It wasn't me who won a car
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381760)
Rockingham, Australia
October 19, 2024 7:36pm CST
A friend of Vince’s emailed to say someone with my name had won a car on Telethon. Unfortunately it wasn’t me which is a bit of a shame but good luck to the winner.
I’m always amazed when I search Facebook at how many others share the name I’m looking for. There are few people that I’ve searched for that don’t have at least one other person with the same name. Even names with odd spellings come up more than once.
Do you know how many others share your name?
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
20 Oct 24
My last name is German and it seems that there are only 2 families in my country with that last name. Yet there is a person with my same first namein the other family.

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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
20 Oct 24
@JudyEv Sometimes first names get very popular at a certain time. I named my youngest daughter after my first doll and it seemed that everyone that year named their baby girls that way.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Oct 24
@marguicha I think my sister might have been names after Shirley Temple but that is only a guess. My sister was born in 1938.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
20 Oct 24
Too many, oddly enough...
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
20 Oct 24
@JudyEv Przeklasa, not Smith, Jones, nor evan Evans.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Oct 24
@BarBaraPrz Is Przeklasa Polish? We had a lot of Polish children in our school. Their parents emigrated to Australia after WWII.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
20 Oct 24
Aw..wish you had won it though.
No..no one has my name..it is very old Sicilian.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Oct 24
I'm glad my name is rather rare. Evelyn is pretty old-fashioned. The York name however is way too common. My real last name I have only seen on other time anywhere besides the family.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Oct 24
@JudyEv ........Thanks. Yes, it is. I could have changed back to my maiden name but I like the history behind it.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
21 Oct 24
I was named after my paternal grand mother and one of my classmaes shared it. But she is no more.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Oct 24
There are at least two other people called Judith/Judy in the village.
@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
20 Oct 24
I worked at UPS during holiday rush and was surprised to see they had someone else with my name working there. Karen’s not that common a name, and my last name is not common, either.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
20 Oct 24
There were 3 others with my name when I married.
I was kind of happy to change my last name.
There has been 1 of those 3 that has passed, but someone married another one with my first name, and with my maiden name the tally remains at 3.
With my married name, I felt secure that nobody shared my first and last name.
Then a brother-in-law divorced and took up common law with a woman named Julia.
Thankfully, his brothers and sisters decided that they did not like her for a host of reasons, and began to call me Aunt Julia, and the next generation does the same. She never adopted our last name, although they have been together long enough that she legally could.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
21 Oct 24
@JudyEv It is. There are a lot here with that last name
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Oct 24
Nope, mine is very individual in the US and only my first name is common in Latvia,
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Oct 24
My maiden name was Candy but there aren't too many of them around in my state. I think there are distant relations in the east.
@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
20 Oct 24
I think several. There are even quite a few that have my same middle name.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
20 Oct 24
I don't personally know anyone who shares my name, but when I first moved to the city I live in many years ago, there was another guy here who had my same name. He was some sort of handyman, and I'd always get phone calls from people looking for him to hire to fix things around their homes. I used to joke with my wife at the time that I could earn a few extra dollars taking on all these jobs that people would call for.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Oct 24
In Esperance, there was another Vince Evans, a general carrier. People were always ringing up wanting boxes of Coca Cola or Sprite delivered. lol
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
20 Oct 24
Very few. The one coincidence is someone with my name who lives very close to us. She's a distant cousin of my husband's I think. I used to get her test results, etc. There was an article in the local paper about the Rare Cherry Disco. It said that Linda ____ was dancing at the Rare Cherry. Everyone thought it was me!!! Have a good day.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
20 Oct 24
There are many who share my Chinese name.
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