Naming first cousins

[AInightingale]

Can I just ask if anyone has ever known a family where two first cousins (the sons of two siblings, I mean) have been given the same forename? I don't mean years ago, when everyone seemed duty-bound to pull a name from a pool of about ten names and rarely deviated from it. This is more recent times, talking the 60s/70s. I know it sometimes happens for reasons of religious conviction, but it isn't the case here, and it isn't that kind of name anyway.

My DC have cousins who have the masculine and feminine version of the same name but both use the same nickname - along the lines of Stephen and Stephanie, both known as Stevie. It does get a bit confusing sometimes and I do wonder why their parents chose such similar names when there are so many to choose from! To be fair to my SILs, I think the first one picked it just because she liked it, without realising that it was a significant name in the other SIL's family. I think if I was 2nd SIL I think I'd probably have used it as the middle name though.

Lots of same name cousins in my family, both parents sides, including my first cousin who was same first and surnames until we got married and changed surname. However, both sides are Irish and Roman Catholic so saints names and first names taken from grandparents/God-parents/siblings were the usual practice, though the people were often known by nicknames, which made tracing my family tree rather frustrating at times 😂.

My mum has a sister called Elizabeth. My mum and each of her two sisters have a daughter called Elizabeth. I have the same name as my mum 🙄. I also have 3 cousins called David. Clearly being "yooneek" was not a thing in the 60s and 70s 😆

My mum and one of her sisters used the same name for one of their kids. Not sure it ever crossed my mum's mind tbh. Irish Catholic family but not sure it's even a family name just popular for the time - late 50s/60s.

My cousin is named after my sibling. Age gap of about 20 years but born either side of the millennium