has anybody ever had a friend whose name was the same as yours

[ME##]

at least in that case it's unlikely to be friend zoned

[bluaki]

One solution to this problem is to not make many friends

In my last half of high school, I knew two people named Jenny who were both in my math club and engineering group. I wasn't really close at all to anybody then, but I guess I could sorta call them friends. One of them seemed pretty smart in academics; she was about equal with me in math ability, which I hadn't ever seen in any other classmates.

So that probably would've made coming out even more awkward if I ever did. By the way, I decided on this name about a year before I met either of them.

I don't think I've really known anybody else named Jenny, Jennifer, Joey, or Joseph.

[silvertone]

bluaki that is not a realistic solution

[Mando Pandango]

Never really have other than my grandpa but i usually just called him grandpa

Otherwise most Aubreys I've known have been slutty girls who I had no interest in befriending

you should befriend Drake

[??????]

i never had a friend named alex
though, i've had alexa/alexandria/aleks

it just isn't the same

[YPrrrr]

you should befriend Drake

I don't like Drake's music much but I am glad he exists to remind the world Aubrey is not strictly a girl's name