Do you have difficulty remembering names of people?

[Rocco]

I find that I often forget names of people I have met or worked with a year or more ago. Sometimes I remember them much later after an interaction, but I often find myself forgetting, and I feel awful about it in the moment when I see them somewhere.

In my career I have trained a lot of apprentices. I like working with new trainees and enjoy teaching them tricks and uncommon knowledge to working with electricity and all its associated pipe, rules, and calculations.

On different jobs or at the training hall I sometimes encounter people I trained or worked with in the past and I often cannot remember their names. It’s an awkward situation for me every time because I just kind of brain freeze when someone enthusiastically greets me. It feels nice to be remembered with such positivity but also cringe when I can’t remember names. I remember faces most of the time.

Do you have trouble with names of people you don’t see often?

 

[Shamar]

I find that I often forget names of people I have met or worked with a year or more ago. Sometimes I remember them much later after an interaction, but I often find myself forgetting, and I feel awful about it in the moment when I see them somewhere.

In my career I have trained a lot of apprentices. I like working with new trainees and enjoy teaching them tricks and uncommon knowledge to working with electricity and all its associated pipe, rules, and calculations.

On different jobs or at the training hall I sometimes encounter people I trained or worked with in the past and I often cannot remember their names. It’s an awkward situation for me every time because I just kind of brain freeze when someone enthusiastically greets me. It feels nice to be remembered with such positivity but also cringe when I can’t remember names. I remember faces most of the time.

Do you have trouble with names of people you don’t see often?

Names of people can evaporate from my mind seconds after I hear them.

 

[Aspychata]

l had to ask my spa tech twice what her name was this week.

 

[Misty Avich]

No, names and birthdays are information I can remember very easily.

 

[Outdated]

I was always hopeless with names and I have poor facial recognition to boot.

When I was living rough in a remote area I was the only computer tech literally for hundreds of miles, so everyone used to bring their computers to me. All of these people obviously knew me but I had no idea who they were. The strange part though was when I turned their computers on I instantly recognised any computer I had worked on before and remembered all of it's passwords and everything but still couldn't remember the name of the owner. Some had their real name as a user name which was handy, but then in Australia it's also perfectly acceptable to call someone Mate.

 

[Wolfiedog]

Names, directions and numbers go in one ear and out the other.
The person really has to impress and engage me for me to even remember their name for the duration of the encounter.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Unless I repeat their name a few times during a conversation, I will probably forget their name.

If I don't see someone for a while, I will forget their name.

Names of people and places just don't stick.

I struggle with names of streets I travel on every single day. I can describe it, but don't ask me to recall the name.

Names of patients I had a few days ago, nope. I can recognize my own notes in their patient charts, but not remember the patient after a few days. Nuts.

 

[grommet]

I find that I often forget names of people I have met or worked with a year or more ago. Sometimes I remember them much later after an interaction, but I often find myself forgetting, and I feel awful about it in the moment when I see them somewhere.

In my career I have trained a lot of apprentices. I like working with new trainees and enjoy teaching them tricks and uncommon knowledge to working with electricity and all its associated pipe, rules, and calculations.

On different jobs or at the training hall I sometimes encounter people I trained or worked with in the past and I often cannot remember their names. It’s an awkward situation for me every time because I just kind of brain freeze when someone enthusiastically greets me. It feels nice to be remembered with such positivity but also cringe when I can’t remember names. I remember faces most of the time.

Do you have trouble with names of people you don’t see often?

Yes very badly and all my life. I had a roommate whose name I could not remember for six months. So awkward. I met a girl I liked when I was 21 and never forgot her name. I cannot explain why this happens.

I also sometimes completely forget people. There was a man I knew for years in my disabled sailing club. We had sailed together for years. He stopped coming around and someone else mentioned him. I had no idea who they were talking about. They said his name. I did not remember at all anyone with that name. They described him and I had nothing. He was gone from my brain completely. That felt a little scary and I felt bad about it.

Most of my difficulty has been in recognizing people outside their environment but that is more than forgetting their name I think and not what you are asking about.

I have tried techniques to help me remember and if I remember to use them they do help. Like repeating their name several times when I first meet them.

 

[daniegirl6224]

Yep I struggle with this too. I also experience the thought blocking. Sometimes I forget my own dog’s name when people ask me My short term and long term memory are both really bad.

 

[Judge]

Increasingly so. But I suspect it is exclusively about old age in my case.

Been watching these YouTube sequences where you're shown pictures of celebrities from much earlier times, and the object is to identify the celebrity. Drives me nuts when I know who they are, but the names just don't seem to come out of my mouth in a timely fashion any more. I recognize the face, but the name can elude me. Ugh.

Yet when it comes to numbers or events, I still can remember them. go figure.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Not just names of people, I have difficulty remembering nouns in general. It doesn't matter how frequently I use the name. I just randomly blank on the name when I need to use it. I have actually been diagnosed with anomic aphasia (or anomia for short). So far, I have only forgotten my own name once.

 

[Outdated]

Been watching these YouTube sequences where you're shown pictures of celebrities from much earlier times, and the object is to identify the celebrity.

In pub trivia nights whenever they asked a question about a celebrity I always wrote the same name regardless of the question because I have no way coming up with the real answer. Audrey Hepburn. Doesn't matter if they asked about a male actor or singer, that's my answer.

I just randomly blank on the name when I need to use it.

This has been happening to me a little more often now I'm getting older. It's not a real problem at the moment but I expect it will get worse. It's embarrassing when it happens while you're talking, mid sentence a word just suddenly vanishes from your vocabulary. And trying to focus on what the word was just makes it even more impossible, mental constipation.

 

[Tom]

Yes, absolutely. My whole life.

Also can't remember numbers, passwords, formulas, etc. But faces and voices are different. I remember those very well.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Yes, absolutely. My whole life.

Also can't remember numbers, passwords, formulas, etc. But faces and voices are different. I remember those very well.

I can give you lots of useless telephone numbers and lock combinations from the 1970s, as well as most physics constants. Just don't ask me what someone's name is.

 

[Xinyta]

It's hit and miss for me.

I really do not remember the names of any of my teachers through any grade in school. I couldn't be able to tell you the names of students either. Though alot if it is likely attributed to stress and anxiety. And my effort to hide from it in my own little world.

Though people I interact with frequently, I tend to remember the name of easily.

Though I've found just remembering names of actors in shows/movies difficult. My uncle likes to test me on that stuff frequently. I can pick up on faces and voices fairly easily. Especially if a voice is particularly distinct. But names fail me, more often than not.

 

[Neri]

Yeah. I find it quite frustrating and unnerving, especially when I've known the person quite well.

 

[SusanLR]

Tell me your name and I won't remember it a minute later.
The old trick of repeating it back helps for a bit.
If the name is unusual, then I'll probably remember it.

Numbers have always been the worst though.
Times, dates, addresses, etc.
I may remember the name of a street, but never the address.
Same with the current date. I know the month and day of the week, but never the date. Embarrassing when you go to sign something and have to ask the date.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I feel like I sometimes sound like a liar because often, even as I'm thinking of the word, I can't remember the names of things or people I'm describing. Like as soon as I go to say the word, my mind goes blank of that exact word.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Absolutely. Names and faces of people. I can have talked to someone a few minutes before and might very well not recognize them.

 

[Masked Man]

Yes, I am terrible with names. I have worked at my place of work for a few years now and still have trouble remembering some people's names. It's embarrassing.