An Uncanny Roster

UPCM Class 2019 has the silliest name duplications I have ever seen. It's like real life. People have the same names: those with exactly the same spelling and same pronunciation, those with different spellings but similar pronunciation, those that sound almost the same, those with the male and female versions.

We have four Migs(es) or Miguel(s), three Kim(s), two Benj(es), two Nathan(s), two Sam(s),  two Thea(s), two Hans(es), and two Kevin(s). Pronounced the same are a Maxx and two Max(es), two Adrian(s) and an Aedrian, an Ina and an Ynah, a Lenard and a Leonard and a Maika and a Micah. Then, there are two Mico(s), a Nico, and a Mica,  a Jade and a Jane, a Colleen and a Koreen, a Marion and a Marianne, a Geno, a Gina and a Janno, a Keeshia and a Keisha, and two Carlo(s) and a Carla. That's 29.7% of the class and the nicknames alone!

There are also those who share the same surnames albeit unrelated, I think. We have two Cruz(es), two Eugenio(s), two Go(s), two Javier(s), two Pascual(s), three Santos(es), two Valera(s), and obviously not the least, five Tan(s). That's 9% of the class!

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