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Another common coincidence is when a man or woman lost a spouse they
would re-marry and the second spouse would have the same given name as the
first spouse.

 

When my parents divorced my dad married an Esperanza and my mom's
name is Esperanza, when my Padrino in Ensenada lost his first wife Berta, he
married again to another Berta and I have found several cases in my research
of widows or widowers who re-married and married someone with the same given
name as their first spouse.

 

Could this be coincidence?

 

Alicia Carrillo

San Jose, Ca

I think my mother was nuts - her name is Esperanza, she named her first
daughter "Linda Esperanza", named her 2nd daughter Maria Norberta (after a
grandmother), and then seemed to have forgotten names....naming me
Esperanza.  I have a niece whose name is Hope (she lives in Canada) and
another niece whose middle name is Esperanza.  In fact, when I married my
husband (javier), his sister's name is Esperanza who was also married to a
Javier.  Yikes---I tell people my alias is Maria Smith - makes it easier to
pronounce -- just kidding -- I would never allow anyone to call me outside of my
full name.

 

Esperanza