List of people with reduplicated names

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."

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 don't have a family name but take their fathers name as their "last name". Most immigrants from the Arab world usually take their paternal grandfathers 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, 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
Not reduplicated in the original language

Nicknames or stage names

Same personal name and family name

American

Arab

Australian

Canadian

Chinese

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

Welsh

Other British

Other

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cole, William (1979). "Mutual Problem". In Harmon, William. The Oxford Book of American Light Verse. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 470. ISBN 0195025091.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Jacques Leslie (1993), "Couplings", Newsweek 121: 344
  3. ↑ Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913-2010 (pdf). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2010. pp. 69, 72, 75, 95.
  4. ↑ Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913-2010, pp. 40–48, 60–64, 95
  5. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102526889