Well besides my father and grandfather there are probably a few hundred in the US alone. They are both passed now so at least I don’t have to fuss with the Sr., Jr. and III anymore.
Because of being the third I have been getting invites to join AARP since I was 18. I also sent to a college I attended for a copy of my transcripts once. I got those of my father who had attended 30 years previously instead. I gave them my student number and everything. Yet somehow they managed to find junior instead of the third.
Very, very common (There’s a lot of wallabies out her!).
At last count off the top of my head - one professional footballer playing in the big leagues, another who played NRL in the 1970’s - he had a couple of kids who went on to successful careers as well (playing now - my mates often say ‘Your boys are doing well’ when discussing the rugby), one stand-up comedian, a murder victim from the 1990s…
I just googled ‘My Name - Australia’ and was amused to see how often I show up - CEO of drug company, children’s author, Chief Government Pharmacist, stuntman, winemaker (actually, I know that winery, and always ask for ‘Family Discount’ when I go there:p). To be honest - I’m probably a bit of a disappointment…
There was a time when I worked in a fairly specialised branch of IT, and there was another Wallaby working for another company in the same area. The IT vendors and consultants knew us both and we occasionally got e-mails etc for the wrong person.
Published poet, hockey player for the Carolina Hurricanes; have not met either of them. Another Georgetown student and a friend of a Georgetown acquaintance; have met them. Found some ten or twelve of me in the Columbus, OH phone book back in 1987 (long story).
The fun coincidence is not mine; back in 2010 I had the opportunity to meet several of my Swedish cousins (third and fourth and the like) and it turns out that one of the younger generation shares my grandfather’s first and last names although his parents had never met my granddad nor really even knew he existed. Granddad’s name was relatively common for his time but was certainly out of fashion by the time this younger cousin came into the world. They are the only two who come up in Google searches.
So many that I literally cannot scroll to the end of us on Facebook’s search. It just keeps adding more and more…
Including one with 50 of my Friends in common, but I have no idea who she is. Huh. That’s weird.
Both my maiden name and my now married name are extremely common. My first married name was unique, not only in the US, but the world, as far as I was ever able to tell. Everyone with that last name was an in-law of mine.
My last name is very uncommon. It’s a misspelling of a slightly more common Italian surname. My cousin and I appear to be the only people who share our first and last names, in either the misspelled or correctly spelled version.
My wife and I gave our daughter an Irish first name. We assumed that the combination of an Irish first name and our uncommon Italian last name would be unique. We were wrong. A couple of years ago our daughter received an email meant for someone else with the same name as her (though it’s the slightly more common correctly spelled version). That was surprising enough but then last year she introduced herself to one of her teachers and he said that her liked her name because it’s his mother-in-law’s name. A Google search suggests that there is yet another person with her name out there.
The combination of my wife’s first name and our last name appears to be unique even though her first name is very common.
Four others, according to the website everyone seems to be using. One is a New York tax attorney, one is a Michigan realtor, and the other two are mysteries.
I am the only one in the world as far as I know. It is a little odd because both are fairly common English words. Then again, I have never met anyone with my given name either but I am about to. My cousin just gave his first born son the see name and I get to meet him tomorrow. We do not have the same last name though. Having an extremely distinctive name has its advantages but it also makes it difficult to deny anything in case something goes wrong. I use a variety of pseudonyms in some casual interactions for that reason.
Yes, a person who was somewhat famous mainly during the 1940s-60s. He took it as a stage name, however, while I was stuck with it at birth.
I doubt few people under retirement age recognize the name now, which is fine by me. As a kid, I got sick of hearing the same lame joke from teachers doing roll call on the first day of class.
First and last names are very common, so there are many, many people with the same name. My middle name is quite rare, however, so I doubt there’s another person with my full name.
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.
There seem to be many hundreds - my first name might be the most common. Last name is less so - in the top 800 or so in the US. I see others in my credit history quite often, but my middle name clears the problem (it is a rather rare given name).
Still though, I ran across a kid in Kansas that matched all three - so, including my long dead gg-grandfather there have been three of us.
