Duplicate names in a family via spouses/SOs?

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

There's a pattern in my mother's family that I thought might interest you, baby_names folks: family members marrying/dating someone who has the same first name as another member of the family.

ex.

My great-grandfather's name was Ervin. My great-aunt, his daughter, grew up to marry a man also named Ervin.

My grandparents had four children:
Randall (Randy) Boyd
Annette Marie
Kimberly (Kim) Ann
Paula Claudette

The youngest of my aunts and uncles, Paula Claudette, grew up and married a man named Randall (Randy) Blair. Her husband has the same first name as her older brother--this makes gatherings endlessly confusing, because we're a pretty close bunch.

Annette Marie is my mother, and her SO's name is Eric. After my biological grandfather passed away, my grandmother married a man--also conveniently named, you guessed it, Eric.

Kimberly Ann has a teenaged son, Justin William, whose longterm girlfriend is Kimberley Anne.

Randall Boyd's daughter is Ashley May, and she just called to ask if she could bring her boyfriend, Justin, to my family's Christmas dinner.

Does this happen in anyone else's family?

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[doxerssoldout.livejournal.com]

it's happened in my family - i dated a guy who had the same name as my father (he went by a different nickname though, so it was less weird); that guy has a sister and an ex with names similar to mine. my current guy has a sister whose name is a variant of mine as well. my brother has also seen girls with names similar to my mom's and mine.

however, everyone in my family has a super-common first name - except for me, we've all been in the top 50 for the past fifty years or so. (my name is still pretty average though - christine.) i can see where people might think it's weird, but it doesn't bother me. we all know who we're talking about/to, haha.