But.... that’s my surname......

"this username is already taken"

There's a guy in my class with my same surname, so every time someone calls for [my surname] we always respond with "Which one?"

Example: [my surname], you mother came to pick you up. Us: yeah but which one?

7 yo me wondering who sur is and why he took my name

When you live in Korea and half the population has "Kim" as their surname

The day I lost my identity...

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We had 2 girls a class below menwith the same first AND surname, imagine the confusion:p Its just a common surname in the area and they both had popular first names for the time

In the uk at least, there’s a good chance that you will be related somewhere down the line. They can source most surnames, through DNA, to a single point of origin. Apart from the really common ones like Smith, Jones etc

when no one else but your family has the same surname as you...

me as a 1st grader seeing everyone with the last name “Nguyen”

Me:Visible Confusion

When i was 6 a girl in my class had the same last name as me and i told my sister the girl was our lost long sibling my sister had to explain to me that people can have the same last name and not be related

Random british person explaining to me that surname and last name are the same thing

16 year old me

Me, a Johnson: I am inevitable

Well technically we are all related

Anderson. He was my classmate starting in preschool(where our teacher also had that surname because she was my mom) on up. I always had to be at the head of the line when we lined up in alphabetical order because my given name starts with an E and his started with an H.

7 year olds:Impossible

Never had this problem

Funny story: my family members have found multiple people in the city we live in and surrounding cities with our last name, and when we do DNA tests, we find out that they are typically distantly related to us.

And your surname must be smith

I teach kindergarten. My students think two other teachers and I are sisters because we are blonde and have blue eyes.

Edit: a word

Had a teacher in second grade whose last name was Kennedy...yeah I kept thinking of the president

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when your mother and father never married so you and your sister have different last names.

Me and my family always called a surname the “last name” so I was really confused when I read this

My grandma married someone with the last name >>insert last name here<< divorced him then 5 years later married another dude with the same last name, >>insert last name here<<, who were completely unrelated

This is so true for like a year I thought a relative of mine worked on Danny Phantom

Unless you have a very uncommon surname. I'm related to everyone with the same surname in my country...

When I’m doing a family tree project for history and find out my maternal grandparents had the same last name before marrying

What's a surname?

They can???

This also applies to white people who think all asians with the same last name are related.

My last names Anderson so I used to think I was related to the grave digger drivers but then I realized my family tree was 90% heroine addicts.

No

It's so weird, imagine if people had the same first name tho, that would be dumb

Pretty sure that's called Alabama

Haven’t seen this format in ages what’s it called

Oh.... So that wasent my sister? That's a bummer...

me knowing that my last name is unique to my family so that conversation would be pretty awkward

My last name is Nelson and I remember in like P4 my teacher put on a horrible histories about Horatio Nelson and I stood up and put my hand across my chest because I thought I was related to him.

I’m still always wondering when someone has same surname as me that hundreds years ago our ancestors married each other or something

I had a substructure teacher that I shared a last name with. The other students kept asking if he was my father.

Imagine being not american

My five year old asked today if I worked on a Disney movie when she saw my name in the credits.

I used to think Will Smith was my cousin

Please have another look at my username for reference

W a i t ...

Found the European

i used to think matthew perry and katy perry were married when i was a kid oml

Reverse Alabamian psychology

In seventh grade, a girl in sixth grade was flirting with me. I didn't realize it at the time tho, and the relationship would've been weird cuz we had the same last name but weren't even closely related

Tf is a surname

Nobody has my surname. Theres 36 people with the same last name

Ummm, American here, ya mean last name?

Sorry I dont speak anime, Down here in Georgia we call that a last name

Not in my nationality

I'm having flashbacks of meeting a girl in third grade whose last name was "Dickens," and later that week I found a book by Charles Dickens in the library, and I think I might've had a bit of a crisis that day

in albania this i alweas but we call people with their name and teachers too beacuse the whole street hase the same sur name not just mine butt all of the city's and villages

I understood it at a young age due to having a very common last name

I got asked all the time if me and this other kid I never met until junior high were related.

Im glad my surnames is not common.

I still struggle with this concept at 34 y o

OUR surname

*turms to my sister" "Soooo, how u doin?"

Everyone is technically related soooooooooooo.

Except they are, indeed, related.

What about the kids in Vietnam tho