Asklemmy

Ok, how many people have asked you how many people ask you about your name?

OK ok, how many people have asked you about how many people have asked you about how many people ask about your name?

Think I broke both rules...

I have the same surname as one of the most important composers in music history from the 1500-1600. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't a musician, and a composer specifically, myself.

Every people I've interacted with in my trade has made some remarks on it, and if someone searches "[name] composer" they obviously won't get to my music!

The only time I've even been aware of someone with my name is when Google started sending me alerts about highschool sports where "I" was mentioned. It's always from Florida or some similarly fairly-far-away place (I'm in Ontario, Canada), and certainly not me.

I've been involuntarily following this kids sports career just because Google keeps sending me emails about my name being mentioned. I wish the kid all the luck in the world. I hope he makes it some day.

He's far too small of a player to be known about by even the most avid sports fans in my local area. I'm somewhat aware of at least three more people with my same name, and one with my last name as their first name, and my first name as their last name.... I get their emails all the time; there's literally one letter of difference, as my last name adds an 's' to the name (think Steve vs Stevens... kind of thing. Neither my first nor last name is Steve or Stevens, but it's the same idea).

I've also gotten receipts for motorcycle parts in my name, shipped to someone who is clearly not me... again, for a location that's rather far from me geographically (in my inbox/by email). I've also had my email signed up for several school board mailing lists for counties that again, I don't live in, and have never lived in.... so that's fun. I used to try to email my email-address-neighbor to get the messages to them so they would know there's a problem and call the relevant people to have it fixed. I never recieved a response and the messages never stopped coming, so I tried to unsubscribe, and failing that, made an inbox rule to file them in the round "very important" bin 🗑️

My name is rather unique, so I'm a bit surprised that even this much has happened to me.

I share my name with a former baseball catcher that is most noted for an incident at home plate where he punched a guy that probably deserved it. I rarely get called on it though, he was not that well known, and he has been retired more than a decade.

The names are both common enough that there have been a few other notables with it as well, like the cinematographer that married a fairly high profile Hollywood actress a few years back.

Not much, people always ask me if I'm named after the celebrity.

I assume I am because there's very few other people with my name except him so I guess so.

Only did was climb down a ladder. Which I have also do not many occasions or I guess I'm living up to the name.

My brother shares a first and last name with a semi famous person that is mentioned rarely. Maybe once a year I see a post about him. Whenever I see my brother's name on the internet, it always creeps me out.

Wow, is that your real name?

I'm lucky I don't have a common last name and that nobody cares that I share a very common first name with famous people.

I tried looking up famous people with my last name and the results showed variations of my last name for a while before finally showing mine. Most I've found is some obscure Swedish actress who's probably well known and loved in Europe and someone who apparently got inducted into the motorcycle hall of fame in 2005.

I share a name with a cultural icon from the 90's. As time goes by, younger people don't notice. It was annoying having to say "yeah, I know, I was born before she was famous.." all the time. Older people still make the same tired jokes, over, and over, and over...

There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.

This applies to so many things. For the one person it's a spontaneous one-time joke, for the other it's every time they meet someone new.

I shared a name with a character on 90210. It was pretty annoying for a decade but it's been awhile since anyone has made that comment

OP is named Michael Jordan

• There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don't.
• If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.

What if I am said celebrity though? 🤔

My partner's name is also the name of a very famous (mostly to boomers) multi-grammy award winner. He works in finance and he's gotten the Michael Bolton experience many, many, multiple times. He says its always super awkward, with really bad jokes or people thinking they're being clever with quips like Are you related or Do you have a new album coming out? hurr durr. But he's also never experienced anyone under 50 noticing his name, so its slowly happening less often

My last name is used a lot on movies. There's also been a football player that had nearly the same name and there's a basketball player with the same same name.

For the most part, I just ignore it. But some people are weird about it because they assume I just be related somehow and I'm going to introduce them...

Been there. Idk it doesn't bother me, it bothers more when try sort of apologize mentioning that it probably bothers me.

"Oh sorry everybody must tell you that" Like yeah... and that too 😅.

I don't use it a lot as it's not that famous unless you are into that sport but sometimes when meeting new people I say jokingly (this not the name or the sport but as an example) "Hi, I am Roger Federer but I don't play tennis".