Are you good at remembering names?

I'm really good at remembering names. I think that a large part of that can be attributed to the fact that I assisted in teaching Sunday school for many years when I was a teenager. Because of that, there would be many different names that I would have to remember. Then, since I've been an adult and mother, I've been very involved in playgroups with my children which means that I encounter many different families and I really need to remember their names as well.

No I have often had trouble. I think it can be affected by other stresses and busyness that is happening in my life at the time, sometimes I forget some of my nieces or nephews, or brother in laws names. I get worried sometimes as my dad has alzheimers so there is always the worry that it isn't normal forgetting. I often have bad sinus problems and I think this can also affect my memory. Years ago I worked on a help desk and used to talk to a lot of people in a day. Months later, if they said hello I would have problem remembering them, but if they told me what their problem had been, I could often remember them. I think it was harder to remember them as I had only spoken to a lot of them on the phone and hadn't seen their face.

no, definitely no. Thats why i dont mind asking for names unless its necessary. Hahahaha.. I easily forget and i had embarrassing moments. Ive been working for 3years now and i can only count with my fingers the names that i can recall.

thetis--it is quite fine and natural. we should not forget the names of people with whom we are interacting every day. other than that it is ok. ings did u see the movie Ghazni? In that the hero will remember things only for 15 minutes. So he takes photos of all the people with whom he reacts so that he can see their names written on the reverse. This film ran very well in tamil and hindi also.may be they would have made one in philipine language also.

"Hey man!" , "Hey dude!" that is what I call everyone around me except my close friends. I can't remember some strangers name when I heard it for the first time. I am shame to ask someone for their name for the second time. It is like "Hey Tenzho, Wassup!?" , Then I will like "Hey...man...(Dang what is his name again!!)"

Hi there! i have the same problem. i read a book entitles "understanding others by understanding yourself" (if my memory dictates right). in the book there was a personality test and i did not missed to took the it. i discovered that i am a "popular sanguine" type of person. one of the characteristics of a popular sanguine is having a hard time in remembering names because their interest is not in what they hear but more of in what they see. like, when a popular sanguine meets a person, more often than not forget the person's name but remember where exactly the mole/birth mark in the face of the person they met. there was a time, when i and my friend (macy) was in the mall a lady approached me and ask "hi m---y (my name), still remember me?" i replied, "yes, of course" but i don't remember her name. i introduced her to my friend by saying---- "hey, this is macy and macy this is my classmate in high school(w/o mentioning her name)". then i ask her to save her number in my phone, then that was the only time i remembered her name.. I guess, there are type of person who is forgetful and i believe it's not a problem..

That is a very good question to me. As I get older, I do forget a lot of things. And, the worst of them all is "names", names of people, novels, places visited, and so on. I am really amazed with myself. Now that you have mentioned that you are having the same problem, that makes me feel a bit better. I am not alone after all ! Thank you very much Thetis.

I guess it's just natural for us to forget sometimes the names of the persons whom we haven't encountered or haven't any interaction for a long time. Maybe it's because our consciousness about those persons for a long time became less. I'm also like this and would just ask apology if I couldn't remember well their names. Sometimes it's embarrassing and sometimes that person might get offended because he/she can remember my name but I can't remember her/his name. I think it's easier for me to remember their faces than their names. I also would feel silly.

Not really, but it's only during the first few days. After more time spending with new friends, and getting to know them more, I get used to them and then remember names. But, yeah, I'm no good during the first few. Especially on my organization when new members are introduced, and I don't get to bond with them much.

Hello there. I can say that I am good at remebering names. Just recently, I had met my gradeschool to college classmates and batchmate names and I can still remember them all! :) I always try to remember each person that I had talked or connected and most especially if we had spent some time together.

me too... i found it hard to remember names, specially those who i haven't meet in a long time. I remember their faces and back in the past we used to be playing together but their name is so hard to remember. I remember one time i met my old friend who i haven't met in 3 years, when i met him, smile at him and talk about the past for over half an hour while inside my head i tried to remember his name. Luckily after half an hour his name poped up in my brain so i don't feel stupid because forgeting his name.

I totally sucks at remembering names XD I sucked then and I still sucks now Lol! I'm open and told on practically most discussion that I'm part of this JPop fanbase here and I get to meet quite a lot of people. I remember faces but I simply can't remember names! There's this one time I met this fan somewhere and she called on me. I was with my friends and I simply stared at her. She was smiling and I know she's expecting me to greet her. I really tried to recall her name but I can't XD Instead, I just gave desperate laugh and said "I honestly know your face. I know I met you at this past event but I really can't remember your name! I'm sorry!" and she laughed and told me her name. I REALLY apologized and she said it's ok. We still talk online :D It really amazes me how other people can remember faces AND names :D

Well I also experiencing the same as you. I sometimes tend to easily forgot something that was just told to me even after a few seconds. That's what we called "short term memory" It natural for us to experience that since our brain can only stores data. Sometimes I also having hard time to remember names especially for those people who I just meet once. But I am good in remembering through their faces.

I have a terrible time remembering the names of people I knew a long time ago and those that I've met just recently. What I do when I can't remember the name of someone I clearly should know the name of is I just smile and say, "I know I should know your name, and I've probably asked you what it is before, but could you remind me what it is?" Then I'll reintroduce myself to the other person and we'll get a good chuckle over how neither one of us remembered each others names. I think it's more common than we know!

thetis74 hi oh i am awful at remembering namesand I will go hi Miss uh miss uh and often they will take pity and give their name but sometimes they just make me say I am so sorry but I forgot your name. You have a great idea ask for phone number and ask what shall I write here? thats a neat idea. lol lol lol

Didn't used to be a problem, but now when I meet somebody, unless I repeat the name several times, it's in and out of my brain so fast, I don't know what hit me. I don't forget names that I've learned before though. Once they're in, they're in.

Hhahah.... the same problem with me when I forget my students name then I call them hello hero pay attention here, hello smart girl pay attention here then they say me ohh madam please call us by name then I tell them ohh my dear student my member is loss so I cant remember your name.

every time i save my friends name or classmates name over my phone,i put on their complete names because i tend to forgot afterward.. this always happen to me every time me and friends (former classmates) meet up and we discuss about our other classmates... i always find it hard to recall who they are talking too.. like, Jenny?... Jenny?... they would say,, common keith, its Jenny Ariza... then i would feel awkward... now that's why i completely save up their names.. also in times that i feel i would really be embarrassed because i don't know his or her name, i try to ask some one closest and ask silently who his or her name is... but in times when im alone and has no one to ask and i meet up with someone i know from the past and i couldn't recall his or her name, i try my best to converse to him or her without saying his or her name.. its as if i know his or her name all through out our conversation, then i will do a research afterwards using facebook as to who he or she was..

Oh my goodness! Remembering names is my major weakness. It's really embarrassing! Especially when you bump into these "forgotten faces" and then they chat you up, and I can't even introduce them to the one I'm with at the time. So what do it do? I just don't introduce them to one another. I know...it's rude. But I don't want to embarrass anyone else any further. :(

hi:) I have problems in remembering names too,especially when I already saw them once or just been introduced by friends, but I can easily remember their looks, I just hope I'm more better in remembering their names too, because it's embarrassing to ask their name again because they might think that I am not interested in knowing them because I forget their names.