Why do people give such basic names that will be an administrative nightmare?

[ThatFraggle]

If you have a 'bog standard' surname, why would you give your child a bog standard first AND middle name?

I'm not saying you have to call them Fifi-Tinkerbelle, but why put the person in a position that there will be dozens of people with the same name and date of birth. E.g. A name from the most popular names, (Chloe, Liam, Jack, etc.) plus common surnames (Smith etc.)

At least go for a middle name like Esmeralda, or Phoenix or whatever you feel like. You can have two middle names if you really want granddad Henry to be honoured in the name.

I'm guessing that this might be more of a problem if you are Chinese.

My husband in his line of work has come across many Chinese people who have the same name.

I am also the only person in the world with my first name and surname combination (a cousin has the male version of my first name and uses the same shortened version but spells it differently). Very very unusual surname, which consists of two words and can be quite a pain (even though it is spelled exactly as it sounds people still spell it wrong). I'm therefore extremely easy to find, which I don't really like.

an administrative nightmare is the spelling!
you wouldnt believe the spelling that people chose,
Rhyley, for example

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

John Smith. Who knows which one.

@troubg, it is naive in the extreme to believe that 'privacy settings' can somehow control news articles on publicly available websites.

Once information is on the web, it is impossible to control.

@Smartiepants79

”Younique nonsense” 😆
I haven’t seen that before but it’s brilliant.

My middle DD has a popular first name, the usual middle name to that first name and a common surname. In the village we lived 20 years ago, there was a child with the same name and DOB. We had to always check in at the doctors with our address.

On the other hand, my eldest DD is the only person on google with her combination of names!

It can be a thing. My friends oh moved into a new housing association house. His name was along the lines of Danny Jones. The same name as the man living there before him who had a lot of debt and the bailiffs kept coming and trying to take things from the house. Friends oh was losing the plot trying to explain he was a different Danny Jones but they didn’t accept it for ages.

I’d love to hear more about your fizzy drink example please @ThatFraggle 🙂the bit where the unfortunate chap dies, not you continuing to drink them.

Sorry! Meant to be @SpidersAreShitheads !

I work with an Emma Jones. I'm very jealous of her. She's never had to tell anyone how to spell orr pronounce it.

One of the reasons I eventually changed my surname to DH’s is because of the total anonymity of his very common name.

I don’t like being googled, and now you have to sift through pages and pages before you find anything about me

Well this is a thread about a problem that isn’t really a problem.

Lol!! I have a very common name and have never had any issues. Bailiffs 🤣

Complete non issue. For example, I work in a school where there's loads of Jaydens. They all have different surnames and dob. Very easy to distinguish between them.

I have a very common 80s first name (think Claire, Louise) and an utterly ridiculous surname that is a nightmare to spell and pronounce. There are only 2 other women with my first and surname on Facebook. I’m very identifiable on SM and Google.

DFiance has one of the most common surnames there is. I absolutely cannot wait to be Claire Smith and fade into obscurity.

There were two girls with exactly the same name eg: Jane Louise Brown, whose birthdays were eg: 3 May (3/5) and 5 March (5/3) of the same year in my sister's form at secondary school. One of them didn't get entered for her GCSEs due to admin error (it was the 1980s, very little was on PC, lots of handwritten lists etc).

My DC have pretty bland names with a traditional English occupation surname. They've got through to Y10 and Y7 unscathed.

I don’t understand the laziness of not even choosing a name but deciding your dc will be Robert Roberts or Charles Charles.

Same. DH has a super generic name - think 'Matthew James Jones' or something. We got chased for an electricity bill for someone with the same name and DOB for years, it was a nightmare when we were getting a mortgage.

On the other hand, I'm the only person in the world with my name and that means I'm very easy to track down!

I saw the case of the guy who's banned for poor behaviour all over town yet it's not him, it's some else with the same name and dob, just a slight spelling difference, so I understand what you mean.

I think you're getting heat cos of your terminology. My kids have unusual names but that's cos of their ethnicity....

How stupid was his middle name? I caused all kinds of hilarity when mine was revealed to be Crystal at school 😅

Probably because (1) there is no administrative nightmare and you are talking shit and (2) if no-one picked the top 20 from last year you would just end up with different popular names this year, it's frankly a ridiculous proposal to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Just because you know of one person who had debt mixed up does not make it a massive issue.

It's not something most consider when naming they're child. But there's a recent case I think it was Australia or New Zealand. Two women with exactly the same name and DOB and happen to look alike. They also live close to each other. Woman A has committed crimes etc. Woman B has a clean record. But for some reason letters for woman A have been sent to woman B's address and people who live nearby think she's A.

My husband and I both have uncommon first names and now the same unheard of surname. It means nosey people like colleagues can type in our first names only and see our wedding photos etc. I still wouldn’t give my child a very Joe Bloggs name though (if I married someone with a common surname). Although I do still like a classic first name.