History Main / SignificantNameOverlap

* Also within the NFL, you have Josh Allen (quarterback of the Buffalo Bills) and Josh Allen (defensive end on the Jacksonville Jaguars). Since they're on opposite sides of the ball, they'll be on the field together any time the two teams play each other, leading to scenarios such as "Josh Allen is sacked by Josh Allen".

* The New York Jets have quarterback Zach Wilson and wide receiver Garrett Wilson, which means commentators often say "Wilson throws to Wilson".

** In the anime, Sugiura was a former schoolmate of Mei's twin sister, Misaki Yomiyama (still not the same Misaki mentioned above) who has died shortly before the beginning of the series. Since Sugiura is already going insane and only vagule remembers Misaki, she concludes that both sisters are the same person and that Mei is the extra person in the class who was resurrected from the dead. This leads to the class chasing her (and Sakakibara who is trying to protect her). Because Mei was once chosen to be completely ignored by her class at the beginning of the series, they didn't know that the curse had already started prior to Sakakibara's transfer, since Mei wasn't able to tell anyone that her sister died.

* The characters sharing a name are confused for one another, leading to a RedHerring and/or MistakenIdentity.

* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' reveals that [[spoiler:Real!Syaoran and Real!Sakura]] are both named Tsubasa by birth, and their intertwined fates is the major driving force of the entire plot.

* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Batman's TraumaButton is hearing the name "Martha", the name of his murdered mother and the LastWords of his father by her side. When Superman pronounces it due to his mother also being named Martha, his attempt to kill the Man of Steel with the Kryptonite spear stops dead in its tracks, a [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback tragic flashback]] ensues and he has a HeelRealization that he's just about to become like the man who murdered his parents when Lois Lane clarifies that Superman has a human mother named like this.

* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' has Larry and his two brothers, who are both named Darryl. The brothers' shared names are mostly used as a running gag when Larry introduce themselves. They are also TheDividual who never speaks.

* In Middle Eastern/Mediterranean variants of tale type ATU 432, "The Prince as Bird", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, the heroine, the yougest of three sisters, asks her father to bring her a strangely named object (e.g., some pearls, a ring, a cluster of jewels), which happens to be the name of a prince of a distant kingdom where her father travels to. The prince is also the titular "Prince as Bird", and comes to the heroine in the shape of a bird.

* ''Film/TheTerminator'': Kyle Reese and the T-800 know [[RebelLeader John Connor's]] mother is named Sarah Connor and lives somewhere in or around Los Angeles. Since that's a common name, the T-800 goes through the phone book and ends up killing two unrelated women first, Sarah ''Anne'' Connor and Sarah ''Emily'' Connor, before finally getting to the correct one, Sarah ''Jeanette'' Connor, who is cued in to the danger when the killings of the other two are reported on the news.

* Of the wives of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII, there are three Catherines[[note]][[UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon of Aragon]], Howard, and [[UsefulNotes/CatherineParr Parr]][[/note]] (although [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spellings may vary]]), two Annes[[note]][[UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn Boleyn]] and of Cleves[[/note]], and one Jane[[note]][[UsefulNotes/JaneSeymourRoyalty Seymour]][[/note]]. Notably, when listing his wives in order they almost perfectly mirror each other: Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine, Catherine.

** UsefulNotes/VirginMary's husband and Jesus's stepfather is named Joseph, a name he shares with the figure from the Literature/BookOfGenesis. The two Josephs both receive [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]], and lead their loved ones to safety in Egypt when tragedy strikes. The Nativity narrative in general is packed with allusions to older Jewish stories, establishing to Matthew's audience that Jesus is not a break from their traditions, but the fulfillment of them.

* Several ancient manuscripts of [[Literature/TheFourGospels The Book of Matthew]] give Barabbas--the insurgent whom the Jews want to free instead of Jesus--the full name of Jesus Barabbas, which literally means Jesus, son of the father. This is likely to show the irony of the Jewish leaders condemning their long-awaited Messiah to death by crucifixion for claiming to be the Son of God, while choosing to free a guilty criminal that shares His name. Most later manuscripts remove Barabbas's first name to enforce a OneSteveLimit for Jesus. Averted in almost every other instances of name overlap in Literature/TheBible, however, which is treated as incidental.