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* [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] was inclined to change characters' names to enforce the limit. [[Psmith|Rupert Psmith]] became Ronald Psmith when in the same book as [[Blandings Castle|Rupert Baxter]], and the valet Brinkley was renamed Bingley when he was needed in a story set at Brinkley Court.
* Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov and Aleksandr Sergeyevich the manservant of the latter in ''[[The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar]]''. But these are [[Historical Domain Character|historical people]].
* [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[The Sound and
** The Sartoris family, important players in many of Faulkner's other works, tear this trope to shreds. There's John Sartoris, who had a son named Bayard Sartoris, who had a son named John Sartoris, who had a son named Bayard Sartoris... yeah. Bring a flowchart.
* ''[[I, Claudius]]'' has so many characters with the same or very similar names that the books contain a ''family tree'' to help readers work out who's who. This is because real life Romans really hated to be imaginative with names. They tended just to reuse whatever was already in the family, and to distinguish successive generations by nicknames. And that was with sons—daughters were lucky if they've got names ''at all''. In fact, they just had two dozen different first names for males, and all women in the Claudius family were named Claudia.
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