Bizarre coincidence with my name

Woman who lives here has same name, spelled the same way as mine. I have not met her, but have met two people who once worked with her.

My mom's first name is common, but not her last name.  I recently found out one of her doctors has nine patients with the same first and last name!  

I have an unusual first name. Anytime I hear of someone with the same name I get excited. My maiden name is uncommon also. I would be flabbergasted to find out that there was someone with my same name!

We have a fairly unusual last name. Years ago we were at a county fair (not ours but further north) and we went to our favorite thing- the goats to pet. Love them.

I have a photo of DD petting them under a 4H sign with the 4H kid's name on it. We didn't even notice until I had photos made. The name on the sign was exactly the same as my daughter's first (not that common) and last name. (even less common/weird spelling)

Turns out there was a distant relative with a daughter by the same name.

My son's name was fairly unusual when I named him, but has become a bit more common. He decided to go back to college in his late 20s. One day he asked me, why I was calling the college about him. What the heck? I didn't call the college. Come to find out, there was another student there with his same name. We have currently learned there is a 3rd one here in Colorado with the same type of business! Son has redesigned his business name, logo, web page as a result as he doesn't want to be mixed up with someone else.

I have a less common first name, and paired with my maiden name, it was quite uncommon.

My first day of grad school, I go to get a student ID made, and they can’t find me in the system. Apparently there was an undergrad freshman with the same name as me and the system confused us as the same person!

Of all places to go to school, we picked the same one and happened to start at the same time.

My surname is a common first name but rare as a surname, and my DS’s first name is also a surname but much less common as a first name. Imagine something like Wilson David. Many years ago, XDH took DS to the GP, where there was another patient whose name was the reverse - so like David Wilson. And bizarrely, they had the same birthday, but DS was born in 1997, while the other guy was born in 1979. 

I knew a couple of people who had my full maiden name, but have never come across anyone with my married name. 

No, not me. But my cousins have and nobody knew there was anyone else with their names until a few years ago. Now, there are a whole bunch of people with the same unusual names! It's so weird, especially seeing them all on the same pages in a genealogy or family group.

I just have to say that bolded me made me smile. My husband is Sicilian and the first time he brought me to his house and hometown we were driving around and we passed a house and he said: "That's my cousins house. We don't talk to them." I asked "why" and he said "I have no idea."

There's two separate families in my area with the same name. Absolutely no relation. When my dad and his sisters were kids, they went to one school. The other family lived in a tiny town just south of here and attended that school. Despite being in the same county, the differences in school sizes meant that they never played each other in sports. However, the local paper covered the whole county. My aunt and a girl from the other family had the exact same name. To make it confusing, they were the same age and they even played the same sports!

There are stories of extended family members calling my grandpa to tell him that the paper got my aunt's school wrong or her position wrong.

Years and years ago my dad had a not very common first name, but the last name was not super uncommon. Dad’s parents did not give him a middle name so officially he was E_______ G______. Everything was fine until after her and my mom got married. They tried to buy a house and found out there was another EG with really bad credit. They straightened it all out - or so they thought. Over a number of years they would get past due notices, Bill collectors and denials of credit. They always figured it was this other EG.

It was only minor annoying until the other EG got arrested. Oh the calls they got! So dad officially took his mothers maiden name as his middle name. He started using the middle initial “H” . The other EG went to jail. All was quite until he got out and started using the same middle initial. And the credit problems started all over! Dad finally started meeting with creditors and banks in person, taking all sorts of official personal identification. Turns out, the other EG was a different race. I think they flagged dads accounts to verify identification. The problems mostly disappeared. But the other EG started using the letter “A” as his middle initial. They got bills and phone call in that name for ages because A and H sound so similar on old telephones.

There is a local real estate agent that shares my name whose name is on a ton of signs. Sometimes when I share my name, I'm asked if I'm her (somehow I doubt the same thing happens to her).

I haven't met my doppelgänger but once got given her prescription meds by mistake at my pharmacy.