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 know there are others. I’ve recently received email for a person with the same name as me (in Australia!).
I’ve sort of met one once too. We were on the same international flight and ended up being assigned the same seat since someone probably assumed we were the same person (this was the 90’s, I doubt that would happen now).
I don’t have a common name, but I did actually find someone with my first and last name up in Wisconsin. (Or, I should say, somebody who was looking for him found me instead.) If you take the Polish spelling of my name, there’s also at least one other in Poland, who is a painter.
My first name is common yet my last name is quite rare. However, there is a semi-successful author with my full name so anyone googling me would get return hits for him. I’m not putting a value on that, btw.
In buying/selling, applying for loans, etc., I’ve learned there are more than two of us.
My lastname is rather rare; most people with it are probably very distant relations of mine. And my firstname used to be quite rare (had a few years of popularity ~20 years ago, though). However, about a decade ago, google found someone with the same firstname + middlename + lastname as me. Who was a web developer, ~20 years younger than me. So people would contact me asking when I’d changed careers.
I never did contact the guy; we’re probably related, though.
My first name isn’t too unusual, but my last name is, at least in the US. Even in Germany, where the name is from, it’s relatively uncommon. I think there might be one person with my name in Germany, but I’m fairly certain I’m the only one in the US.
My sister and brother-in-law both have unremarkable first names, and a slightly-uncommon variant of a fairly common last name. But there’s another married couple in the metropolitan area that matches both of them. They found out because they also drive the same model of car, and get it serviced at the same place, which led to a mix-up.
I have a fairly rare last name, though my first name was the most popular name for baby boys throughout the 1960s (the era in which I was born).
Not only do I know that there is someone who shares both my first name and last name (and my middle initial, as well!), but he lives within 10 miles of me.
I’ve never met him, but I first “encountered” him 26 years ago, when I got a phone call from a woman who was looking for “me” – or, at least, a man with my first name and last name, and who had formerly lived in the city where I had lived a few years earlier. As I tried to convince her that she was, indeed, speaking to the person with that name, she said, “No, I do think I have the wrong person – you sound much too nice to be my ex-husband.” :eek: I then discovered that my “name twin” lived a few miles away.
He’s still in the area, and I now know for certain that he is because, during the local elections a few weeks ago, I saw “my” name on a campaign sign in a nearby suburb. My name twin is on the village council in that suburb.
Yes, hundreds across the United States, more in Europe I’m sure.
My maiden name, though…I think I was the only person in the world with that combination. Certainly the only one who comes up on a Google search.
I only know of one, she is on the other side of the state. Husband’s last name is somewhat unusual and they did not stray too far away.
Approximately a zillion.
First, last and middle – at least two distant relatives/cousins and my late uncle. And considering the last name is somewhat unusual it has caused some confusion now and then.
My grandmother had a genealogy done of our family several years ago. It turns out I am the 13th or 14th with my name in the line in America. And my parents had no idea when they named me.
Nobody. I’m unique. There are, at most, a couple dozen people with my last name, and of all of us, I’m the only one with my first name.
We recently discovered that my brother’s name is no longer unique. His ex-wife, who kept our last name, adopted a kid who already shared a first name with my brother.
According to this site, I am the only one with my name in the USA. I suspect that is true for the world also. I imagine that it makes background checks pretty easy.
There’s a guy on Facebook that I knew from my BBS days and he friended me. I saw he had another friend from the area who has my same name. From her profile pic I can tell she is very sexy and probably pretty fun. I like to think he was super excited to find “me” and friend “me” on Facebook, but it turns out it was just some hot chick that had the same name.
There’s also another woman out there with my name, but not in Ohio. She writes classy porn books 
Usually two or three in any given large-ish urban area have my name. Of course, it was a bit disconcerting to see my name as the number one pick in the NFL draft a number of years ago.
The best story, though, is how my mom got made at my dad, moved out and got a divorce. Within months, my dad married a woman with the same first name, who then moved into his house. Curiously, incidents of confusion were not very frequent.
There’s a dentist in the Czech Republic who shares my name. That’s it from what I can tell.
According to mcgato’s site (see post #34), I share my first/last name with 681 others in the USA. Looking at Google searches, there is also an English SF writer, CEO of a charity management group in Canada, and AV Campus Tech at Penn State, and I’m apparently marrying Samantha Fitzgerald this June (which comes as news to me…).
Yes. He is a novelist. He writes gay mystery novels.
My last name is very rare, at least with the exact spelling. There are perhaps a few of dozen people globally with the name (as far as I know, all in the US, the name by that spelling having died out in Switzerland where it originated).
My first name/last name combination is as far as I know globally unique. My late father and grandfather shared it, but they had different middle names.
Oddly, considering how rare the surname is, some of my brothers and nephews share their first name/last name with others. My youngest brother has two unrelated doppelgangers.