I don't even have much of a "social presence" but Ive definitely had certain specific affairs of my day to day life affected for the negative (applying for credit to buy a house) just because I have a very boring, mundane and incredibly common (American) name that shows up in all sorts of databases even though I'm not the exact and specific person with my name convicted of, among other things: grand larceny.

For this reasons and others I've given real thought to pursuing a legal name change.