As a middle-aged Rebecca, this has been my life since my teens 😂 In fact, there is a woman who lives in my (small) city with the same first and last name!
I didn't meet another Ethan until I went to college. Now it's a popular name in the like 25 and under crowd (I assume they're named after me?), and every time I hear someone say it I turn around. Even if it's like a mom at the grocery store clearly chasing down a toddler.
At one point, I had three David’s in my team (including me). Two is easy: Dave / David Three is starting to get tricky: Dave/David/Davo Four is right out.
@david when i was in primary school i was one of 4 children in my class who also had my legal first name. It should be no wonder i still don’t use it socially!
I've gone my whole life knowing and interacting with no other Donalds. I'd be shocked if I heard someone call out the name and they weren't speaking to me.
Of course, in my case, the wider cultural associations have never been great. Lots of Donald Duck chants and taunts as a child. And more recently, I have to keep teaching autocorrect not to guess what I want to write after my first name.
when I was at school I was one of three with the same name in our group of friends, in perhaps some spirit of fairness none of us were ever called by our first name, only a nickname version of our surname edit: correction, I just remembered it was actually 4!
as a Tim I can say I definitely do not cope adequately with this at all, and feel fresh, raw embarassment every time I think back to that moment in year 9 when my high school crush at the time waved at me and said "hi Tim!" and I waved back but she was actually talking to another Tim just behind me and they just looked at me like I was an alien and went on with their conversation right next to me and arrrrrrrrrrgh
recent age cohorts have contained a relative explosion of brennens and brennans along other names which people frequently mistake mine for, and i am not yet mentally equipped for it at all.
I started using Steveg in response to there being 3 Steve's in a DnD group 4.5 decades ago. And then there is the "Bill solution" as practiced in a TTRPG by @rdm and myself playing as two trolls (some dramatic license has been taken). "Hi I'm Bill" "And my name is Bill" "Oh, err, my name's Jane" Trolls look blankly at each other ... "Not Bill then?" "No, Jane" "That's gunna cause confusion" "Yeah that's a real problem" "Mind if we call you Bill so there's no confusion?" "Good idea Bill that'll work"
Through most of my school years I shared my deadname with two others. We started a band. It was in the top handful of names for kids in the year when I was born.
As is my real name. That was part of the attraction; taking a similarly naff name so I didn't feel I was taking advantage of my situation to cheat on a really flash one.
But I've not met another in recent years, and young people often aren't even sure how to pronounce it.
@Deborah Pickett When I hear people on the street calling my name (Elena) I assume that they are talking to somebody else. When I hear people on the street calling my surname I assume that they are from high school and try my best to not acknowledge them :D (with very few exception), when people on the street call my nickname (valhalla) I can pretty confident they are actually referring to me, unless I'm at Lucca comics or a similar place.
at my former employer (where I now do consulting work) there are two Daniel’s. The first one gets to be Daniel. The second must content himself with Dan. God only knows what indignities would be wrought upon a third Daniel. I doubt they would make it through an interview.
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Bec
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Wataru Tenkawa 天河航
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Ethan Blanton
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •David de Groot
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Two is easy: Dave / David
Three is starting to get tricky: Dave/David/Davo
Four is right out.
Jürgen
in reply to David de Groot • • •Lea de Groot 🇦🇺
in reply to David de Groot • • •Donald Hobern
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •I've gone my whole life knowing and interacting with no other Donalds. I'd be shocked if I heard someone call out the name and they weren't speaking to me.
Of course, in my case, the wider cultural associations have never been great. Lots of Donald Duck chants and taunts as a child. And more recently, I have to keep teaching autocorrect not to guess what I want to write after my first name.
Deborah Pickett
in reply to Donald Hobern • • •Deborah Pickett
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Andrew Hastings
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Kristopher Johnson
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Ordos Mk.0
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •edit: correction, I just remembered it was actually 4!
Tim 🎮
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Citizen ❎️❎️
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •there were 3 people with my name in my work group at one stage, we also shared the same first 2 letters of family names 🤷♀️
At work we hot-desk and so chose to sit beside one another 😆
"Oh, I thought you were talking to...." points to others
brennen
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •brennen
in reply to brennen • • •DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Steveg58
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •And then there is the "Bill solution" as practiced in a TTRPG by @rdm and myself playing as two trolls (some dramatic license has been taken).
"Hi I'm Bill"
"And my name is Bill"
"Oh, err, my name's Jane"
Trolls look blankly at each other ...
"Not Bill then?"
"No, Jane"
"That's gunna cause confusion"
"Yeah that's a real problem"
"Mind if we call you Bill so there's no confusion?"
"Good idea Bill that'll work"
rdm
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Fraser
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •My comp sci class at uni had Dave C, Dave S and Dave T. None of them used David.
The first and so far only time it happened to me is when my wife started working with a Fraser. I called him Faux Fraser.
Ben Haylock :mastodon:
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Katy Swain
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Through most of my school years I shared my deadname with two others. We started a band. It was in the top handful of names for kids in the year when I was born.
As is my real name. That was part of the attraction; taking a similarly naff name so I didn't feel I was taking advantage of my situation to cheat on a really flash one.
But I've not met another in recent years, and young people often aren't even sure how to pronounce it.
I'm an ancient relic!
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Thorne Lawler
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