name coincidences

[Sandbrook]

New neighbours have just moved in beside my sister. They parents have the same first names as DH & I. And their first born same name as our first born.
Funny isn't it?

A colleague in work also married 2 girls of exactly the same first name and surname.

Well it's certainly not unreasonable for people to have the same names...

YABU. LTB. HTH

I am fairly friends with two families - they don't know each other - with the same surname who each have 3 children, 2 of which have the same name. If I haven't explained that well it's like,

Ben, James and Adam Ryder
Ben, Elizabeth and Adam Ryder.

.....fairly good friends.....

Oh sorry aibu to expect then to change their names?

I had a friend who had the same name as me and her sister had the same name as my sister (not incredibly unusual names it has to be said, but not really common ones either.)

A work colleague's daugher has the same (not common) name as my daughter, and our birthdays are on the same day (but born a few years apart).

DP has a colleague who's daughter was born on my birthday and has the same name (excellent taste ).

We'll never have this problem as we all have weird names in this house (apart from DH)! Nobody in Britain has had DS's name in 200 years!

I love coincidences. I have a friend who is married now but all 3 of his ex-girlfriends went on to marry the man they met after they broke up with him and all three married a man with the same first name.

I know two married couples who had the same surname as the spouse before they were married. Not sure if I've explained that well: Ben Smith and Jane Smith got married, and are now Mr & MRS Smith. Two lots of them. Must be a real time saver on paperwork and no need for name changing.

My Dad and his brother both married women where both parents had the same names (so, changing names obviously, both had inlaws called Pat and John).

Me and my best friend both married unrelated men with the same unusual surname.

My grandmother in law has been married twice, both men had the same first and middle names.

Throughthickandthin - I have been reading a free book on my Kindle this morning, the main character was called Elizabeth Ryder and her brother was Ben...

Both my dad's wives had the same name. Both my mums husbands had the same birthday.

Ouroboros seriously , I just pulled those names out of the air. Unless I have read the book and used them subconsciously, but I don't think so.

I know two couples who share the same first names, and each have a son with the same name and a daughter with very similar names (think Jane & Jenny).

I went to school with a Spencer Penny and a Penny Spencer

I was adopted at birth, never knew my birth family at all. 40+ years later, we got in touch. My birth father has a daughter with the exact same first and middle name as me.

And my husband has a sister with the same first name as me, but she hasn't married so we have the exact same first and last name. we never borrow each others membership cards for anything honest

many years ago when DD was in her last year or Primary she went on a cricket course and met a girl who shared her name. Not just her first name but her middle AND surname. (think along the lines of Elizabeth Janet Parkinson).
When her parents came to collect her we had a chat, her mother shared DH's sisters name as well. We asked which high school she was going to and it wasn't the same as DD's.

Fast forward to DD's first day in college. She was handed her A Level timetable and it was totally wrong. Chasing it up she met a girl in the office who also had the wrong timetable.... Elizabeth Janet Parkinson. Much amusement all round, but in the lessons they did share staff were very confused.
First thought was 'birth month' Lizzie except both were born in October (days apart). Staff then settled on hair colour so Red Lizzie (DD) and Blonde Lizzie became the way of dealing with it.
This worked well over the first year, however, DD is a natural blonde and is now going back to her natural colour so by September both Lizzies will be blonde and the college will be confused again.

Bathsheba I'm intrigued as to what your ds's name is!

My brother works in a company of 20 workers. There is another man with exactly the same name as him and it's not a common first name or surname. Same middle name too but that is quite a common name.

My auntie married someone with the same surname so just changed from Miss to Mrs on marriage.

2 blonde lizzies

My BFF and I had grandmas with the same name, both of whom called their daughters the same name, and both of those daughters married a man with the same name so (not the real names) Granny Ethel had daughter Susan married to Bob. Two of the names (Granny and daughter) were not usual for the time so it's even stranger.

i find it spooky when you see documentaries about children separated at a very young age (eg 2 brothers) and adopted, often going to different states/countries, and they end up marrying people with the same name, giving their DCs the same names, doing the same kind of job, breaking their leg at the same time etc. spooky!

i think in my grandparents generation it was certainly much more common to know people with the same names - people did not move as far from home, and surnames were often very regional, there were very few other nationalities in UK, and there was more of a tradition of naming after father/grandfather, and also fewer names in circulation compared to nowadays.

There must have been dozens of William John Thomases or Albert James Smiths etc