Ever met your namesake?

Ever met your namesake?

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LordHaveMurci

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12,034 posts

168 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I went to rent a van to move house a number of years ago, the paperwork was out on the desk already filled in, the rental bloke was on a call.
Next thing, this bloke moves in front of me & starts messing wih my paperwork (even had my name on it!). Turns out in a small town of c8000 people there were two of us with the same name, in the same place at the same time renting vans to move house.
Luckily we weren't moving next to each other!

Must be other similar stories out there?

Edited by LordHaveMurci on Tuesday 21st October 13:31

ZOLLAR

19,908 posts

172 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I meet my namesake a few times a week (share the same name as my dad hehe )

To be fair if I didn't have the same name as him I don't I would as it isn't particularly common.

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world with my name. smile

backwoodsman

2,463 posts

128 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I know of 3 others, my father, grand father, and great grand father.

Joe5y

1,501 posts

182 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Not so much "met" but one of my guys e-mailed a canvassing interview offer for a job (LinkedIn) to someone with the same name as me and it turned out that he too owned a very similar company, who was of a similar age and from a similar area.

Nice to know that your competitors have the same name!

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Nope.

shirt

22,508 posts

200 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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no.

however we have a new guy at work. we share the same uncommon surname. my name is phil, his is paul. its causing lots of confusion including me getting his tax rebate.

Matt UK

17,649 posts

199 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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My dad and I obviously have the same surname but also share the same initial.

I sold our last house to him... what fun and games that was with the paperwork!

Jonnas

1,004 posts

162 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I've never met anyone with the same surname as me other than parents/missus/kids but my sister in law went out with a bloke with the same name as me while she was at school.....

bunyarra

310 posts

211 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Sadly, yes. The tw*t who was Education Ministry until recently ...

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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kambites said:
As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world with my name. smile
Me too. I had no trouble getting myname@hotmail.co.uk a few years back.

Toltec

7,159 posts

222 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Met two other versions of me and know of a few others.

Given my surname is the 10th most common in Britain this not that surprising.

j00pY

335 posts

135 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I worked in an office with a guy with the exact same name as me. When he joined it crashed my emails as they somehow had two email accounts with the same name. He's a really nice guy and a relatively popular journalist and I get a lot of random football abuse tweets from people who think I am him. I hate football.

JulianHJ

8,733 posts

261 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I thought I was unique in terms of my name, and if you include my middle name I'm certain that I still am. However, I've just Googled myself and within the last three months someone with the same name has set up a LinkedIn profile. Oddly though, the business he represents only features the first part of his surname, so maybe he recently got married and decided to hyphenate. Damn him.

Still, makes it that much easier to blend in to the background online should I choose to I suppose...

feef

5,206 posts

182 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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kambites said:
As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world with my name. smile
Ditto

pad58

12,543 posts

180 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I met someone with the same name on FB, well when I said met I mean tagged.

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Not me, however my youngest has, she lives in the same town as us, is the same age, has the same unusual first name; Saskia, and same surname.

LordHaveMurci

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12,034 posts

168 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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HTP99 said:
Not me, however my youngest has, she lives in the same town as us, is the same age, has the same unusual first name; Saskia, and same surname.
One of our neighbours is called Saskia, the only one I've met' lovely name smile

rasto

2,188 posts

236 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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No, but my parents went on holiday to St. Lucia and staying in the same hotel as them was someone with my dad's full name who lived about 5 miles from them. Very small world.

When we were expecting our second daughter we got sent the wrong blood results for another lady whose full name matched my wifes. Her daughter ended up going to the same school as ours and was in the same class, but not related in any way.

ging84

8,828 posts

145 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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There is a guy in my industry with the same name as me. I think he might be part of the reason i have had some jobs