# Is there anyone else with your same name (First Last)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697 "2017-04-18T12:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/121 "2017-04-22T12:43:54Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > There’s a professional hockey player with my name, whose birthdate is within a year of mine. He’s a total nobody – he washed out of the NHL years ago. I share a first and last name with a hockey player who DIDN’T wash out of the NHL!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/122 "2017-04-23T14:16:45Z")
Plugging in first and last only, I get a large number of hits. Adding the middle name appears to narrow it down to just me. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/123 "2017-04-24T03:13:08Z")
There are five in the U.S., according to Zabasearch. We all have different middle names, however. Personally, I have never met anyone outside of my immediate family (mom, dad, uncle, brother, grandmother, two sisters) with my last name. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/124 "2017-04-24T03:40:40Z")
same name yes, but if you include the same gender then no ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/125 "2017-04-24T05:58:01Z")
Spaniard here. As such, I have two surnames (one comes from my father and the other from my mother). My maternal surname is unique: ours is the only family in the country that has it. As such, the combination of my name + my two surnames is unique: I am the only person alive with that particular combination (that I know of). Now, it happens that my given name is tremendously common, and my paternal surname, while not very common, is not exceptionally rare either. It so happens that there is a colleague at my office who is from Barcelona and has my name and a paternal surname that differs from mine in only one letter. Usually, outside of Spain, people won’t bother dealing with our full names, and will focus only in name+paternal surname to identify us. I have lost count of how many memos, letters and communications I have received that were intended for my colleague, and vice versa 🙂 It is quite an interesting situation: on the one hand, my full name is unique. On the other, people dealing with us at work often think that I am my colleague (or that he is me). ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/126 "2017-04-24T22:26:46Z")
I encountered someone with the same nickname and surname as me, but my given name differs. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/127 "2017-04-24T23:27:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My father had a childhood friend in east Texas in the 1930s by the name of Shagnasty Flint. That was his real name. I’m assuming Shagnasty is your _nom de Dope_, but I’m wondering where you came up with it. My best friend gave me the nickname Shagnasty for no particular reason when we were in junior high (also in the Northwestern Louisiana/East Texas area). It sounds dirty but it really isn’t. It is a very old Southern word from that region and I know two people that have it as their given name as well. I just picked it here because it is distinctive and sounds funny. My real name is even more distinctive and eccentric. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/128 "2017-04-25T00:42:32Z")
As far as I know there is nobody on earth with the same first/last name combo as me. Facebook finds one person who comes close: He has the same last name and a very similar first name. But that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/129 "2017-04-25T16:53:46Z")
My family is just below the top 1,000 surnames in the US. I have a very common first name, so there are a number of people with that combination. My mother seems to be a one-off as she has a rare first name. My sister’s married name ranks below the top 53,000 last names and with a rare first name, she in probably the one person ever to have that combination. A friend from high school has an extremely uncommon name. It wasn’t found on the records. Although he has a fairly common first name, it wasn’t hard to google him. My wife kept her Taiwanese last name, although she uses my last name for her facebook account. She’s the only person with that combination. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/130 "2017-04-25T19:14:56Z")
My last name is not particularly common; it’s an uncommon spelling of a common name. When I was in college there was a guy there with the same first/last as me. I found out about him when I got a phone call meant for him, and an application for a student loan with a different SSN on it. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/131 "2017-04-25T22:19:09Z")
There are apparently 146 of me in the USA, and a Google search of the name shows I’m represented among Canadians as well. When I add my middle name, however, all the references are actually ME! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/132 "2017-04-25T23:29:40Z")
None so far as I know and a Google search reveals. There have been three in the US in the past: my grandfather, his father, and a possibly related man who lived in Chicago and worked for a newspaper there (I know something of his ancestry, and the connection to my family if it exists happened in the old country). None of them had my middle name, or I might be a II or III. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/133 "2017-04-26T01:30:23Z")
I’ve met exactly one person with my name, though there are probably hundreds in Ireland and the various countries the Irish emigrated to. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/134 "2017-04-26T02:41:18Z")
Mine is not common enough that I have met anyone with the exact first and last but common enough that it’s hard to find me on goggle. There’s a doctor, an author, and a published professor who take up most of the first dozen or so pages. None of them I’ve heard of but they and others are more prominent than me. You have to throw a few more words in your search to find me. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/135 "2017-04-26T07:16:27Z")
My middle name last name combination is common. Someone in grad school had that combination. When I worked at Microsoft, I was always getting my twin’s email. Again first name last name I have never found another male with the combination, but there are plenty of females with the same first last combo. Go figure ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/136 "2017-04-26T07:38:05Z")
With my maiden name, there were 5 other women with my name. With my married name, that has leaped and bounded up to 37 other women with my name. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/137 "2017-04-26T22:34:58Z")
Nope. I have a less-common variant for a first name and a last name with a different background. I am surprised to see someone with the more-common variant plus my last name from the 1940 census. Throw in my middle name and Confirmation name and I’m pretty sure there’s no other me. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/138 "2017-04-28T14:19:29Z")
I’m quite certain I’m the only person in recorded history with my first/last name combo 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/139 "2017-04-28T14:21:34Z")
Currently, a dentist in Indiana, a tech startup CEO, and a guy who lives in Oklahoma and who looks enough like me that people in Vegas assumed I’d moved when I applied for players cards. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697/140 "2017-04-28T14:25:45Z")
I am aware of three others with my same name combination (a rare one) in the United States. Interestingly, we share similar life and professional stories - Three of us are former sea service, all of us are technically-oriented, three of us are or have been consultants, three of us have worked in IT, three of us have worked with electricity (other than IT). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-with-your-same-name-first-last/784697.md?page=8)