There are a bunch of people with my name. And, while I’m not a Jr or III or anything like that, there were about 12 of my name in a direct line in the genealogy my grandmother had done.
My name is relatively common, both generally and within my family tree. (As Mrs. B. says, there are only 12 male names in the US until we get to the Jaysonne/Jhonas era.) My (Biblical) middle name doesn’t seem to have any family precursors and I am not sure why it was chosen.
I come up pretty high in Google searches because I’ve been around, and been around a while, but there are somewhat more famous holders. Perhaps the most famous two are a one-shot movie actor and a very noted writer… and both are mildly embarrassing to be associated with. Oh, well.
Four of my children have ordinary to uncommon first names, but very unusual middle names (real names, spelled the real way and everything… but I bet you haven’t run into many Xanthes or Apollos lately…)
I am Firstname Middlename Lastname III. My grandfather is dead, but my dad and I still have the same first, middle and last names, and different prefix and suffix. He is Dr. Firstname Middlename Lastname Jr.
Regards,
Shodan The Two and Only
My name is, as far as I can tell, currently unique. That’s partially because many generations ago my last name shifted in spelling from a relatively common name to one that’s very rare.
When I googled myself I did find a listing for someone with my name in the 1861 “Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.” So apparently at one point I did have a name doppleganger, but I think it’s safe to assume he’s no longer around to share my name.
Up until a few years ago, googling my first/last name netted about two pages, most of them me. Then, I began getting FB requests from parts of the world where I had little to no connection. Hmmm. I googled again and came up with over a million hits.
It seems that a European celebrity with my name became well known about 2008. Little did the people making the friend requests know they were asking a middle aged woman from Tennessee, USA. 
The last time I had checked google didn’t list anyone else with my combination of First + Middle + Last name. It does look like there are three of us in the world, with the other two in the US. I show up on a marriage record in the States for my first marriage.
No one shares the same combination in either Japan where I lived or Taiwan now, which isn’t surprising.
As far as it’s possible to know, I’m pretty sure no one has my name. I’ve never actually met anyone else with my first name - it was more popular in the 1800s and early 1900s, but it’s pretty rare now. I also have two middle names and a moderately uncommon last name, so chances are I’m the only one.
I have a rare surname, but it’s been used (to my great irritation) as a character name in a very well-known TV show, so I have trouble occasionally convincing people that it’s my actual real surname.
My first name is David.
My first name is common. My last name is one of those that sounds like it might be common, but isn’t. I suspect it’s an anglicized version of a common Jewish surname, which is a bit odd since my father’s side comes from Germany (but only a bit odd). But it’s not terribly rare, either.
I don’t know the etymology of the Jewish form, but one of the components is an archaic English term for cottage by the sea, which describes where a lot of us have lived, if we count the Great Lakes as seas (including my grandfather, father, uncle, and a couple cousins, and hopefully me some day.)
Googling my firstname-lastname years ago, I came up with two of us who weren’t me: a garage punk bassist in Colorado (or somewhere like that), and a software engineer in Ohio. Which is amusing since I’m a software engineer and keyboard/guitarist, but don’t live in Ohio or play garage punk, at least, not on purpose.
But none has my middle initial, so I voted unique – the examples included middle names. I’m the only one mentioned in any RFCs.
My uncle has a doppelnamer who produced TV shows, including some episodes one of my brother’s and my favorites, Sea Hunt.
I’ve given enough clues that anyone curious enough could figure out my name, but there will be no prizes awarded so I doubt anyone will bother.
I doubt anyone has my combination of first, middle, last. There are maybe 2 dozen people with my first & last in North America; I find 8 on facebook, none on linkedin.
I am however the only semi-famous one; the first few pages of google results are all me.
I have an extremely unusual name, but thanks to the magic of the internet, I’m aware of a few more of me out there.
Guy in Colorado who has all three of my names-I actually Googled my name this morning (don’t ask why, only noticed this thread now), he and I are apparently the only ones in the US at least. My 1st two given names are pretty common, but the last one is descended from old Irish Gaelic, tho I was surprised to see a young baseball player with my last name make it to the majors a couple of years ago…
Google did reveal my old senior high school yearbook pic, tho, to my utter surprise…
Using my first, middle, and last names, I came up with two hits in the USA. Me and my father. So, not literally unique, (maybe ‘duoque,’ to coin a word).
My first and middle names are pretty common. My last name, though, ranks around #1400 or so in the US.
I am legion.
My last name is not at all common, in this country at least. And my first name is not common anywhere my last name might be. As far as I can tell, there’s only the one of me. If you include my middle name in the calculation, I’m pretty much certain of it.
If I Google my name, I find that there are at least 8 of us in the world, Firstname & Lastname, including my mom. None of the others, even Mom, has my middle name.
You’re pregnant with multitudes?
My name is quite common, it is even used by a character in a Leon Uris novel. (No, not Ari.) My wife’s first name, on the other hand, is unique in the US. It has been traditionally handed down in alternating generations for over 150 years. And hardly anyone gets it right, but me.
My first and middle names are about as common as you get in America.
My last name is extremely uncommon here in the U.S., but not unusual back in Russia. It’s even uncommon for other Russian immigrants to have this last name, because it’s not the typical way someone would write from Cyrillic to English (thanks Ellis Island!). Phonetically it works, but it’s not the standard way of transliterating it.
When I google myself, all of the hits on the first two pages are really me except for one, which seems to be a Russian person using the Americanized form of her first name.
Unlikely. Despite the deeply-embedded trope, agents and clerks at immigration ports did *not *change immigrant names. They were strictly *forbidden *to, even if the immigrant wanted to be known by an alternate or Americanized name. Some changed their name through simply using it and establishing their lives around it, but most had to get a court-issued paper to move forward and keep, say, old-world degrees and letters of reference relevant.
Immigration was an important and contested area of US bureaucracy. Immigrants had to have valid papers, officially issued by their government. Those papers had to be accepted and handled at face value, not as memos. Names had to be recorded exactly as on those papers. When transliteration was needed, a clerk fluent in that language handled the task.
Errors happened, yes, but there is no known case of an immigrant having their name changed, spelled differently, rearranged or Americanized. That makes a good story down the road, but Grandpa Shlomo Finkelstein was not heartlessly revised into being Samuel Frame by da gummint… he did it himself.