The only time I’ve even been aware of someone with my name is when Google started sending me alerts about highschool sports where “I” was mentioned. It’s always from Florida or some similarly fairly-far-away place (I’m in Ontario, Canada), and certainly not me.

I’ve been involuntarily following this kids sports career just because Google keeps sending me emails about my name being mentioned. I wish the kid all the luck in the world. I hope he makes it some day.

He’s far too small of a player to be known about by even the most avid sports fans in my local area. I’m somewhat aware of at least three more people with my same name, and one with my last name as their first name, and my first name as their last name… I get their emails all the time; there’s literally one letter of difference, as my last name adds an ‘s’ to the name (think Steve vs Stevens… kind of thing. Neither my first nor last name is Steve or Stevens, but it’s the same idea).

I’ve also gotten receipts for motorcycle parts in my name, shipped to someone who is clearly not me… again, for a location that’s rather far from me geographically (in my inbox/by email). I’ve also had my email signed up for several school board mailing lists for counties that again, I don’t live in, and have never lived in… so that’s fun. I used to try to email my email-address-neighbor to get the messages to them so they would know there’s a problem and call the relevant people to have it fixed. I never recieved a response and the messages never stopped coming, so I tried to unsubscribe, and failing that, made an inbox rule to file them in the round “very important” bin 🗑️

My name is rather unique, so I’m a bit surprised that even this much has happened to me.

I have the same surname as one of the most important composers in music history from the 1500-1600. It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t a musician, and a composer specifically, myself.

Every people I’ve interacted with in my trade has made some remarks on it, and if someone searches “[name] composer” they obviously won’t get to my music!

Oh man, don’t you hate it when your social security number is the same as a famous person? Anyways, post your social security numbers ha ha, Lolz, we’re having fun!

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I have a friend who’s name is Alexander. I call him Hamilton

I share a name with someone who is obscure enough to not come up in many conversations, but famous enough that he monopolizes the Google results for my name.

I quite enjoy the relative anonymity.

I shared a name with a character on 90210. It was pretty annoying for a decade but it’s been awhile since anyone has made that comment

I have the same name as a barely famous YouTuber, not famous enough for people to know the name in real life. The only thing that happens is that I occasionally get emails meant for him. I do own the name’s website, so I’m hoping he gets really famous and tries to buy it off of me for a lot of money.

I love that my online presence is practically invisible because of the celeb with the same name.

I did get a really spicy email from one of their fans once.

I once knew a girl who shared a birth name with a porn star’s porn name. She dealt by telling people to never google her unless they wanted a virus.

My first and middle name are the first and last name of a very famous comedian/actor/writer. I was born in 79 during the height of his wild crazyness but my dad swears up and down that it had nothing to do with the choice of names. I’m just very happy this particular comedian is still a beloved and respected figure with no major scandals or skeletons.

My Dad has the same name as a reasonably famous sports star in a different country. Unfortunately for me when I Google my name it’s just associated with rapists in the US… 😭

There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.

This applies to so many things. For the one person it’s a spontaneous one-time joke, for the other it’s every time they meet someone new.

Been there. Idk it doesn’t bother me, it bothers more when try sort of apologize mentioning that it probably bothers me.

“Oh sorry everybody must tell you that” Like yeah… and that too 😅.

I don’t use it a lot as it’s not that famous unless you are into that sport but sometimes when meeting new people I say jokingly (this not the name or the sport but as an example) “Hi, I am Roger Federer but I don’t play tennis”.

The jokes used to annoy me when I was younger, but now I appreciate the ice breaker they provide and just do a fake laugh and move on