I have somewhat mixed feelings about having a unique [1] first/last name pair.
The bad case IMO is sharing an unusual but not unique pairing with someone who you really don't want to be confused with. Back pre-web, a friend of mine in NYC shared a name with someone who was involved in a fairly serious local baseball scandal. My friend received everything up to and including death threats on his voicemail.
[1] According to "deep web" searches, not entirely but the one or two other cases have no web presence and may well be deceased.
The uniqueness of my name has yet to bite me in the ass. I'm sure there are other Pavel Lishins (Pavels Lishin?) in Russia and Eastern Europe, but I appear to be the only one on this half of the globe.
The bad case IMO is sharing an unusual but not unique pairing with someone who you really don't want to be confused with. Back pre-web, a friend of mine in NYC shared a name with someone who was involved in a fairly serious local baseball scandal. My friend received everything up to and including death threats on his voicemail.
[1] According to "deep web" searches, not entirely but the one or two other cases have no web presence and may well be deceased.