List of people with reduplicated names

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Mutual Problem

Said Jerome K. Jerome to Ford Madox Ford,
"There's something, old boy, that I've always abhorred:
When people address me and call me, 'Jerome',
Are they being standoffish, or too much at home?"

Said Ford, "I agree;
It's the same thing with me."

William Cole[1]

Reduplication is a process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Alternative terms include cloning, doubling, duplication, and repetition. Reduplication has a grammatical function in some languages, such as plurality or intensification. It is also used to derive new words. The process of anthroponymy, or naming people, is frequently creative, and provides examples of this.

During immigration many Arabs or others who use the Arab naming structure do not have a family name but take their father's name as their "last name". Most immigrants from the Arab world usually take their paternal grandfather's name as their last name.

Reduplication in human names is sometimes used with hypocorisms, i.e., informal short versions of names. It is commonly used this way in French and Chinese, e.g., the French name Louise becomes Loulou as a diminutive. The nicknames and fictional characters below include other examples.

Surnames[]

Personal names[]

Reduplicated in the original language
  • Ai Weiwei (艾未未, born 1957), Chinese artist
  • May May Ali, daughter of American boxer Muhammad Ali[3]
  • Bo Guagua (薄瓜瓜, born 1987), former Chinese leader's son
  • Fan Bingbing (范冰冰, born 1981), Chinese actress
  • He Pingping (何平平, 1988–2010), Chinese record-holder
  • Li Feifei (李飞飞, born 1976), American computer scientist
  • Li Lili (黎莉莉, born Qian Zhenzhen, 1915–2005), Chinese actress
  • Li Wenwen (李雯雯, born 2000), Chinese weightlifter
  • Lily Li (李麗麗, born 1950), Hong Kong actress
  • Liu Yangyang (刘扬扬, born 2000), member of China-based band WayV
  • Yo-Yo Ma (马友友, born 1955), American cellist
  • Sa Dingding (萨顶顶, born 1983), Chinese singer
  • Moon Moon Sen (born 1954), Indian actress
  • Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope (1823–1871), British naval officer
  • Tan Weiwei (谭维维, born 1982), Chinese singer
  • Tingting (婷婷) Chinese given name, multiple people
Not reduplicated in the original language
  • Run Run Shaw (邵仁楞, 1907–2014), Hong Kong entertainment mogul
  • Wang Zhizhi (王治郅, born 1977), Chinese basketball player
  • He Ying Ying (何盈莹, born 1995), Singaporean actress

Nicknames or stage names[]

See also: Mimi (given name)
  • Ada Adini (1855–1924), American soprano
  • Bam Bam Bigelow (1961–2007), American professional wrestler
  • BeBe & CeCe Winans (born 1962 and 1964), American singers
  • Bebe Rexha (born 1989), American singer
  • BeBe Zahara Benet (born 1981), Cameroonian drag queen
  • Bianca Bianchi (1855–1947), German coloratura soprano
  • Bibi (singer) (born 1998), South Korean singer-songwriter
  • Billy Dee Williams (born 1937), African-American actor
  • Boom Boom Geoffrion (1931–2006), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • Booboo Stewart (born 1994), American actor
  • CeCe Peniston (born 1969), African-American singer
  • Chi Chi LaRue (born 1959), American film director
  • Coco Chanel (1883–1971), French fashion designer
  • Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born 1967), American lead singer of The Dandy Warhols
  • Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born 1935), Puerto Rican golfer
  • Doug E. Doug (born 1970), African-American actor
  • Dudley Dudley (born 1973), ring name of American professional wrestler Jeff Bradley[3]
  • Fei Fei (1945–2008), Hong Kong actress
  • Flavor Flav (born 1959), American rapper
  • Franco Franchi (1928–1992), Italian comedian
  • Gae Gae (born 1991), Burmese singer
  • Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (1925–2006), Mexican-American actor
  • Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (born 1946), English musician
  • Helle Helle (born 1965), Danish author
  • Honey Boo Boo (born 2005), American child beauty pageant contestant
  • Lord Haw-Haw (1906–1946), British Nazi propaganda broadcaster
  • Jay-Jay Johanson (born 1969), Swedish singer-songwriter
  • JoJo (born 1990), American singer
  • JoJo Starbuck (born 1951), American figure skater
  • John John Molina (born 1965), Puerto Rican boxer
  • Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
  • José José (born 1948), Mexican singer
  • Justo Justo (1941–2012), Filipino columnist and playwright
  • Keke Palmer (born 1993), American actress
  • Keke Rosberg (born 1948), Finnish racing driver
  • Keke Wyatt (born 1982), American singer
  • Lil' Keke (born 1976), American rapper
  • Kelly Kelly (born 1987), American female professional wrestler for WWE
  • Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (born 1993), Japanese singer
  • Lisa Lisa[3] (born 1966), American singer
  • Lulu (born 1948), Scottish singer
  • Marky Mark (born 1971), American actor
  • Miou-Miou (born 1950), French actress
  • Mr. Mister, American band
  • Mitch Mitchell (1946-2008), English drummer (with Jimi Hendrix)
  • Miu Miu, childhood nickname of Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada (born 1949), adopted as the name of her Miu Miu brand in 1992
  • Noël-Noël (1897–1989), French actor
  • Rod Roddy (1937–2003), American television announcer
  • Rucka Rucka Ali (born 1987), American comedian-rapper
  • Rye Rye (born 1990), American rapper
  • Snoop Doggy Dogg (born 1971; later known as Snoop Dogg and Snoop Lion), American rapper
  • Steve Stevens (born 1959), American guitarist (with Billy Idol)
  • Sylvain Sylvain (born 1951), American guitarist
  • Totò (1898–1967), Italian comedian
  • Toto Cutugno (born 1943), Italian singer and songwriter
  • Toto Wolff, Austrian CEO of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
  • Tuck Tucker (1961–2020), writer, artist, animator, songwriter, and director
  • Vinnie Vincent (born 1952), guitarist, songwriter and former member of Kiss (band)
  • Xi Xi (西西, born 1938), Chinese writer
  • Bian Jinyang (born 1993), Chinese author who writes under the pen name Yang Yang
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917–2016), Hungarian-born American actress

Same personal name and family name[]

Among families with patronymic surnames, partial reduplication often occurs with people (usually males) who have the same forename from which the surname or last name derives. Examples include Sven Svensson, Ioannis Ioannou and Isahak Isahakyan.

American[]

  • Abraham Abraham (1843–1911), businessman
  • Adrian Van Vinceler Van de Graaff (1891-1936), football player
  • Ahmed Ahmed (born 1970), comedian
  • Barbara Barbara, fashion designer[3]
  • Hugh Brown Brown (1883–1975), attorney and Mormon church leader
  • Chris Christie (born 1962), politician, governor of New Jersey from 2010–2018
  • Dudley Dudley (born Dudley Webster, 1936), politician
  • De De Pierce, formerly Joseph De Lacroix Pierce, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist
  • Ea Ea, formerly Craige Schensted, physicist
  • Emery Emery (born 1963), stand-up comedian, film editor & producer, and author
  • Evans Evans (born 1936), actress
  • George W. George (1920–2007), film director
  • Gordon Gordon (1906–2002), writer
  • Griffith J. Griffith (1850–1919), industrialist and philanthropist
  • Hamilton Hamilton (1847–1928), painter and etcher
  • Holling C. Holling (1900–1973), author and illustrator
  • (born 1945), politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives 1991–1993 and 1995–1999[4]
  • John John (disambiguation), several people
  • Khaled Mohamed Khaled (born 1975), recording artist under stage name DJ Khaled
  • Lauren Bush Lauren (born 1984), granddaughter of George H. W. Bush
  • Leon M. Leon (1903–1998), Hollywood sound technician[5]
  • Dr. Monica L. Monica, an eye doctor who has run for Congress from Louisiana several times, first in 1992[6]
  • Morgan Morgan (1688–1766), pioneer settler
  • Morris Morris (1844–1906), actor
  • John Myers Myers (1906–1988), writer
  • Nyambi Nyambi (born 1979), actor
  • Phelps Phelps (1897–1981), politician
  • Phillip Phillips (born 1990), musician
  • Richard N. Richards (born 1946), astronaut
  • James Roosevelt Roosevelt, known as "Rosey" (1854–1927), diplomat and half-brother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Thomas Thomas, several people
  • Ward Wellington Ward (1875–1932), architect
  • Warren S. Warren, professor of chemistry at Duke University
  • William Williams, several people

Arab[]

  • Abdullah Abdullah (born 1960), Afghan politician
  • Ahmed Ahmed (born 1970), Egyptian-born American actor and comedian
  • Azzam Azzam (born 1963)
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016), Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Fares Fares (born 1973), Swedish-Lebanese actor
  • Haidar Haidar, Syrian novelist
  • Kahlil Gibran whose full name was Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)
  • Mahmoud Mahmoud (born 1981), Egyptian footballer
  • Sirhan Sirhan (born 1944), assassinated Robert F. Kennedy
  • Sirhan Sirhan (militant) (died 2003)[3]

Australian[]

Canadian[]

Chinese[]

(Note: some of these people's surnames are not the same as the given names in the original language)

Italian[]

  • Dino Dini (born 1965), video game developer
  • Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), astronomer
  • Guccio Gucci (1881–1953), fashion designer
  • Guido Guidi, comics artist
  • Guido Guidi (born 1941), photographer
  • Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437), Renaissance humanist
  • Salvino Salvini (1667–1751), poet
  • Santorio Santorio (1561–1636), physician

Japanese[]

  • Eiki Eiki (1971–), manga artist
  • Saito Saito (1972–), poet

Welsh[]

Other British[]

Among the early modern gentry, one custom was for a son's given name to be his mother's maiden name, and another was for a man to change his surname to that of a relative to receive an inheritance; these customs sometimes intersected to give names such as Cresswell Cresswell (born Cresswell Easterby) and St George St George, 1st Baron Saint George (born St George Ussher).

  • Alan Alan, magician (1926–2014)
  • Anthony Anthony, compiled the Anthony Roll, an inventory of Tudor ships (fl. 1540s)
  • Baden Baden-Powell (1860–1937), aviator
  • Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), author of Flatland
  • Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), author, born Ford Hermann Hueffer
  • Francis Francis (writer) (1822–1886)
  • Francis Francis (cricketer) (1852–1926)
  • Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941)
  • Hamilton Douglas-Hamilton (1853–1929), cricketer and clergyman
  • Hayman Hayman-Joyce (1897–1958), general
  • Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), author
  • Edward Loveden Loveden (died 1822)
  • Martin Martin (c.1660–1718), writer
  • Michael Michael (born 1957), police informant
  • Mohamed Mohamed (born 1984)
  • Monier Monier-Williams (1819–1899)
  • Neville Neville (1949–2015), cricketer and football agent
  • Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496–1567), Lord Chancellor
  • Sir St George Gore-St George, 5th Baronet (1722–1746)
  • St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile (died 1787)
  • Samuel Samuel (1855–1934), politician
  • Sassoon David Sassoon (1832–1867), businessman
  • Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Bt. (1769–1811), politician
  • Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927), painter

Other[]

Fictional characters[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cole, William (1979). "Mutual Problem". In Harmon, William (ed.). The Oxford Book of American Light Verse. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 470. ISBN 0195025091.
  2. ^ "Theodora Wilson Wilson". wikidata.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Jacques Leslie (1993), "Couplings", Newsweek, 121: 344
  4. ^ Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2010 (PDF). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2010. pp. 69, 72, 75, 95.
  5. ^ "Leon M. Leon". IMDb.
  6. ^ "Monica Monica". IMDb.
  7. ^ History of Placer County, California, 1882
  8. ^ "team". inkjournalism.org. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Results". m2002.thecgf.com. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Miyamoto says Mario's full name is "Mario Mario"". 14 September 2015.
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