Do you easily forget the names of the people you meet?

sometimes i also have those problems.but i will try my best to not forget them because it will make them feel bad

Well Its depends also in the situation,I usually forget his/her names If i meet them in a short time only,like Introduce only the name and thats It.But I promise that I cant forget the face those people I met before,If we met again I will say hi but I dont ask the name again,the important Is I remember him/her.

Yes I always forget the names of people that I meet. The place that I work at always has new people coming in but its hard to always remember there names. Sometimes I write the names down on paper so I can remember them.

It depends on who it is.If it is someone I admire or sb I want to keep in touch,I will always remeber the name,otherwise I will always forget the name.

Hi trishasantos... Here's a little tip that you can use when you need to remember someone's name. This is what I do... When I first meet someone or am introduced to someone new, I immediately touch my thumb and index finger together, and think of an image that reminds me of their name when I hear it. If ever I meet them again and can't recall their name right off hand...I simply touch my thumb and index finger together. This mind "trigger" device I learned a long time ago from one of my professors. I can't tell you how much it has saved my butt a number of times! Give it a try. Of course...you have to REMEMBER to touch your fingers...else it won't work. (--smile--) commanderxo

Yes I forget it as soon as they told me their name. I have to hear the name 3 times or more to remember it. I've just started in a new school 3 weeks ago and I have no ideas what half of my classmates names are.. I sucks at remember names.

I don't forget names usually, but my husband is so bad it is embarrassing. He doesn't even get the names right of his OWN family members. He doesn't just talk to Tracy and call her Karen and vice versa, he calls Laura Laurie, and Laurie Laura. It makes me positively insane. They are his own family members! Of course, he can't even get his own kids' names straight. Thank God he only has two of them. He doesn't even realize he has made a mistake until I correct him. He doesn't usually forget the name really, just gets it mixed up, though he did have to ask me what someone's name was at a soccer game last week. What bothers me is when I see someone somewhere that I KNOW I know them but can't for the life of me remember who they are much less their names. Usually that is someone is so familiar like the cashier at the grocery store but you see them somewhere else and you struggle to remember who they are. Recently my husband and the girls went shopping at a mall outside of our town and I saw a woman in a store I swore I knew. I had to ask all three of them if they recognized her and they hadn't. She didn't appear to recognize me but I swear I have seen her somewhere before. Overall, though, I think I'm pretty good with names.

You have my empathy. I not only forget the names, I too forget their face :P It is only when people have unique names that I would remember. The other categories of name I remember are those who make a joke of their name.

Yes I do and liek you I just smile as well and would say hi, how you doing and then try to figure out there name, or wait until they leave and ask someone who knows both of us

I always forget names. I am on meds and that doesn't help much either. I can't even remember the person and what they even looked like. I know I should try to remember, but no matter how bad I try to remember, I can't.

trishsantos - hi. I think everyone is guilty of forgetting names. As you suggested, we're all so busy, it's hard to remember anything in this crazy world. I met one woman and her name was Sandy. I always got her name confused with her dog's name! That challenged me for some time. I gave up trying to remember her name, and asked my daughter to remind me. I remember reading about word association and I linked "Sandy" to the memory of a beach, resulting in never forgetting Sandy's name again. "Sandy beach" It worked every time.

Hey trisha, Don't worry! I know you're not alone! Alot of people have that problem! I know I do! Sometimes when you meet alot of people it happens. It's not on purpose, you just forget a name. I have a friend who can't remember when she meets someone by the name of John, yeah John! The easiest name to remember! She has a neighbor who must have told her 20 times in 6 years his name is John. She had a mental block against it. And anyone with that name she just couldn't remember. I've seem her do it over and over. She can't remember peoples names and what's worse is she gives them new names! There is this guy named Jim. She decided his name was Vinny and that's what she called him. Even when she was told his name was Jim she still called him Vinny, and then she called him VinJim. So it takes all kinds! At least your not like my friend!

same think happens to me.. I know the faces but I'm terrible when is about names.. I always think that I don't need to know people by their names, they have to know me! I really think that way and I believe than thats why I never can remember the name of someone. Maybe I got some kind of sort term memory lost..

Yes I used to forget the names of the people I meet but now it has been minimized, I read an article in the newspaper which says that this kind of memory loss happens because of less concentration we pay when a person is giving his introduction and also the remedy for this is to concentrate on what the other person says, so it was hard for me in the beginning then with some practice I could remember most of the names now.

all the time. I really can't remember half the people I went to school with so when I recognize their face but can't remember their name I try and hide from them lol. alot of people will come up to me and say is your name Mindy and I will say yea who are you. lol They will tell me how they know me.

The older I get the harder it is to remember a name, though I tend to always remember a face, and try to place where I know them from when I see them again. I hate this, because I use to be really good with names.

Much easier for me to remember faces that names.

in my age, from now i cannot remember the name of girl who i met in many years. so i can easyly forget the names.

Yes, I am really terrible with names . I have forgotten most of my grade school and high school classmates. And have forgotten a lot of my college friends. And to think I am still 25 years old!

People that i met for a long time i could never forget the names of but people who i just met recently and didnt see for a while , theres a pretty good chance ill forget theres names..i can remember everyones names , once i see someones face the name pops up right in my head.