Will Anyone Believe this Is My Name? Understanding Michael Martinez Is Quite so Easy as We Could Think
Saturday, January 29th, 2011Have people ever told you you had a popular name? What do you believe you would do if you met another person with your name? Because of the World Wide Web now it is so simple to meet other people who use names your parents gave you. It could be they have a unique middle name. It could be they spell your shared name quite differently than you. Quite a few of us have people who share the same names. On rare occasion our counterparts might even enter fields we pursue.
Take the baseball player Michael Martinez. Some might come across Martinez and mistake him for a high schooler or maybe a well-known horse jockey. And there is also a basketball player Michael Martinez. When you meet someone that enjoys one’s own fascination in athletic competition and you both discuss the athlete named Michael Martinez, make sure you really are discussing the correct sportsman!
Some segments of the academic community possibly have heard of more than one Michael Martinez who teaches political science. Among the ranks of reporters one should know of quite a few journalists going by the name of Michael Martinez. Tracking Michael Martinez would be funny were a Michael Martinez to write about a Michael Martinez. Educating others in political science should be challenging enough yet what if you’re the political science expert Michael Martinez being interviewed by the news reporter Michael Martinez as you’re both following a game featuring Michael Martinez?
If you think this is all very improbable, consider how “Michael” ranks among the top names bestowed upon male babies in English-speaking nations. Altnerate spellings of “Michael” occurring in other languages around the world such as French (Michel), Swedish (Mikkel), and more introduce even more Michaels. The name of the family “Martinez” is another multi-language name. It is said that twenty million people throughout America carry the family name “Martinez”. Therefore the chances that a family may name their child “Michael Martinez” seem generally good.
There are other common name combinations like “David Jones”, “John Jones”, “John Smith”, and “Jeff Bates”. Maybe we can say popular surnames include “Black”, “Foster”, “White”, and “O’Neal (or “O’Neill”). Common first names include John, Jack, Michael, Bill, William, David, and Bob.
Parents do not need to be concerned. Your kids have shared names and some of us may even come across a few doppelnamers. However it is not just the name we are given which defines what we are. Our choices and friends and kin contribute an important our lives. You make your own place in the cosmos in a special way. So don’t be concerned over who may share a name similar to yours. Rather, think of your doppelnamers as old alter egos whose lives could have been your own.