If yes, then this is a case of homonymy!

Your name is there to make you stand out, to differentiate you from others. But then you might run into someone who has the very same name as you. Homonymy can be a problem, rather serious problem, a problem that might mass up the whole system…

This is made very clear in this fragment of the movie My Name Is Janez Jansa feauturing the Dominican immigrant Héctor Ramirez Delgado who is having troubles with homonymy since he was a child.

Enlighten by this story I started to ask people around me about this topic and then I made this patchwork out of their answers…

In the next days I’ll post couple of more radical examples of homonymy. In the meantime if you have short personal stories to tell about homonymy I’ll be happy to read them.

Janez