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This. In some places names are a collective possession of the group and you're given a name that had belonged to many people before you. While you're alive no one else can be given the name because, well, you have it! Once you die the name goes back to your group until it's time to give it to a new person. And while you have the name you are in some senses the same person as previous holders of the name.