Choosing names for low 'google-ability'. Am I crazy?

OP, I cannot stress enough how sensible this is! I would have loved to have parents with a similar mindset.

My first name is very common, but my parents kind of merged their last names when they got married. As a result, my name is in no way crazy, but I am the only one in the world (according to Google anyway).

I have a sensitive job in a very conservative industry. The amount of times I have said no to things (e.g. newspaper interview when I won something related to my - very non-controversial - hobby, etc) are so many - things can get twisted and in twenty years you many have different opinions/interests, but the Google entry will still be there.

Someone made a point that in 20 years this will probably be irrelevant - and that's true. But in the meantime, this annoys me every day.

Having a strong SEO name can be a massive asset. I'd be looking to make them as google-able as possible, rather than hard to find.

Both DH and I have/had unusual surnames and many members of our families over several generations are company directors so easy to find.

Isn't googleability often a good thing? To be able to be found if someone searches for you or your business?

Isn't the whole point of being named to be identifiable?

As far as I can tell, both DC are the only people in existence with their names, so I have made sure that they are very aware of this and careful about their internet presence. Controlling what other people write about them is harder, though.

This is something that I have thought about recently. I have a common name and so does my husband and kids. I like that in terms of Internet presence.

I'm unique :-) Combination of a little used traditional first name and the unusual spelling of an unusual surname. Something along the lines of Agatha Franklynne (but not). My maiden surname equally unusual. I'm the only one of me on Facebook and easily google-able.

Doesn't really bother me to be honest, and it's nothing i could have done anything about as when I was born in the 1970s nobody had a clue about internet searching and Google being 25 years in the future.

We share a surname with an actress that has a well known drug problem and ds name is the character she played so if you google ds name you get her.

No you don't - it's been 15 years since I did my GCSEs and they are still there for the world to see!! This tells them what school I went to. 192 tells them the approximate area I grew up in and my parents and siblings names. Common secret answers for passwords!

Only 3 hits - one is my fucking GCSEs which my school thought it was useful to put on the internet (not just mine, the whole class), one is flaming 192 because I forgot to tick a box or untick a box the first time I voted, and one is something I looked at once that somehow decided I wrote it.

Not really thought about it. I will teach them internet sense though i.e. Don't plaster yourself everywhere online.

I'm ridiculously googleable, so I just don't use my name on the internet.

My name is pretty completely ungoogleable. My first name is an object and my surname is descriptive- think Young.

Dd is apparently a fashion designer and an author of historical fiction.
Ds doesn't exist.

I'm almost unique and it is a bit of a worry sometimes. The DC on the other hand have very common names - if they want to build a unique online presence they'll need to unearth their middle names.

Wouldn't have made a difference what first names I gave our kids, our surname is ridiculously rare, so if you Google any of us we all pop up.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. My children have common first names and an unusual surname. I'm not going to change their surname to avoid google.

Be very careful with this. I have a unique name. If you google it there's just me, which means I have to be exceedingly careful about what I write online under my name.

Harder for mixed culture families. Alejandro Jones is going to be a lot more distinctive than Alexander Jones but if mum is Spanish/dad is Welsh then that's what often happens.

I love that my name is common enough that I'm not easy to find on social media unless I want you to find me (or I find you)

Honestly it saves so much hassle, I don't get friend requests from colleagues and relatives that I don't want to accept so I avoid that awkwardness.

I have friends with searchable names who have had all sorts of trouble - one had a colleague find their face book and work out their password and caused him loads of trouble. Others have been stalked online by clients etc. I have none of that! There are too many of my name!

I have a common as muck name (think Sarah Jones or Jane Smith), and I don't like it. I'm never the only one in a database, so I always have to give other identifiers in addition to my name, and honestly, it's just boring and unoriginal.

I'd rather have a less common name and be Googleable.

Mine weren't needs must when we named them but stuff can change quickly :(