Could the name n surname of d person can b similar?

Question

for eg: if name is jimmy shrama than could there be any other person whose name is jimmy sharma???????

Answer 1

I think you may have placed your question in the wrong category, this is the genealogy forum, the research of ones family history.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you are looking at printed, or written, records, and have found the person, or a person with a very similarly spelt name, that you are looking for, and especially if your example is a real case, when people write in the first instance,or transcribe a name from another record, it is very easy to transpose, or get, the letters in the wrong order, and the only way to be sure you have the right person is to try and find another source of the same information. Names were/are also often written down in the way that the writer hears them, or thinks that they should be spelt, so you will get different spellings of the same name, it's a real pain sometimes, but that's life !

Answer 3

Yes. and they can only be different on their middlename.

Answer 4

Yes there can.

Some first and surnames are very popular so there are quite a few people in the world with the same names. In families where the father names the son after himself they both have the same name.

Just look at this wiki disambiguation page full of people with the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_smith

Answer 5

Sure.  One of the problems we have as researchers is looking for a person and finding many with the same or similar name  about the same age and from the same area.

But then again, the name could be unique.

Do you have a specific genealogy question?

Answer 6

for sure

Answer 7

My name--first, middle and last-is identical to (a) a Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War; (b) one of the performers in the musical group Aerosmith (he's taller and sings better, but I'm better looking).  We are not related to one another.