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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It’s a bunch of factors. Other posters highlighted some. Others are:
- You’re far more likely to name a person after another than a town after another. (Exceptions happen, I know.)
- Identical personal names for people can be disambiguated with patronymics and surnames, but usually there isn’t much of that for towns, except maybe “in [insert the name of the country controlling that city]”.
- At least in Abrahamic religions, the name also plays a role to highlight that the person is supposed to follow that religion.
- Names follow trends, People tend to die rather quickly, so you don’t see often the “old” trends. In the meantime that town might follow some town-naming trend from 300y ago.
Regarding point 1, in New England at least you can visit half of Europe within a few hours of driving if you go by town names.
