The guy with my name was a minor league pitcher for years. I was happy when one day I googled and noticed he got called up to the bigs. He only lasted like a month, but hey, my dude made it. I also was proud of him lol. I would have bought his jersey if he stuck around.

I have only 2 other people in the known world to have my name. Both are in California, and both are in prison for embezzlement and some other financial crime.

Luckily haven’t had any trouble but it’s only a matter of time

I also found a guy with the same name and age when I was a kid.

Well the next thing I heard about him was an email from curt sent to my email. Well he was trying drive over his ex girlfriend with a car.

I am however not proud of him.

I have what I thought was a fairly unique name, but it turns out the combination of my first and last name is culturally common, and so while there aren’t many people with my last name, the ones that do have it often share my first name. I learned this when I looked myself up as a kid. I found a lot of us on Facebook and started a group. It was still going strong when I deleted my Facebook account.

Edit: I don’t want to dox myself, but my name is Fartin McFartface, however my friends call me Farty.

Searching my full name yields the results for some guy who is a PhD who is in a similar field of technology as me. I just looked and he has his own Wikipedia page now. Good for him.

I have run into a couple people with the exact same name as me. A couple of us follow each other on Instagram.

Compersion!

Exactly zero people have the same exact name as me because I have a total of 5 names, 2 first names (one western one japanese) and 3 family names.

A decade to a decade and a half ago, I setup an “as it happens” Google Alert for my first and last name. As a result, every once in a while I get an email about someone with my name who’s doing much better than I am.

meow

Back when Facebook was cool, I searched for other people that had the same name as me and friended them. It was good. There were like 60 of us.

Over time it became clear that some of them were awful so I unfriended them. Most stopped posting. Now it’s just one other guy. He’s leading a pretty good life. It’s nice to see.