cz instead of an S.
Outside of family (which isn’t that large) I’ve only found, using internet and phone book searches, about 5 people with my last name. (An alternate spelling is a bit more common. Even seen TV characters with it.) So I’m fairly certain my firstname lastname is unique in all the world.