Do you hate people who share your first name?

So basically yeah, all other Emmas should be eradicated.

(I like Em or Ems too. But not Emmy. yuck. cue all chums now calling me that always)

my gf is a kate altho she seems to prefer katie as well, i'm not keen as it just sounds more 'infantile' - like Stevie is a bit lame, if you hate fun

I don't mind other Elizabeths, although other Lizzes in my immediate circle would be a tad confusing. On my floor in the first year of university there were: 2 Elizabeths, 2 Rebeccas, 2 Rosies, 1 Anna + 1 Hannah. Somewhat trying but amusing. I really really hated the guts of a Lizzy in my year at school though, which may explain my antipathy to being called that now, apart from by my mad uncle the vicar.

Then uni - and relief! No Marks on my course at all! It was Bristol Uni, tho, so plenty of Tarquins ;). My relief was short-lived as *all four* demonstrators on the Plant Sciences practical course were called Mark. One of them, however, for some unspecified reason preferred to be known as Blotbag.

Liz is correct; sinister Marainna *is* lovely. ILx Marianna has nothing to ph34r.

I referred to Sinister Marianna in an email as 'Marianna M.' once, and when i read it back I couldn't work out why I'd got her last initial wrong as I know perfectly well it is L. But now it occurs to me that ILX Marianna may have been insinuating herself into my thoughts...

I've always vaguely thought Peter was a very common name, but, I don't know anyone else who has it. I think I like my name more because of this. If I met some other Pete(r) I think I'd get pretty protective.

(sub-question: full-names vs. diminuitives. personally i don't see why anyone called Peter wouldn't want to be called Pete...)

I think the Nicks on ILX have made Nick a favourite name of mine. Nick Dasto0r is the malignant force among them, the exception etc.

The other Marks rox0r too, though I agree with MarkH about the early 1970s and our name. My mum blames it on Captain Mark Phillips. When I was living in Italy, I was out with 6 other people for dinner one night, and all 4 males were called Mark. Hilarity ensued!

AFA ILX IC that Gillanders geezer seems like a fine sort of fellow to me.

Famous Nicoles don't bother me either. NK is an okay actress, but if she were somebody lame like a Jennifer Love Hewitt-type then maybe it would irritate me.

I've probably mentioned this before, but in my 7th grade English class, the teacher asked us all to discuss different names and their conotations. Selena, the most popular girl in the whole school, raised her hand and said, "I've always found SARAHS to be really snotty and stuck up," and realizing I was sitting beside her quickly added, "Uh, no offense to Sarah or anything."

today was the first day of class and these two guys sitting behind me introduced themselves to each other as "Curtis" and "Stephens"

do you hate them

at least neither of them was named crutis

I HATE THEM

I have a pretty obscure but not 100% original name, and so I know people who have met people with my name, but I have never met anyone with my name. I sorta never want to.

my first name is very common. on average, people with my name are slightly better than everyone else in the world

I'm pretty cool with people who share my name because they tend to be pretty cool. After reading the original post I'm glad my name is the diminutive form of Kate. Yeesh. I thought I'd grow to become a Kate one day or turn into a full blown Kathleen but they just never stick. Even if I don't tell people my nickname or try to use the more adult form of it they somehow figure it out or add the -ie. It permeates my being.

I'm suspicious of people with my last name who aren't related to me. I have never met one in person.

Not too many T3ds around. which is nice for me.

there is a facebook group featuring sixty-some people with my exact name, which might as well be White Bread

I don't know any!

i have only met a half-dozen remys, only one of whom was male. i think we're cool, i guess. jeremys – my given name – are a dime a dozen, and they usually suck.

on fbook there are eight people who share my exact name, and they all seem to reside in the uk

definitely the only person on the planet w/ my full name and although I like the concept, I'd rather have google-anonymity. gf's super common full name gets 634,000 google results vs. 23 for me.

i have a common name but the exact spelling of mine is rarer and more old-fashioned

there's a guy round these parts who posts with my first name as his display name, except he's applied to it this whimsical or whatever formatting scheme, and for that i hate him. drives me nuts cause it's such a beautiful and noble name that should never under any circumstances be subjected to such lexical asshattery, yet there it always is, ridiculing me (and to a lesser extent, us)

and i don't mean 'del,' he cool

I never meet anyone with my name

del griffith's first name is 'Nedaraggett' btw

I apologise if your name is Herman.

My first name is most commonly a surname and a very rare forename, only ever met one in fact, he was 2 years older than me at secondary school.

hello my name is Nedraggett Jones it is nice to meet you

My name is rare enough that I don't encounter many people with it, but common enough that every few years I have to shake hands with someone who's like "Doug - that's a great name. You see, I'm a Doug too!" which to me seems like a really awkward introductory gambit.

I was like 7 the first time I met another Doug.

dougs sorta sound like dicks if that's the case

I mean in the asshole sense not in the name 'dick' sense, dicks probably don't say "I'm a dick!" that often

It would be awkward if I hated people who share my first name. My office mate has the same name! Two patron saints of Scotland back here!

I feel like it would ruin movies and tv shows for me if characters had my first name

if you GIS for "officemate" you get like 80% filipinos

jeremys – my given name – are a dime a dozen, and they usually suck

u aint lying brother thanks for being a remy

definitely the only person on the planet w/ my full name and although I like the concept, I'd rather have google-anonymity.

the only people i've met with my first name have been nice middle-aged ladies, hard to hate.

all the Heathers I've ever met have been disconcertingly normal and hard to dislike. nothing like the movie either.

yes. how could i not hate someone trying to steal my name?

i've wanted to do a noise band composed entirely of people with my first name (which is Sarah) for a while - I could probably easily round up 6 or 7 that I hang w/regularly

though in high school it was ridiculous, because not only were there regularly two other Sarahs - we all had the same middle name - (which does start with an "e")

I have a very common name - more or less a hibernian John Smith. Good for superficial googleproofing, but some awful shits do share it - gun nuts, catholic frat boys, etc.

o ffs now i have an indie/alt.country band. I hadn't seen that before.

I've known surprisingly few other Toms, and generally have been 10,000 times more awesome than them so hating not really worthwhile.

I have not worked out how I feel about Karens.

Karen seems to be a Norse version of Catherine and I *HATE* Catherines but perhaps the Viking-ness makes up for it.

hate this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuley_Boteach

definitely the only person on the planet w/ my full name and although I like the concept, I'd rather have google-anonymity. gf's super common full name gets 634,000 google results vs. 23 for me.

― iatee, Monday, August 23, 2010 12:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i am in this exact same situation, and I know exactly what you mean. Weird hebrew-american names represent!

your name is shmuley boteach?

oh wait, first name thread

cuz otherwise that is kind of a long shot

yes that's true

I am the coolest Dan alive

Cooler than Dan Perry? Hmmmmmmm

no no no, you don't understand, Dan Perry is the name of my dog

I got really annoyed when I was about 7 and met someone with the same name as me. A few years ago I was in Boots and a girl was running around while her mother was shouting her (my?) name at the top of her voice. I got talking with the mum but the girl didn't want to talk to me because I stole her name. Fair enough.

They're the only two people I've ever met with my name, there was a minor Simpsons character with aswell though, and that annoyed me too.

Feel 4U, Boobarella.

Oh great. Another Kate to hate.

GET YR OWN NAME, BEE-YATCH, I HAD IT FIRST.

i just hate people tbf