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
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
Yup, there are exceptions, like placenames named after other placenames, even in the old world. (Cartagena being named after Carthago, England [indirectly] after Anglia, even Byzantium was shortly called Roma Nova by Constantine.) Even then, those are more like exceptions, not the rule.