Commonality of it all

[silver05.livejournal.com]

This is a question I've been wondering about for a while. Since I have a fairly uncommon last name, and have a formerly unusual first name to boot, I never thought that my thinking would come to anything - but both the guys I've dated so far have had incredibly common last names, so I'm wondering.

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[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's important with common last names to use more uncommon first names. Michael Johnson is going to have more mistaken identity problems (with banks, credit agencies etc) than Liam Johnson.

[stardottedeyes.livejournal.com]

Speaking of that, I have a friend named Michael Johnson! In college once, we were at a party, and he met another Michael Johnson. Not to mention the more than 20 Michael Johnsons I found on Wikipedia!

Since my fiance's last name is fairly common, and I refuse to name my future kids with the same first name as someone I know (friends, co-workers, family, etc), they are almost certainly going to end up with less common names.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Haha our local member of parliament is called Michael Johnson. Our electorate is called "Ryan", and then he called his newborn son Ryan...

Way too transparent lol