Ever met your namesake?

[DannyScene]

Yes

He went to the same school as me but was a few years older, he also lived at the same house number as me only a few streets away

This lead to quite a few phone calls to the wrong parents etc during school, My mum once received a call advising her that I had missed one of my A Level exams despite me being only 12/13 at the time

[Yamahadivvyrider]

lukefreeman said:

My family originates from Wales and Syracuse, NY.

Surnames Hanson.but all my known family are Welsh.and there's seems to be loads of hansons in the us

[Yamahadivvyrider]

lukefreeman said:

My family originates from Wales and Syracuse, NY.

Surnames Hanson.but all my known family are Welsh.and there's seems to be loads of hansons in the us

[dmulally]

I found someone with my name from Ireland on facebook. I sent him a friend request and he accepted. Now anytime he posts anything I get confused until I remember I'm not as cool as Irish me.

;_;

[GrumpyTwig]

In nearly 30 years I've only in the last year met someone else with the same surname, so I'll be waiting a while to match the first names up to :[

[B3Svert]

My namesake is a Sergeant in the US Marines, his personal email address is the same as mine just without the dot in firstname.lastname@

Seems he and his platoon use their private email addresses for everything work related, so I have been called up to go to Afghanistan, called upon to sort out pay-related issues, loads of other st. At the beginning I used to email back saying they had the wrong guy, but then I got bored.

Now whenever I am emailed I craft a witty (to me) reply and then chuckle for days as the carnage ensues. Somewhere deep in a US military base, there is my namesake locked in "the hole" wondering what he's done

I should add both my first name and surname are rare, even more rare to use the same spelling as mine. In 36 years I have met 3 people that I remember with my first name, one who spells it the same.

Edited by B3Svert on Friday 24th October 06:42

[randomman]

droopsnoot said:

My mate's cousin has the same name as me, which causes minor confusion if I happen to be around when he's telling someone else a story about his cousin.

Didn't think this was a problem for blokes. In my circle there are several Daves all with nicknames, we have:

Big Dave
Little Dave
Boiler
Gay Dave (he's ok with this)
Jez

Simple.

[LordHaveMurci]

randomman said:

Didn't think this was a problem for blokes. In my circle there are several Daves all with nicknames, we have:

Big Dave
Little Dave
Boiler
Gay Dave (he's ok with this)
Jez

Simple.

A mate of mine was a techie in the RAF, there were 3 or 4 blokes with the same christian name, all the same rank so they all got nicknames, some more obvious than others!

[TIGA84]

Yamahadivvyrider said:

Surnames Hanson.but all my known family are Welsh.and there's seems to be loads of hansons in the us

Indeed.

[B.J.W]

Yes.

Bumped into him in a dodgy bar in Barry. Had a photo taken. My wife said that there was one about and that I had a good chance of meeting him.

[Jonny_]

Yep. Got talking to a chap on a night out locally, turns out he lives a hundred yards from me, has the same first and last name, a similar interest in cars, and works in the same industry.

Spooky.

Edited by Jonny_ on Friday 24th October 20:01

[B.J.W]

Jonny_ said:

Yep. Got talking to a chap on a night out locally, turns out he lives a hundred yards from me, has the same first and last name, a similar interest in cars, and works in the same industry.

Spooky.

Edited by Jonny_ on Friday 24th October 20:01

Did he 'disappear' when you turned round after washing your hands in the gents?

[Fluid]

Cfnteabag said:

Never met anyone with the same surname as me, I also know for a fact that I am the only person in the whole of the British MOD with my surname!

You've control K'd yourself haven't you?

[Looket]

feef said:

kambites said:

As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world with my name.

Ditto

+1.

Scary how much info a google search can come up with.

[TackleburyUk]

Never but i know he exists.

I have a pretty unique surname but there is a chap in Cambridge with it.

Ironically he's a fitness instructor and i'm a beer drinking smoker!

[mrmaggit]

I used to work with somebody with the same name. Given there were only thirty four people at the place, I thought that was fairly unusual, as did the bosses, who had a photo of us both on one of the in-house magazines.

[stackmonkey]

A second cousin of mine shares my name. (But not my skin colour. He's white, I'm brown.)

Many years ago, both families went to another cousin's very posh wedding; 5 course dinner, champagne reception with toastmaster etc.
As I hadn't seen my cousin for several years, and we had the novelty factor of meeting someone with the same name, I ended up heading into the reception with his family, not mine.

Poor toastmaster did a proper double take when I went in immediately after my name sake.

[Pit Pony]

In 2009, I was underemployed, and took my CV around all the local companies.

One bloke thought I'd personalised my CV for him. Same name. We had a laugh. I'm still on his list of people who will dig graves for a living, if he has a run on burials.


I also linkedin with 3 or 4 people of the same name. Not sure why I did that.

[karona]

My email addy was firstnamedotlastname at googlemail.com
my doppelgangers addy was samefirstnamesamelastname at gmail.com
googlemail asked me to change to gmail,
dots are ignored in gmail addresses.
I suddenly received an email from the US equivalent of the probation service, detailing my bail conditions for some heinous crime I had committed in the US.
That took some sorting out.