Names that have been mentioned:
Dane---I knew someone born in East Texas in the 60s with that name. It's been around a while.
Austin---Not necessarily Days of Our Lives. Many Texans ....or people with ties to Texas....name their kids Austin, Dallas, Travis and even Houston. I come could up with more "place names as first names" if I thought about it. We did it bass-ackwards in my family. Jim Wells County is named for an ancestor.
Not long ago, I met a guy at a party named
William Barret Travis (Surname.) WBT is a hero of The Alamo and Travis Country (where Austin is) is named for him. It is not uncommon for a boy here to have one or all three of his names.
The odd thing about this instance was that this guy was Black.....but that's not the odd part......he was from some Caribbean island that had no connection to the US whatsoever.
His last name was something that did not mesh with "William Barret Travis"
at all. He said NO ONE on his island had a name like him growing up. He stuck out like a sore thumb. He has no idea why his mother picked the name. I told him she must have gotten her hands on a Texas history book......WBT was rather a dashing sort. Eventually, as an adult, he moved to Texas and now he fits in JUST FINE!
Twin Names: I met newborns and asked their mom if they were identical She didn't know.....Told me tests were being done to check on that. They were names Javier and Xavier. I couldn't comment on the names, so I just told her the babies were precious.
A teacher friend taught
B/G twins who had the same name....sort of. I can't remember what it was, because it was one of those invented names that someone just thought up. It was short, but both kids spelled it the same. Since it was a made up name, the teachers were hard pressed to figure out how to pronounce it....and it was NOT pronounced phonetically. But it gets worse.....The mother was indignant that the teachers were mispronouncing the bizarre names. Come to find out, even though they were both spelled the same, the mom had decided to give each name a different pronunciation.
As my friend said, "I had a hard enough time pronouncing it once, let alone twice!" 
As for my name, it was fairly common. My parents meant to be a bit different, but the got the idea from an actress in a VERY famous movie and everyone else got the idea at the same time.
My very best friend had the same name, same hair color, same eye color and we were in the same class. But she was always taller and a bit heavier than me. To differentiate in conversation, sometimes the kids would refer to her as "Big ______" or "The Big One." I am sure that thrilled her no end, especially once we got to be teenagers.
As for DD, we loved the name Caitlin back when almost no one was using it. That's when she was a mere thought, not even on the horizon. By the time we got around to wanting a baby for real, Caitlin had morphed into a name that you heard EVERYWHERE. You couldn't spit without hitting a Caitlin. Since my name had been common, I didn't want my child to be 1 of 3 Caitlins in a class. But I hate names that are too odd and burden the child. We went with a name that is usually in the Top 50, eveyone knows it, seems to like it, but it's far enough down on the list that she's never had another one in her school. And her school has over 1000 kids. Although someone recently told me that their childhood friend had the same first and last name as DD....it's an ethnic sort of first/last name. My test is: Will it look good on the door when she's a doctor, dentist, attorney, vet, etc.?
Her name passed the test.
) I told him the poor child would be made fun of and probably be called Annie. We had 2 girls anyway so I guess it didn't matter. 
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It's all in the perspective.
