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Post by birukitty on Jun 6, 2020 22:56:14 GMT
My first name is super common for girls born in the 1960's but my maiden name is fairly unusual. Here's a funny story. When I was 15 (1975) my family moved to a small farm near a town in Virginia. My parents were into the "grow your own food, sustain yourself" movement even though my father was still commuting every day to Washington DC to his computer programming job. Anyway, it turns out a famous judge years back with our same last name was very prominent in this town and the library had our last name (H library) as did the local high school (H high school). Kids who lived in town went to this local high school. Kids who lived out in the county (which included myself and my sister) went to the other high school-the rival high school (JW high school). Yeah, it was tough and yeah we got teased a lot.
It was such an unusual name that when we first moved there and my father went into town to do business every where he went he was asked if he was related to this judge. Nope-no relation whatsoever. Just a funny coincidence.
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Post by freecharlie on Jun 6, 2020 23:05:47 GMT
When I was young there was a girl with my exact name at the Dr and my hs.
At my hs I got school excused when she was doing some activity, so I would ditch that class (they put up a print out daily)
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 7, 2020 0:44:51 GMT
Wow, that is a bizarre co-incidence!
A number of years ago we were interviewing people for a position at work. One of the resumes that crossed my desk was someone with the same first name, middle name and last name as one of my oldest friends. For a moment I thought it must be her, but the first name was spelled differently - Janine instead of Jeanine.
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Post by Dallie on Jun 7, 2020 1:09:22 GMT
Yes. Happened a long time ago. My sister got a letter from some reunion committee from a college I did not attend asking her for my info.
My sister took her husband's name when she got married, so she did not have our maiden name. How did they connect us? And back in the pre internet days, track her down?
I was able.to actually find my name doppelganger with little trouble and my sister sent her the letter. Which makes me wonder why they could not find their real alum but found my sister with a different last name. Just weird.
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Post by Lexica on Jun 7, 2020 1:42:55 GMT
Not only the same exact name that I had, but this woman named her son the same name I chose.
When I divorced, I went back to my married name, but several people still thought of me as having my married last name, my own sister included. I had signed my son up for T-ball in our area. My older sister had also signed up my nephew. She called me to tell me that my son and I were listed on their team roster that she had just received in the mail. I was confused because I intended to sign up for a team closer to my area and I thought they made a mistake. She said she was looking right at it and it listed my son’s correct name and under parent, my name. But, it was my married name.
When my sister attended the first game, she met the woman with my married name, who consequently named her son the same name as I had. Fast forward a little over a decade and my son and her son met each other at a party. They both remembered the mixup about T-ball and found it funny to finally meet. They are still Facebook friends.
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Post by Jennifer C on Jun 7, 2020 2:50:58 GMT
My ds shares his Dr with someone with his exact name. Same first, middle and last. We have to go by his birthday when checking in.
Jennifer
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Post by J u l e e on Jun 7, 2020 11:49:40 GMT
When I was in school there were two boys with the same first name and last name. Their first names were unusual for boys - Shannon. One of the families split up and the dad married another woman with a son named Shannon. Aside from how unusual it was to have one boy named Shannon, we had three. And the Shannon who married into the family took the father’s last name, so three Shannons all with the same last name.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 14:07:30 GMT
We don't have a common last name, except there are quite a few in our immediate region. At some point, we learned that a distant relation named their DD with the same first name as one of our DD's and they happened to be the same grade. Flash forward a few years and they both went to the same college - met once, few minor mix-ups as they got settled in. The following year the other girl had a tragic occurrence (that she survived) that ended up being national news. Our DD was constantly hounded - interview requests, questions, had $$ randomly deposited into her account, I had so many people ask me if *first name last name* was my DD and every time had to explain that funny enough, my DD the same age has the same name, goes to the same college but wasn't the girl that had the tragic occurrence.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jun 7, 2020 14:36:52 GMT
One of my childhood friends was engaged twice before she married, both to Steves. The third one she married and he was also called Steve.
My shortened name is not spelled in the traditional way and I've never met anyone else with the same spelling, and very few with the same full name. Now in my church there are 4 of us, and one other spells it my way. I keep getting emails for them and having to forward them on.
And one final coincidence. We have a patient in our surgery who not only shares my brother's first name (unusual) and surname (common) but ALSO his date and month of birth. The middle names are different, and the patient's birth year is one year different from our mother's birth year. You can imagine my excitement when I discovered that!
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Post by camomoftwins on Jun 7, 2020 18:27:43 GMT
My twin is the only person with her name, according to Google.
My own married first and last name is actually quite common. I used to inspect housing units for the Section 8 program, and one day one of our participants (same name as me) was up for inspection. I switched with one of the other inspectors so I could do her inspection, and when I knocked on her door, and she answered, I said "my name? My name is also my name!" She was a tiny elderly lady of a different race/ethnicity and we both got a chuckle out of it.
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Post by lisae on Jun 7, 2020 18:50:03 GMT
Many years ago when I was separated but not yet divorced from my first husband, a woman with my same first and last name (my married name) was killed in a car accident. She lived just a couple of miles from me but I didn't know her. The accident happened in a larger city and was covered on the news so people called my mother thinking I had died. The next day at work people came up to me so happy that I was alive. They just assumed that Lisa ___ from ___ had to be me.
I'm glad your name twin has a happier story.
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