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.

In my team of 8 people we have 2 guys called Dan, same age, look very similar and both have 4 year old sons called Ben. Very confusing

I used to work in an office in which out of approx 20 women, 3 were called Laura. Fortunately, they came from different nations of the UK, so they were known as ‘English Laura’, ‘Welsh Laura’ & ‘Scottish Laura’.

There's about 50 of us, we have 2 Joanne, 2 Gemma, 2 Stephen, 2 Ciara. we used to have 3 Catherine's and 2 Bronagh, but we're down to one of each!

Quite a few called Paul, Peter and David.

3 called Sallyann who all do the same specialist job in the same dept.

Ten years' time, we'll be inundated by Olivias and Graces.

Yes, many same and similar sounding names. And we are all in the same team!

My last place of work had five men with the same Christian name and surname.

Welcome to Scotland.

We had about six Marys at one point, but some of them have left or retired since. Two of the Marys had the same surname, which caused a lot of confusion - calls were directed to the wrong Mary and they often got post or e-mails which were intended for the other.

3 Rachel's (and one Rachael)!
We did have 4 Sarah's at my old place....

There are about 8 people in my building with either my first name or a very similar variant. It's not a particularly common name either.

Lots of Lucys

We have 3 Helens. Not really surprising as it was also the most popular name at school.

A lot of Lauras. A lot of Phils.

One place I worked was majority women and 3 men called Steve.

Our manager used to address the meetings "good morning ladies and steves"

We have 2 Natalies in the whole company- of which I am one!

There's only 6 of us where I work, and we all have different names.

Two of us do have the same birthday though.

In an office of 84 people we had four Lauren's (all aged between 22 and 31).

Public service announcement.

The plural of a name does not require an apostrophe.

Lots. x2 Sarah (and a Sara, to complicate matters), x2 Hannah, x2 Melanie, x2 Allison, x2 Nicola and x2 Adam.

I’m sure there’s more. There’s around 200 staff in total, though.

What's the chances of that?

I've heard of it happening on a maternity ward which i kind of understand. They were getting confliciting blood results, before someone twigged.

I have worked somewhere with two Jim Smiths and a John Smith just to confuse.
I also know a few kids who've ended up in school with kids with same first name & second name

It’s a large organization and there were once two employees with the same first, middle and last names and same date of birth.

If you have the same name as the head of Personnel, you get some embarrassing emails.

Department of about 20, 3 x Catherine/Kathryn/etc.

Big Catherine
Small Catherine and
Cath

Before that at high school there were 5 Catherine/Kathryn/etc and a Kathleen, but in other classes there were at least 3 more Catherine/Kathryn/and Kathleens.

I taught a class with a 'Black Chrystal' and a 'White Crystal'.

This is why in sign languages everyone has their own 'sign name', you might have 4 people called James but each will have a different sign name, it makes life much simpler.

Well as long as you are facing someone, sigh names can't be used in email.

3 Claire’s, that’s it. We are quite a small team so 3 of the same name is a lot.

A ward I used to work on years ago had 3 x Claire’s on shift together once. They all spelt their name differently too, very odd! Only happened once!!

Lots of people with the same first name but I also worked with a team of about 6 people, two of whom shared both a first name and a surname!