My Improvisation troupe has three Andrews. We also have me, whose real name is Nathaniel but everyone calls me Tim, and someone new whose REAL name is Tim. We can't decide whether to call him Tim 2.0, Nathaniel, or Tim.

Some call you...Tim?

Take a fourth option and call him Natimiel.

A few years ago, @/RedneckRocker was taking a class where there were two other individuals with the same first name as myself. The solution? I started going by a different name (Jack, as a reference to both Comicbook/{{Starman}} and the legendary artist) to make it easier on people.

This troper had five girls in her class called Katie. After the first couple of weeks, we dropped the whole Katie F, Katie M thing and started calling them all Katie. It worked.

ARRRGH!!! THIS is why I prefer to have people just call me "Kat"! My parents had NO idea the name would suddenly be so common when they named me! For a while, we called it the "Secret Club of Katies", but somewhere along the line we decided it wasn't funny anymore. Made worse because there's someone who works at a store we shop at so often that they started writing our names on some of the bread order and not letting anyone else buy it because they know we will who is also named Katie, so when I come in on a conversation and they're saying something about "Katie" I start to wonder if they're talking about me, but can never be sure until they mention my crappy laptop or her job at the store. And I often have to go by Katana-the-Cat on various sites because Katana is already taken, I like cats, and I've been going by Katana for a while.

In my form class we had 4 Andrews (I was one). It was decided that it wouldn be simpler to call one Andy, one Drew, one Andrew but we none of us responded to anything but Andrew. At our Prom, we were all still being confused.

Something similar happened in Da_Nuke's high school homeroom, which had three guys called Andrés. It wasn't too bad, though, because Mexican custom here is to address them by their family names instead.

Also happened in Da_Nuke's college major, which has a total of ''four'' Oscars. The confusion was removed by calling one "Oscar", calling another by his nickname "Mosca", calling another "Oscarcita" (kinda like "Little Miss Oscar"), and calling the eldest one "Don Oscar".

This troper wishes his friends had that much difference in first names. Try one case of 7 people sharing the same name at the same time. That wasn't the only one, either, as most people's first names and sometimes middle names tended to be shared by 2-4 other people at minimum. Size of group? ~30. Nicknames were a given.

This troper has a friend who is also named (and called) Brian. We haven't had any problems with it for years.

This troper had a friend named Brian and another named Bryan. I called them by their last names, but no one else had a problem with the duality.

This troper happens to be named Alex, and he currently is friends with ''seven'' other Alexes, three of which he sees or converses with on a regular basis. No problems here.

You think that's bad there's over thrity Alex's in my catholic school, including myself. We tend to go by our last names.

This troper was the last of fourteen Jennifers in her high school class, and half of them were all in the same class at once at one point in time. This troper refers to her clone-name confederates as "Other Jennifer" and "Other Other Jennifer."

This troper and her best friend share the name Jessica. Our friends use our nicknames, but acquaintances tend to fall back on "Blonde Jess" and "Brunette Jess", or "the Jessicas" if they need both of us. We call each other "Plural", which confuses people even more.

This troper had a noahs ark of names with 2 Ryans, 2 Stephens, 2 Elizabeths, and a pair of siblings with the same last name.

This Troper is writing a short story where a boy moves to a town where everyone is a Stepford Smiling "perfect person", and they're all named "John Smith", "Jane Smith", "John Smith Jr.", or "Jane Smith Jr.". It's an alien conspiracy, of course.

In Korea, 1/2 of people's surname is either Lee, Park, or Kim. Add in Choi and it rises to nearly 2/3. Yet this troper has noticed that when you say one Lee, people seem to know which Lee you're talking about from context. At least everyone ''else'' does.

This troper is near the end of a year's tour of duty in Korea, with about ten Korean soldiers who live and work with us. The context is usually that they work in different sections of the company. So we have PLL Lee, Orderly Room Lee, Net Ops Lee . . .

That's not the worst of it. Apparently, 40% of Vietnamese surnames is Nguyen.

This troper has actually encountered a Nguyen Nguyen.

This Troper had two Kari Ws in his class in third grade, and two of his college friends, who were roommates, were both Michael H. They became Mike and Karate Mike. Because being a Black Belt is a good way to identify someone.

Part of this humble contributor's high school crowd included two Stephens (of which I was one) and a guy whose family name was Stephens.

At college this troper knew four guys called Dave, they ended up getting assigned nicknames to keep it clear.

In this troper's class there were two Mikes, one named Michael Hurley, the other Michael O'Connor. Luckily, O'Connor bore a vague resemblance to Hurley from Lost, so they just called him Hurley, and called Mike Hurley "Mike"

This troper's high school class had four guys called Henrik. It wouldn't've been quite so bad if Henrik Hermansson and Henrik Henriksson hadn't been inseparable best friends.

This troper is one of the 1-in-20 Americans who named "Christopher", "Christine", "Christina" or XTremeKoolLetterz variants thereof ("Kristine", "Krystyfyr", etc). To expedite matters, he has started answering to "Patricia" as well: after all, there's rarely more than one of those.

This troper is very used to being the only Jeff in all of his classes. In senior year of high school, however, somehow all of the other Jeffs ended up in the same classes together and were all equally confused when the teacher called their name and several boys answered instead of one.

@/DarkInsanity13's mother once had this sort of thing happen as a joke, sort of. Her name is Laurie. She walked into the reception of the orthodontist, and greeted the receptionist, who was also named Lori. Then she greeted a friend of hers, also named Lauri. And so, it went: "Hello Lori." "Hello Laurie." "Hello Lauri." "Hello Laurie." "Hello Lori." "Hello Lauri."

Some groups take it to extremes, the excessive number of Daves when this troper was growing up resulted in the running joke of troper's entire social group claiming to be called Dave, this caused problems for the actual Daves who had to explain that no really that actually was their name and they weren't just extending the joke.

For some reason, this troper frequently met one other person named Michael at school... and quickly became friends with them. Then I went to college, only to discover that my college has an abundance of Michaels - and for some reason, the seemingly obvious solution of using last names is almost completely unknown. Nicknames are more common - I adopted the nickname of "Seattle" after my home city.

An unusual solution in one case was a French class which I shared with my friend, Michael. As usual, the teacher planned to refer to us by our equivalent names in French, but having two Michaels was a problem. Her solution was to call the other Michael by his English name, while I would answer to Michel.

Both of my father's college friends are named Chris. So are my father, my great-uncle, and two of my cousins. As a bonus, if I had been a boy I would have been named "Christopher." My extended family also boasts four Kathryns, one for each generation (great-grandmother, grandmother, aunt, sister) and three Michaels (grandfather, uncle, cousin). Family get-togethers get interesting sometimes.

A running gag in this troper's family and circle of friends is that ''everybody'' has a friend named Cory. To make matters funnier, "this troper's" Cory has both a best friend ''and'' a girlfriend named Megan. That must make conversations interesting.

This troper works at a very small summer camp where there are about 100 people each session and at least eight Saras, three Ethans, and a handful of Eli's each session. After a while, we came up with a nickname for nearly all of them, but it took quite a while. That's not even counting the time there were three Mattans in one tent. We're still trying to figure out how that happened.

The group of people this troper hangs out with includes two Aarons, two Sarahs, three people who answer to "Sam", and for good measure an Alex who looks like Sam's Chaotic Twin. If that wasn't bad enough, now Aaron and Sarah are being shipped by the rest of the group. Which Aaron and Sarah? No one knows.

All my aunts on one side of the family are named Laura or Susan. (One daughter named Laura, her four brothers all married Lauras or Susans.)

@/TromboneChild's extended family on her mother's side contains two Peters, two Lukes, two Emmas, two Annes, two Mollys, two Marks, two Andrews, three Daniels, and six Jims. Mostly we just use last names to distinguish them, except for the Andrews, since the older one goes by "Drew" and the other goes by "Andrew," and the Annes because one is my Grandma, so she's "Grandma," "Mom," or "Big Anne" and the other one is "Aunt Anne" or just "Anne." The names that have the biggest problems are the Peters because the younger Peter always thinks they're referring to him, and the Daniels because two of them are "Uncle Dan" (the baby is "Baby Danny"). My dad is one of the Dans, so I call my uncle "Uncle Danny," as do my brother and sister. My mom calls him "Danny" because she thinks of her husband when she says "Dan."

This troper's algebra II class has two Matt R's and two Alex's. The Alex's both sit next to each other. His drama club/thespian troupe also has two Kaley's. Since one is white and one is half black, half white, we call them "Kaley White" and "Kaley Brown".

This troper was in high school homeroom with two cousins both named Kristen who had been dealing with this their whole lives. They went by Kristen B. and Kristen M. . Post high school they planned to go to the same college, and even room together.

Similarly, @/HeraldAlberich's high school class included two (unrelated) Michaels that also shared a last name, and were distinguished, especially over the PA system, by middle initial.

This troper was in a play with a castmate named Jeff. Later another Jeff joined the cast, who was immediately dubbed "New Jeff." As opening neared some musicians were added, including one named Jeff. @/RandomSurfer decided to call him "Diet Jeff with Lemon" and rename Jeff "Jeff Classic," but everyone else just called them "Jeff" and "Jeff the musician."

I like your sense of humor.

this troper was once in a history class where we had four ryans. i was not one of them but i was friends with at least three of them. the worst part though is that we were arranged into our seats alphabetically by first name. so one row had four ryans in it. and it was a front to back row, not a left to right row, so pointing didnt work. needless to say much confusion ensued.

@/DokEnkephalin was one of three Jasons in kindergarten, one of ''six'' Jasons in 1st grade, and then found out gleefully that his real first name on his birth certificate was one that no one else had, and claimed it as soon as possible.

This troper manages to avert and subvert this at the same time. His full name is Alexander Gonzalez. A common first name, but only common in English, along with a hilariously common name in Spanish makes for a relatively unique name. It's still not ''that'' unique, unfortunately.

This troper knows three Adams. Previously just two, which was easy. when the third came around we named them after their last names. Forgetting that last part and saying "Adam" results in CONFUSION UP IN THIS SHIZZLE.

This troper had seven Seans in his grade (including himself), between two and six shared classes, and three were in football. None used nicknames. To this day no one knows how there was never any confusion, particularly because we all knew each other to some extent. We could even talk about each other and just from inflection figure out which Sean was which.

This troper tends to categorize (mentally and in conversation) her PlanetOfSteves groups by either relationship, hobby, or context -- for example, Brother Jacob, Robot Jacob, and Ragtime Jake, or Brother John, Johnny Across the Street, Mr. John, and Uncle John. She's nicknamed her brother's two best friends Proper Alex and Other Alex. When it comes to ''other'' Other Alexes (Neocon Alex, Al Alex, Journalism Alex, Friend's Brother Alex, and Girl Alex)...well, sometimes last names and/or middle initials are necessary.

Been there myself. I worked at a movie theater during summers while I was in college, and one year there were FIVE Matthews on the staff. It got to where anyone needing an extra pair of hands yelled for "MATT!". My classes at college were no exception: one class had four Steves and three Amys; in another, I was one of two Matthews. One of the Residence Life staff said she could almost round up her section of the dorm by yelling for "Jennifer, Amy, Tonya, and Sharon."

Same troper. I found another example in the local ham radio club: Bob and Jim account for around half the members. Again I'm one of two Matthews. The call signs make things MUCH easier!

In @/KingSonnDeeDoo's old class, there were three Jonathans. Things got avterted though, in that one like to be called Jon, another liked to be called Johnny, and we all just refered to the third one by his last name 'Edridge', which got shortened down to 'Ed'.

At this troper's college there are two people named Steve and three people named Amy with two sharing the same middle name.

In the circle of friends that hang out at a local gaming store, there are no less than 4 Steves, 3 of which are in the same fantasy baseball league. No one knows their last names either, so it can be rather confusing.

I was once in a cub scout group with another Jonathan. He was older than me, so he was called "Big Jonathan", while I was "Little Jonathan". I find it ironic that I'm now bigger than he was. --{{Jonn}}

I have 3 Lewises in my English class, me included. Our English teacher has resorted to "Little Lewis", "Medium Lewis"(me), and "Big Lewis".We have a similar problem in other classes, where a FOURTH Lewis joins in.There's Lewis Agnew, Lewis Bolland (me again), Lewis Coule and Lewis...Johnson.I think of him as Lewis Donson so that he fits.A,B,C and D!

Scott the dick? I have three of them, thank you.

This troper had 3 Michael Zs in her old school. All in the same grade. It was slightly confusing.

At an anime convention, this Troper's found group included several people dressed as L, including this troper. So, even around others, we refered to each of them as "L". Surprisingly, nither the Ls, nor the non-Ls in the group ever were confused about which L we meant, even when several were referenced at once.

In the stage crew for this Troper's old school (although, you never leave the tech crew at this school. People come back year after year to help with the summer concert.) there were multiple people called James, a few called Chris, and a couple of Daniels. Unsurprisingly, most got nicknames. All except one of the Daniels - he was scary, so he got to keep being called Dan.

It's still fun to yell out "Oi, James!" when standing in the middle of the school hall. You get an answer in surround sound.

@/{{Aeiouna}} remembers her seventh grade social studies class being referred to as the "class of the Michaels and Jessicas," since there were six of each in the class.

One of this troper's primary school teachers was hopeless at remembering children's names (as she taught music to every class in the school, she had to remember a lot more than 30 names), and so would most often just call anyone she was talking to "Fred", regardless of their real name (or whether the kid was a boy or girl); and yet, neither she nor us children ever got confused as to whom she was talking.

This troper has a friend who, when pulling a FullNameUltimatum, always refers to someone as "Blank Marie Blank". Whether or not it's a boy or girl, even if she does know his/her middle name.

This troper regards not being the only Sam around as a RunningGag. Mostly short for Samuel, as you'd expect, but the most-recently-met one is an Osama.

This Troper's year has five Toms, all in his half. This leads to mass confusion, and at least one time when all five of us have turned round, at the same time.

This troper went on holiday once with two other people with the same name as him. A ''drinking'' holiday. This confused the hell out of the fourth person we brought along, who didn't share our names.

This troper became so frustrated with having such a common name that at the age of eleven she insisted upon being called Butterfly everywhere (camp, school, dance class, her theater group) but with her family. She was quite pleased to discover that, although about fifty-thousand-zillion other people in the world share her actual given name, she has yet to run into another 'Butterfly.'

@/AuntZelda recalls attending a camp where there was a plethora of Emilys one summer. One of the counselor-Emilys received various nicknames, such as 'Eggo,' so as not to confuse her with the camper-Emilys.

Until recently,this troper lived with another Colin. Another housemate worked with a Colin,and we also knew a Corin. The whole "Colin!" "Yes?" "No,the other Colin" started wearing thin after the second year,and it was something of a relief when he moved out. Now it's the summer holidays and I'm back home,staying with my mother. My sister comes around often,usually accompanied by her partner. Guess what he's called. [[spoiler:Colm]]. HereWeGoAgain -- @/AckSed

This troper is actually pretty annoying for people named Steve (or any applicable name in the scenario). One day this troper got bored and he counted the number of times his first name showed up in his grade. He lost count after eleven or so.

The above troper's parents always apologize profusely whenever he mentions his annoyance at this troper. "We didn't know it was so popular!" they said. Well, it didn't help that this troper was born in ''January'', so a current baby book with popular names by year wouldn't really help much.

Seriously, when the teacher calls role and you're used to it, you ''still'' jump up when you hear your name. It's frickin' annoying.

This troper has a different case where, instead of names, it's appearance: In his high school science class there were about six boys who, despite being completely unrelated and having different names, all looked eerily alike- same hair, same height, same build... I could never tell them apart.

Imagine a class with two Ashleys, a Caitlin and a Kaitlyn, and three Tylers. Now imagine the Tylers' last initials are D, T, and P. Now imagine the above in a ''kindergarten class''. The teacher was not happy. And then, years later, the kindergarten class includes two Noahs, two Michaels, a Maria, a Mary, and a Mary Kate.

At least there wasn't a MarySue! (Collective Groan)

Emily has been the most popular baby girl name for years running. Emily was the second most popular name at her alma mater. And now, out in the real world, @/RiL encounters other Emilys her age on a daily basis. Thanks, Mom and Dad! I'm unique and special, ''just like everyone else.''

This troper is one of three Thomases in one of his college courses. The professor refers to one by full name, one as Thomas, and one as Tom.

Averted by this troper during a summer trip. The three of us and one of the counselors on the trip were referred to as Dan, Danny, Daniel, and Daniella.

This troper is still not used to having so many people with the same name as him (Ironically, it's actually Steve). He constantly insists that the proper solution is for every OTHER Steve to change his name to Ted, so that he doesn't have to be part of the confusion.

This troper has been in more than one class over his school life with kids in his class that have the same first name.

For some reason, this tropers teachers, when using the computer to randomize the seating charts, always seem to place me next to all of the other Travis's in the classroom. *And the other Travis's are not good company, let me tell you.*

My Graduating class has four Taylors [in 8th grade, all were in my science class], two Jessicas, two Morgans, two Kaylas, two Elizabeths [I know like four though], and other pairs of names. Often, the Taylors and Jessicas appear in the same classes. In my general experience, I *KNOW/have been friends with* six Brandons [yeah, holy shit, amirite? though context makes it pretty obvious], at least six Jacobs[one is spelled with a K though (and is called Timmy), and another we all call Bucky], three Kelsies [all spelled differently], six Kates [two Katherines, two Kaitlyns, one Katelin (I think), one unspecified spelling], three Jordans [one was a girl though], and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment. These were all just off the top of my head.

@/DeltaOne was on a church mission in South Africa. 150 people, and four of them were called Smith. One was a girl, so that wasn't so bad, but the other three were all J. Smith. Missionaries refer to each other by the last name. They became Old Smith, Young Smith and Even Younger Smith.

This troper was one of three Justins in one of my high school classes. The interesting thing is that, at one point, the seating arrangement was such that we were sitting diagonally from each other. One more and Sis would have won (Connect Four joke for those who didnt get that. Sorry.)

In This Troper's year, there are about four Jess(ica)s, four Chris(topher)s, four Megans, and two Kais (one male, one female). Most of each group of people are acquainted with each other.

This Troper knows six Josh's and five Matt's, most of which go to the same church.

Damn, you've all beaten me. Out of the four Brocks at our school, three of them are in my grade. Two of them are almost always in the same classes. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.

This troper once worked in a department containing seven Marys. We liked to joke that if you ever forgot a woman's name there, just call her Mary and chances were you'd be right.

Both of this Troper's aunts have married someone named Brian. To avoid getting confused we just refer to them as 'Aunt's first name's Brian' which makes it easier.

This troper has two aunts named Ana Cristina, one by blood (mother's sister) other by marriage (uncle's wife). Luckily, one is known by the middle name, the other by the first. In school, he's seen situations where a name was shared... but no one was primarily known for it: in Elementary/High School, two Andres known by surnames, and two Paulos known by nicknames; in College, two Pedros, one known by the surname, other by a nickname. In College, his class has three "Jus" - two Julias (to distinguish, one had her father's company name added, and the other - before abandoning the dye - "Blonde") and a Juliana; among his freshmen is a class with three Pedros. The major once drafted a Team of Steves: out of 18 players, 4 repeated names - two Guilhermes (both known as "Gui"), two Gabriels (one known by surname), two Henriques (one known by nickname... and both were goalkeepers!), and two Felipes (one known by surname). And let's not get started on people named "Ana" (which only doesn't get more complicated because in Brazil it's usually a composite name). :And a weird case: my college has two people known as "Jesus", one because he looks like Him, and the other because his online handle is [[GreenDay Jesus of Suburbia.]]

My (Matthew's) scout troup contains two Erics, two Johns (one without the H), and more other Matthews then I care to count. What did I do to prevent confusion? I just changed my name to Eric.

Lots of examples here: This troper's boyfriend is technically Antony Lastname III, but his grandad claimed Antony and his father got Tony, so he himself uses a nickname of a nickname of his middle name. Yeah.

And our current roleplaying group has two Chrises, one of whom is Big and the other of whom is Hairy. It doesn't help that Big is actually hairier than Hairy by most standards.

''And'' at one point the university Anime Society (of whom all of the above are members) had no fewer than ''four'' people called Ash - distinguished as Black Ash, White Ash, Female Ash, and Ashley.

This troper was in a camp group once where there were three people with the same name as her. Not too bad. Except that this troper's name is ''Madeleine'' and she'd only even ever ''met'' one other person her age with the same name!

First and second generations of Korean parents in America were horrifically likely to pick the same names for their kids. Determined to give their kids American names, the parents probably picked something out of the Bible or some other extremely generic names. To make things worse, if you're Korean, chances are your last name is Lee or Kim. Thus, I have met so many frickin' people with the same names, the cake going to Kevin Kim (I've met ''six'' in my life). Thankfully, me and my siblings somewhat avoid this problem as one) our last name isn't that common and spelled differently to boot and two) our parents didn't name us, but a friend who had already been living in America for some time.

It was only recently that this troper's university's computer science department contained more females than Daves.

This Troper knows 3 people named Chris and one of them has a friend called Crystal, who is known as Chris and also Christina, 4 named Lisa, 3 Steves (Steve, Stevie and Stephen), 3 Rachels (although one is called Rachael), 4 called Ian, and 4 named Catherine and 5 named Jon. I also know two people named Patricia, one goes by her full name, and the other hates being called Patricia and prefers Trisha. I also know Laura, Lauren (who shares a birthday with Laura) and another Lauren who is either Loz, Little Lauren or called by her middle name.Then theres my class, which has 2 girls named Isabella, and also Kayden/Jaden and Kiera/Kara. Its pretty confusing. I also went to primary school with two others who shared my first name.

To avoid confusion, my school has Jimmy, Jamie, James, Jim, and James. But we call the last one Jam.

This Troper once worked at a summer camp with quite a few repeat names on the staff. This included two Stephens, two Bills (who were coincidentally the camp and program directors, and thus the two highest ranking people around), two guys nicknamed Fuzzy, and FIVE Andrews (fortunately all but one of them had a nickname).

Five out of the ten cheerleaders at this troper's high school -- that's right, ''half the squad'' -- were named Ashley.

This troper had 4 Jessica's, 3 Katies and 5 Emiliy's in her old class.

Yeesh. This Troper has a class in which there are two Jacks, but the prize go to the Chippys. One's called Josh, the other's called Jack (not the same as the other two), Josh is from school, Jack is from Scouts. Josh is "Chippy", but Jack is "Chipmunk", which gets shortened to - guess what? - "Chippy"!

Not sure if this counts, but this is the closest trope I think. Whenever this Troper can't think of someone's name off the top of his head, he refers to them as "Skippy" if they're a guy and "Susan" if they're a girl. Sometimes I'll forget more than one persons name, and yet people can still tell which of the two or three Skippys I'm talking to.

In grade school we had two Rebecca's (although one was spelt differently than the other), two Ashley's, two Steven's and two Cody's. Neither the Rebecca's or the Ashley's had nicknames but one of the Steven's went by Steve and the Cody's went by their last names.

On a big church retreat, there were three Ians (that were actually numbered; I was Ian #1), three Katies, two Amandas, two Emilys (I think), two Michaels, an Alex, an Alexx, an Adrian and an Adrienne.

Then, in Drama Club, during ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'', there were three Bens (one of whom played Benny), two Ians and an Ethan. I add Ethan in, because our director could not remember who was Ian and who was Ethan.

This troper has a teacher who refers to everyone by last name, rather than first name. Whilst the other teacher have no problems with who's who, he struggles with 5 Smiths and 3 Joneses in our class (although two of the Joneses are brothers).

There were nine other Samanthas in my graduating class. This explained why I never answered to my name in the hallways.

On another note, when going to my five-hour class, I accidentally sat next to another Sam. The instructor dubbed us "Sam-1" and "Sam-2" for the entire duration. ...I was Sam-2.

In my graduating class, we had four Megans, but they all spelled it differently: Megan, Meagan, Meaghan and Meghan. Not that it really made it less confusing.

This troper just spent an evening with a bunch of geeks, joined in one corner with four guys, one of which had the same forename as himself while the other three were all Svens. HilarityEnsued.

This troper remembers watching a chat show that featured a boys' football team where the coach, reserves and all twelve players were named Chris. At the end the host went "Here Chris!" and threw a ball into the air, and everybody dived for it.

There were three girls named Hannah in this troper's A-level group and we all had English and Drama together. We went by Blonde Hannah (blonde), Dark Hannah (brunette) and Chinese Hannah (me)

A group of gamers at a LAN party consisted of both Glenn Dubois and Glenn Martin (this troper). Since the group had been together for a while before I joined, I became Glenn-2.

Also, in High School Concert Band, both Glenn Hall and I were in the trumpet section.

Similarly, when talking with friends, I must make the distinction between Josh Adams, Josh Heinzl, Josh Islieb, and Josh Jensen. I also know an Alex Gentile, Alex Kennedy, and Alex Sofikitis, but the first one goes by Al and the third one is nicknamed Sigma (after the first letter of his last name, in greek).

This troper knows 5 people named Kristian/Christian(counting both spellings). I also know 3 people named Andreas.

A friend of mine swears that the five-a-side football team he played for as a kid was at one point made up entirely of Matthews.

This troper belives its school just took every person with similar names and put them in the same class. Out of 29 there are 7 people who doesn't share name with a fellow class-mate. 45% of out class is named Martin. Yeah...

At our school, one of our teachers is named Debbie. At the nearby elementary school, there's another teacher named Debbie. Their husbands are brothers, so they have the same last name.

In one of @/MrDeath's college classes, his professor made a point of having each student say his or her name when called on in class. During one particular class, the first seven consecutive hands to be raised? All Mikes. The professor was rather disappointed when the eighth person, a Chris, broke the streak.

This has happened twice in IJVin's various drama clubs. During ''{{Rent}}'', there were two Bens in the cast (one of whom played Benny) and one in the band. During ''YouCantTakeItWithYou'', there was a Tom, a Tommy and four Sams (two of each gender). One of the Sams played Ed while there was an actual Ed in the cast.

There are no less than five Matthews in this Troper's grade, and given the size of the classes, there are usually at least two of them in a class. (Though, one of them calls himself 'Mattie'... which gets unfortunate when you consider there's also a 'Maddie'...)

This Troper could yell either Josh or Jessica in any hallway at her school and get about a fourth of the people to answer. There's almost four thousand people at said school. This Troper is also close friends with an Alex, Alexis, Alexander, Alexandra, and Alexandria. It gets confusing...

This troper's name is Erin. while I was the only girl named Erin in my entire grade there were always several boys named Aaron in my classes. I live in North Carolina, where Aaron and Erin sound the same. Yes, it got confusing, and for a while I was called "girl-Erin."