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

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Does anyone think of how uniquely searchable online their children's names will be when choosing them?

My kids all have full names that aren't particularly unique, so when you google them, they're lost in a sea of others with that name. Think "Lachlan Moore" or "Grace Evans" type of names.

I quite like this, as I think it means they can be harder to find online later in life if they choose, but they can make an effort to stand out online if that's their choice too.

Am I the only one who has ever had this cross their mind or am I completely raving mad? Prepared to be told I am!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

I think it is if that's been your choice. You'd name your business in a unique way or market yourself as Charlotte E Baker everywhere online and work on your SEO etc if it's important to you. But it's when it's not your choice that I don't like it, when you've been named online by others or people write your full name on a photo caption etc and it shows up at the top of searches. That's not been your choice but you often can't control the source.

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.