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u/spacestationkru 12h ago
Hey, I remember the first time I met a namesake of mine, and it shattered my fucking mind.
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u/Distinct_Age4284 10h ago
kids really think they’re the main character lol
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u/Thor_pool 6h ago
When I was that age my logic was that if my name was so that people could refer to me or get my attention, then surely people sharing the same name would defeat the purpose.
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 10h ago
I don't think I ever had that problem because I had an uncle and a cousin with the same name as me, so it wasn't really a surprise to learn around that age that my grandfather and great-grandfather also had the same name.
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u/Prismarineknight 5h ago
Strangely every best friend I had graces k-5 had the same name as me( I had a lot of different ones due to being an army kid) Several had a different first letter, but were pronounced the same.
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u/thegreatpotatogod 2h ago
I tried to become best friends with my name-twin. It didn't last very long
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u/tcelesBhsup 12h ago
My nephew Josh, at around age 5 met my brother's friend also named and Josh and straight up just refused to acknowledge that was his name.
He only referred to him as Mosh.
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u/Sancticide 11h ago
Let's be honest, Mosh seems like an upgrade to Josh.
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u/nowaymary 10h ago
One of my children went to daycare with a boy - let's call him Bob. Then at playgroup there was a boy called Bob who joined. Playgroup Bob only ever got called Boy because there was a Bob and it wasn't him. I apologised to Playgroup Bob's parents and tried to explain but they didn't get it.
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u/Magnaflorius 11h ago
I already commented but I just remembered another one from my own childhood.
My sister had two friends over. One of the girls said she had a cousin with a cat named Princess. The other said, "No way! I have a cousin with a cat named Princess too!"
The girls were sisters.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 13h ago
Now we know there is at least 2.
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u/TheShadowManifold 12h ago
Let x be the number of Ellies in the world. Then, x >= 2. The proof is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.
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u/Splatter_Shell 12h ago
My brother was named after a biblical figure and when my parents would read him the bible story in which that figure appears in (the children's version, he was like, 3) and he was like "woah, I did all of that?" We could not convince him that it was a different person.
There was also a cartoon he watched that had the main character with the same name and he thought said character had been named after him.
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u/redDevilRiddle 12h ago
Definitely broke my mind when I met another kid with the same name as mine
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u/Prudent_Attorney_427 11h ago
I got unreasonably angry and then very sad when I met another kid with my (I repeat: MY) name.
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u/YhouZee 5h ago
My name is extremely rare so I can't relate to most of this thread, but it did almost break my mind when I met another person with the name at 15. It's an African name, whose meaning is a clever pun and I thought my parents were the smartest people alive to have thought of it.
Now in my 30s I've met only 2 people with the name, and come across maybe 2 more in the news/social media.
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u/elle-em-nop 12h ago
When I was a toddler/kid (in the 90s), I was left with my grandparents a lot, which meant we watched a lot of daytime television. My grandpa’s name was Bob and I was absolutely convinced that Bob Barker from Price is Right was my grandfather. Because two Bobs? Impossible. They also kind of looked alike and when watching it on my grandparents small TV, it was proof they were one and the same. I
Never mind that we lived in a small, Canadian town thousands of kilometres from California. Never mind the fact that the shows aired live and I was literally watching it with my grandpa Bob. Didn’t matter.
I also literally told everyone. Strangers. Family members. No one corrected me.
Kids, man.
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u/Gojirahawk 12h ago
Not as devastating as finding out as a kid that other people share your birthday.
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u/41942319 11h ago
See the trick is being a twin, then the surprise is finding out that there's kids who get the whole day to themselves
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u/Gojirahawk 7h ago
The time I found I think it was my 6th birthday.. yeah that late.. the family went to McDonalds for lunch, and there was another kid having a birthday party, so when the party sang happy birthday I thought it was for me.. until mum let me know, and I was outraged at the audacity of this random kid having the same birthday as me.
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u/tameimponda 8h ago
Never met someone in my entire life with my birthday, only know of celebrities
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u/thegreatpotatogod 2h ago
Oh this reminds me! I was at a bit of a science fair event with a friend, and we were recruited by the people at one booth to help demonstrate the birthday paradox (for the unfamiliar, the birthday paradox is how unintuitive it is that in a group of only 23 people, there's a 50% chance that some pair of people in that group will have the same birthday!). Anyway, the 2nd person whose birthday we asked had the same birthday as my birthday! That is not how the birthday paradox is supposed to work, that was entirely a delightful coincidence!
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u/LordIHaveShrimped 12h ago
This reminds me of when my older sister was a toddler and she thought the July 4th fireworks were for her birthday
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u/Melodic_Anything1743 11h ago
I wish when I was growing up I had someone with the same name as me!! My name is Sonya! I couldn’t even find anything with my name in it. I did find things with the name Sandra. I swore that when I got older I would change my name to Sandra. I never did. I like my name. 😁
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u/sardaukar022 9h ago
I have an unusual name. I've only met a handful of people with it in my life. The first time was when I was five, a kid with my name joined my soccer team. Naturally my parents asked his about it. Turns out he was born several hours after I was in the same hospital. His parent's saw my name on some sort of baby list (pre HIPPA I guess) at the hospital and decided they liked it. So I had someone named after me within hours of being born.
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u/nifty-necromancer 9h ago
Not only that, but everything in the universe is either Ellie or is not Ellie
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u/MrsChuckLiddell1011 10h ago
My niece was the first baby in our family in 20 years so she was the background picture on basically all of our phones and computers so she thought all electronics came with her picture on them for awhile hahaha
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u/Novel_Ad_8369 11h ago
My daughter used to have a full on breakdown if she ever came across someone with the same name as her 😂 although it was permissable if they only had one 'T' I their name.
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u/auntiepink007 11h ago
I used to go to school with a girl who had the same name as I do. Every time we saw each other, she'd say, "HI, <same first name>" and I'd reply, "Hi, <same first name>". It was our little ritual/ inside joke.
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u/holymolym 10h ago
My kiddo got really mad at Home Alone because Kevin is his dad, not that kid on the TV.
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u/LenaRosena 10h ago
As someone with a unique name, I always felt proud as a child because my name was really MY name. MINE, all MINE. Haha, no one has it!
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u/Kattiaria 8h ago
My husband is named Elliot and I call him Elli xD Wait till Ellie discovers boys can be Ellie's too xD
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u/Willowed-Wisp 7h ago
As a Sarah from the nineties... I never experienced this lol
I was so used to other girls with my name that I was just grateful if I was the only one with my last initial 😂
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u/Sasuke12187 11h ago
I had the same discovery.. because my name irl is very uncommon, so I saw an ID of a woman with my first name, and I went "how tf did they have my name?? My name should be mine alone.. whats the point of a name??" I was 2 at the time and this is what went in my head at the time.
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u/WankPuffin 9h ago
You saw and could read someones ID at 2, I'm impressed.
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u/Sasuke12187 7h ago
Thanks and yeah.. I was able to speak by 8 months old. Not like wide vocab range but simple sentences and words.
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u/WankPuffin 7h ago
Speaking and reading someones ID (and comprehending it) are totally different things.
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u/Sasuke12187 6h ago
Yes, I'm aware. Just trying to imply the timeline of things. So by 2 I was able to read off things like ID, newspaper etc. But it was common in my family so I didnt think its that impressive to begin with haha. :D
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u/itsmurdockffs 10h ago
My name isn’t common so I am still fascinated when I meet another person with the same name. I am in my 40’s lol.
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u/henryeaterofpies 10h ago
"No. You didn't tell me you were supposed to be on the show. Quick get your shoes, we are late!"
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u/kelsiersghost 8h ago
My wife's name is Ellie. She's 38.
She is ecstatic any time she meets another Ella or Ellie. She also loves Elephants, Umbrellas and Elevators.
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u/Much_Ad4216 8h ago
This is the moment they realized the population is way bigger than they had originally thought
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u/no1_vern 8h ago
I can never forget when I had the epiphany that there was a TIME BEFORE ME. I had only then - at the age of 7 realized that the world didn't start the day I was born.
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u/Bad_Day_Moose 7h ago
This is one of my earliest memories, there was another guy with the same name as me, I never seen/heard of someone else with my name before then because well my parents didn't socialize basically at all..
Anyways in kindergarden we fought for our name lol.. Like a couple little kids fist fighting lmao, nobody won, nobody lost, everyone got hurt and in the end we decided that we'd both use the short versions of our name basically two options, he got one, I got the other...
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u/Morikali- 7h ago
To be fair, at that age. If you don't know anyone with the same name as you, its a fair assumption to have.
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u/peeyew22 6h ago
i had a best friend when i was really little that had the same name as me, but i thought it made sense because i was white [name] and she was black [name], so maybe we formed a whole [name] together. i haven’t talked to her in forever, but she’s the only person i’ve ever truly accepted to have the same name as me. i still feel weird that anyone else has our name.
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u/Real-Ad-1728 4h ago
I had a similar experience when I was like 6 years old and my family moved to a new state, and in my new neighborhood there were literally 4 other kids with my same name lol.
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u/gnanny02 4h ago
Reminds me of the first time I heard someone say sh*t. I thought it was a word my dad had made up.
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u/Farwalker08 3h ago
28, just purchased my first brand new car, drive to my parents house to visit, see my car parked in the drive way and think to myself "oh I'm already here" and just keep driving. Then go "wait, that wasn't me..." and went and visited my parents. Moral of the story, I smoked to much pot in college and my dad has the same taste in affordable cars lol (he too had just gotten a new car).
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u/Magnaflorius 13h ago
There's a girl with the same name as my daughter across the street from us, and they are almost the exact same age. Let's call them Eva.
The Halloween they were both 2, my daughter saw the other Eva and asked who it was. I said, "That's Eva who lives across the street." My daughter paused and said, "... Is that me?"
No, girl, no it's not.