like town names are very unique; you probably couldn’t find the same 2 towns next to each other very often

but mark steve chris hannah claire laura etc are all very common across the anglosphere

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    I live within 45 minutes of two towns named Troy and two towns named O’Fallon. There are probably more with same names but off the top of my head there are 2 pairs I could think of in 5 seconds of thought.

    Names aren’t that unique, we refuse them a lot because we lean towards what is familiar

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      That’s an American perspective, aside from a few exceptions (variations of forum, fort, etc.), it’s not as common in Europe

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        Are you sure? It’s quite common with town names. Hell, there is 105 Switzerlands in Germany!