Ever met your namesake?

[LordHaveMurci]

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]

I meet my namesake a few times a week (share the same name as my dad )

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]

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

[backwoodsman]

I know of 3 others, my father, grand father, and great grand father.

[Joe5y]

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]

Nope.

[shirt]

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]

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]

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]

Sadly, yes. The tw*t who was Education Ministry until recently ...

[MarshPhantom]

kambites said:

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

Me too. I had no trouble getting [e-mail] a few years back.

[Toltec]

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]

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]

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]

kambites said:

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

Ditto

[pad58]

I met someone with the same name on FB, well when I said met I mean tagged.

[HTP99]

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]

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

[rasto]

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]

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