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Mine's unusual, but not foreign. I've see towns with the name, but only one man with his last name the same, and it was spelled differently.
But I ain't squealling.
I've known several lads with the same/similar first & surnames... they aren't unusual names, I just find it an unusual choice for parents to make... & they were all from the same town... John Johns, George George & Michael Michaels. Of course, having 5 sons named George Forman takes the cake.
Another mentioned a similar story... my dad was called Leo or Lee his entire childhood because his mum named him Leo William... or thought she had. When he joined the military in the early 40's, he found out he had a completely different first name & no middle name. His father didn't like his mum's choice & gave a different name at the hospital. Don't know how it wasn't discovered in school... perhaps they didn't require birth certs for registration in the 30's.
When I was a kid in the 60's, we had an elderly neighbor named Flower Basquette... of course, everyone pronounced her surname basket & all her sisters, who lived together in the same house, had garden-ish names... Ivy, Rose, Violet, Ash & Dilly... & a girl named Irish Boston (she lived in Boston & strangely wasn't Irish).
I have a friend with the first name Snow. Her last name is White. I can honestly say I'm friends with Snow White.
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