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At least your comments help me feel I am not altogether alone,as this forgetting names,even when in a full flow conversation at times is truly embarrassing.
Of course the dreaded Dementia jumps readily to mind and yet amongst us slightly older members,it does seem rife.
So my mind has been made somewhat lighter.
My husband suffers much the same and yes we too can usually work together and eventually fill in the blanks!!

OldMeg .
I am the same with names of people and of plants, which is infuriating. I have a book in which I write them when they come to mind, as it is often the same ones for which I have a mental block.

It can take me days to remember names nowadays.

Do I come here often?

The alphabet is the way to go.
I sent my husband to the bank yesterday to pay in some money but didn’t put the money in!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! So I am normal and not going senile after all! We do the same - I chant the alphabet to myself phonetically and he remembers the name. Happens regularly, like daily. Often several times.

I’m always rearranging sentences as I speak too as I completely forget common words, but can remember and (it seems) use more obscure ones correctly.

Haha, that's me. Trying to remember an actress's name, I went through the alphabet for 3 days before I remembered her name is Cameron Diaz. (It usually takes me just a few minutes) so I was a bit worried that my memory was failing me. ?

My memory seems to be visual. When we are searching for an actors name I can usually say something like "I can see him in a uniform. He's playing a villain or I can picture him in Coronation St". I just love being able to google to satisfy our curiosity. Meanwhile we are missing the programme we are watching!

Only without picturing the person, as I am face-blind.

Exactly the same as tassiegran.

No, have never done this, usually, neither of us can remember. I am pretty good with names though, and he is good with faces.We can hardly ever remember the plots of all the tv serials we watch, and soon forget books we have read over the years ( have ordered more than one book for my Kindle that I then find I have already read.)
I am hopeless at remembering numbers, car reg. or ohone numbers of family and friends.

Just the same with us! I will go through the alphabet and picture the face of the person, then I will say "it begins with A" or whatever and nearly always the name will come to us.
Although sometimes it is hours later and I will call out the name.. It will suddenly pop into my mind.

I don't have a partner but that often happens with me and my daughter - exactly as you say, I seem to remember the first letter then she gets the answer.

Not quiet the same but if something is "on the tip of my tongue" I go through the alphabet in my head and usually remember when I get to the initial letter, especially works for peoples names.