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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    But town names aren’t unique, there are lots of towns that share names. For example there are 2 Dublins in the US. I think the reason town names are more unique is because there are less towns than people.

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        Now, I’m not a countamatician, but that sounds like more than the 50 states (and fourteen territories).

        Who’s double-dipping?

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          Apparently Ohio has 11 townships called Springfield. Googling it, I see a site for one in Clark County, one in Hamilton County, one in Richland County, one in Williams County, one in Summit County, and that’s as far as I felt like going.

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      Yea, pretty much the same UK town names are repeated across the country, sometimes even more than one in a state.