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My legal name is Martin C. Martin. This has only been a problem for computer systems 2 or 3 times. Once or twice on some no-name web site, which rejected name
by martincmartin 11y ago
My legal name is Martin C. Martin. This has only been a problem for computer systems 2 or 3 times. Once or twice on some no-name web site, which rejected names where first and last were the same. The other time was when the company I was working at was bought by Oracle. Oracle's internal email system simply refused to create a user with the same first name as last name.
(For the curious, I was born Martin C. Hilgerdenaar and changed my name in college.)
- shogun21 11y agoWere you aware of the problems or potential confusion when changing it?
- tgb 11y agoWhy did you change your name?
- randallsquared 11y agoHeh. My name is Randall R. Randall. I have had quite a lot of pushback from humans ("No, sorry, I need your LAST name..."), but I can only remember two systems that ever really caused me issues: Facebook and Google+.
- mikeash 11y agoI have to ask. Does the R also stand for Randall?
- randallsquared 11y agoNo, it's Reginald. You are in good company in wondering, though. :)
- icelancer 11y agoSeems like he'd be randallcubed then, no? :P
- pklausler 11y agoI am reminded of "Catch-22"'s Major Major Major Major.
- protomyth 11y agoor General Marshall upon being promoted to 5 star which is typically called a "Marshall" or "Field Marshall". The story goes he refused that title and "General of the Army" was used as he didn't want to be Marshall Marshall.