Have you ever met someone who had the same surname as you but not relate to you?

[Spinneret]

no for myself

 

[loves to dive]

Yep, I have a very unusual first and last name and there was actually another woman in Albuquerque who had the same first and last name. She even spelled it like mine.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Yes

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Have you ever met someone who had the same surname as you but not relate to you?​

Yes. However, since my mother was doing our family genealogy, we sort of figured out that we were possibly related about 4 generations back.

 

[AnnaS]

Yes, many times

 

[Ladcassidy]

I grew up with an unusual surname, and I got "caught" taking pictures of a vanity license plate with a shorthand version of the same name. The car's owners laughingly told me that they once took a picture of a mailbox while on vacation because they saw the same name there. Turns out the mailbox picture was of my grandparent's beach house.

 

[Dailymeel]

When I was a small child back when we had phone books, I found one other family in our city with the same unusual surname as me. We went to the same university and the guy also had the same letter to their first name as me. In our university they use the first alphabet of your first name and then your surname for your email. For example John Doe would be jdoe@univeristy.com

I was always miffed that I had a number 2 added onto my email and wondered who the original was.

When I was 18 I got a job at a restaurant downtown and finally met the guy with the same surname as me! He had been working at that restaurant for 3 years when I worked there. 15 years later, we are still friends to this day

 

[mumto3girls]

Yes. We live across the street from a family with the same last name as us and we are not related. To make it even more complicated, they also have 3 daughters close in age to my 3 daughters. Our last name isn’t super common but not unusual either.

 

[leebee]

My last name is very unique, so unique that when we traveled, my mom used to check the phone books in hotels to see if there was anyone in the city directory with our last name, and we never found anyone. Imagine my surprise when I learned there were two little girls with my surname in DD's dance class, 21 years ago! I talked to their mom and we are not related at all, at least not that I can deduce. Interestingly enough, about 3 years ago I had one of the girls in the organic chem lab that I teach!

 

[georgina]

My married surname, yes, especially on vacation in Wisconsin which is full of people of Scandinavian descent. My birth name, no, although I did find someone on a Facebook search with my exact name. Much younger, but similarities like Catholic all girls high school, etc.

Yep, I have a very unusual first and last name and there was actually another woman in Albuquerque who had the same first and last name. She even spelled it like mine.

My first name has an Irish spelling, which is fairly common among Irish people but not the general public, and there used to be no one in the entire country I could find with my first name/married last name. Now there is one, I am no longer unique.

 

[RangerPooh]

Yes! In grad school I had a classmate who’s wife was a student in a different department, who had the same first and last name as me. Neither if us had changed to our married names either. To complicate things more, we both worked for the university later. So emails would be mixed up until I switched to my married name.

 

[barkley]

dh had the issue with someone who had the same first and last name in the town he grew up in (and close birth dates). person had some issues with the law so if dh was pulled over he immediately announced to law enforcement to be aware that he was NOT that person. when we married we had to alert creditors b/c the other person had a ka-ka credit record.

my oldest lives in a town of around 13K YET there is someone with the same first and last name . the only issue we've run into is with the local pharmacy-have to identify not only by name but also by address.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

No, at least not in this country. My surname is a very long, weirdly spelled Lithuanian name. I've never met anyone who was even close to the same.

 

[Juliet25]

I never met her, but I applied and got accepted to a college that someone with my first and last name was also accepted to.
Something was switched and we ended up getting the other’s paperwork. I attended but she didn’t. My maiden name was Slavic and pretty uncommon, but apparently it was more common in Nebraska than St. Louis.

 

[fla4fun]

I have a very common name, so there are a lot of people with my whole name, let alone my last name. One of my former coworkers had the same last name, and we were not related.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Never have I ever...

 

[E&Cmom]

My maiden name is very unique and there are not many. I believe everyone at leas in Canada with the same name is somehow related to me.

My married name is an extremely common last name so I met many many people with that last name.

 

[Colleen27]

No, and I probably never will. My grandfather was in sales and traveled all over the US. Everywhere he went, he checked phone books for others with our last name, and he never found any. The spelling we use split off from the more common spelling (of what is still an uncommon name) five generations back, and between smallish families for the time, early deaths, and a lot of female children, only my grandfather and his brother carried it into recent history. My great-uncle had only daughters so in my father's generation it was just him and his brother, and in mine it is down to one male cousin who doesn't plan to have kids. So the name will likely die out with our generation.

 

[amcnj]

Yes. When I was in my early 20’s. My grandmother was in the hospital and a nurse there had the same surname and stopped by to see if the patient was any relation.

Subsequently I have read of others with that name, but haven’t personally met them.

it is not a real common name, around 500 people in the US had it at the time of the 2010 census, and supposedly 5,000 people worldwide. Who knows if we are related in some way.

 

[indimom]

Yes, but I have a very common last name.