Any duplicate names are your workplace?

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

We've got

2 liz
2 kirsty
2 Stacey
2 Heather
2 Johnny
2 Lois

Yes I'm bored.

I expect so as there's over 3000 of us. I used to work with a guy that had the same first name AND surname as the CEO of the high street bank we worked for. We got a fair bit of misdirected post through the internal mail (pre internet days).

the last place I worked had 3 x Louise, 3 x Ann, 2 x Karen, 4 x Julie, 2 x Alison, 2 x Lynda, 2 x Tracey, 2 x Margaret & just to add to the confusion there was one each of : Aileen, Eileen, Ilene, Irene & Irena .

Our place isn’t as big as that but I have a colleague with the same initials & first name as the HR Director. He told me that he frequently gets misdirected emails, followed by urgent requests to delete them.

Most of the men are called Peter or Ole, although one Ole left. We had 2 Jens but one retired and the other sadly died.

We had a team at one point that was almost entirely composed of men called David.

If it’s a large workplace, obviously there will be plenty.
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I used to work with 3 Sarah’s and 2 Rachel’s. Small team.

Yes, loads. It's a big organisation, loads of people have same first and surname as someone else - me included.

It's a bit of a nuisance with emails - sometimes as you get them for the other 'you' or they get yours.

Small company (think less than 20 direct employees) with 3 Ben’s plus one woman whose husband was also Ben.

I once worked in a department of 50 people where there were seven Rebeccas.

Oh my god, so many Robs.

Yep, we have loads, including several where both first name and surname are the same (I'm one of them). I got a lot of her emails when she joined at first, but most people have sorted it out now.

We have 2 guys in our department with the same first name and surname. Causes them no end of problems cos they keep getting email for the other one.

There's a joke at our firm (law) that if you're female and your name isn't Elizabeth, Katherine or Helen, you won't be offered a job with us! At one point there were three Elizabeths in a department of about 12 in total.

Lawyers are generally known for being risk adverse. Maybe it started with our parents as safe, traditional names in our profession are very much the norm.

We are overwhelmed with Brians! 22 men in the entire company and 4 of them are called Brian. Then in joint second place we have 3 Richards and 3 Mikes. Only 4 women in the company and we all have unique names.

Lots of Martins

At one company I worked for, there were 8 Denise's!

My team (6 people) has two Jameses, each of whom is married to a woman called Sophie...

I've also had a 'David' team, and currently have a 'Chris' team. My industry is overwhelmingly middle class, middle aged white men.

In my last job there were two other consultants with the same forename as me in the Trust. We had different surnames, didn't look anything like each other and were in totally different specialties but people regularly got us confused.

Lots of Andrew's at a previous place

In my team of 6 there are three people who have the same first name and another two who have a different same first name. 4 people have the same middle name.

My colleague has the exact same name as our CEO. He’s had some very interesting emails in the past…

Small workplace with only women and no duplicates but most of us have a husband called Matthew, David or Andrew. Seems like there wasn't a great deal of boys' names in circulation in the 70s and 80s.

We have several Lucys. It's a bit of a running joke. But I don't think any other duplicates.