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How many people with your first name do you know?

163 replies

Joey1471 · 17/02/2018 17:21

I went to school with 5 others with my first name
Also know another so that would be 6

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stressedoutfred · 17/02/2018 21:51

Loads, thanks to my parents giving me the top girls name for the year! I went to school and have worked with a lot of girls with the same name Grin

borntobequiet · 17/02/2018 21:46

Two other girls in my class at school with the same name as me (60s).
Only met one other one since. Oh, and a random French lady.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 17/02/2018 21:42

I don't have an uncommon name but now that you ask the question I realise that I currently know no one else with my name. I have known a few during my life but no one that I'm in touch with at the moment!

MrsHathaway · 17/02/2018 17:59

yy Thomas Hardy (wonder if it's the same one?)

I have only met about five (of whom two are currently under eighteen). In all my life it's never been out of the top 50 in England and Wales, and is usually top 20.

Where on earth are they all?!

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 17/02/2018 17:41

No one, but I've met the occasional one.

ShowOfHands · 17/02/2018 17:40

Never met one. Never even heard it used for a person in my earshot.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 17/02/2018 17:40

None. Although my family are Irish, my great grandmother (never met her, she died in the nineteenth century!) was Romanian (Moldovan region as was then). My mother, and then I, were given a very Russian/Romanian name. Not that common in Russia and less so in Romania. Never met one in rl though there is one journalist and one singer with the same name.

GrouchyKiwi · 17/02/2018 17:39

3 in my school year (thought not with my spelling).
6 more off the top of my head that I went to school with, but in different years, and only 1 with my spelling.
5 more now I'm on the other side of the world, 2 with my spelling.

Mooey89 · 17/02/2018 17:39

I met one other person with my first name when I was around 4, everyone was shocked that there were two of us as it’s such an unusual name. Never met or even heard of anyone else with the same name in this country anyway since!

holasoydora · 17/02/2018 17:37

I knew nobody else with my name at school - primary and secondary. The odd one I would meet on holiday. It seems to have been in the top three or so since the 90s so now they are always around, though none among my middle aged friends.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/02/2018 17:36

When you say "know." Do you mean who I'm in contact with or who I just know or know of. If it's the first...0
If it's the latter about 15.
There were at least 2 in each class.
My names Clare.

TheWoollybacksWife · 17/02/2018 17:34

I have a name that was very popular in the decade I was born.

I was the only one of this name in my small primary school.

I was one of three in my year at seniors and two of my best friends had a sister with the same name as me.

I have never worked with someone with the same name as me but I have one good friend and a couple of friends of friends with the same name.

Interestingly (to me, at least) I share my first name with two of my first cousins - one maternal and one paternal. I never thought of this as an issue until I read some of the baby name threads on here.

ChocolateCrunch · 17/02/2018 17:32

None at school, none now. There are a few actresses with my first name - I always like to see it on the credits of a film/TV programme.

MistressDeeCee · 17/02/2018 17:30

None

Bluntness100 · 17/02/2018 17:29

One. It's weird, my name was apparently very common when I was born and dates me. As in common with women in their forties. Although a baby name thread on here seemed to think it was liked. But even though it was supposed to be popular at the time, I went to school with no one else called it and have never met anyone other than one person named it.

CPtart · 17/02/2018 17:29

In real life, none. It's a very 70's name, not particularly uncommon either.

fortifiedwithtea · 17/02/2018 17:29

OMG Mine is so common. Part it this way including myself there are 3 women with the same name in our road. There are only 8 houses in our road Grin

Sarahh2014 · 17/02/2018 17:29

Too many! As per username

slashdragon · 17/02/2018 17:29

None but I have a shit name 😩

Dizzybacon · 17/02/2018 17:28

One person at work and she spells hers with a K, which for the name in my opinion is very Jeremy Kyle.

Now everyone in the office thinks mine starts with K too! Saying that, I do forgive them as they are all a bunch of chavs!

MissWilmottsGhost · 17/02/2018 17:28

None. My best friend at school had the same name, same spelling, and we were born at opposite ends of the country, so we both assumed it was a really common and boring name. I lost touch with her years ago and have never met another Confused

Countingsheeeep · 17/02/2018 17:27

There were a few of us in my year at school, and I have met many since school. I have a very common name for my generation though.

MealyPotatoes · 17/02/2018 17:27

I used to know two at school but lost touch 20 years ago. I met one last week and we exclaimed that their aren’t many of us. There is one on TV who reads the local news.

Fekko · 17/02/2018 17:26

Neighbour of my boss. Famous woman but I’ve never met her. Only her.

OhPuddleducks · 17/02/2018 17:26

One at school (in a different year) and a family friend (for whom I was named). And that’s it! It’s a bugger to spell though.

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