My bad! Sorry about that, crazy two Silvio Devita's both in Tom's River, is there a way to change the post in the subject thread?
No disrespect and I don't know where you're from. But it's not all that crazy. In my town alone there is 5 of same name. My dad me my great uncle and two cousins.
Big italian families all named there kids the same thing.
Perfect example: A lot of people (even the "researchers") get confused about Farby (the guy who was acting for Vince when he went away in '97). Farby died young a few years later.
Anyway, Farby's real name was Frank Serpico. His Father's name was also Frank Serpico, and his nickname was also Farby. His Father had a first cousin, also named Frank Serpico, also nicknamed Farby, and he had a son, also named Frank Serpico, also nicknamed Farby.
So you had two first cousins, and two second cousins, all named Frank Serpico, all nicknamed Farby, and all involved in the Genovese family. If you didn't know them, or of their family, it would be nearly impossible for an outsider to comprehend. The stupid Feds couldn't tell them apart for years. And that's not to mention the two Barneys
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Not that it's mutually exclusive to the Mafia. Like Cheech said, it happens in all Italian families. I hate to use a media reference, especially a movie. But it's like the wedding voiceover in "Goodfellas," with all of the Peters, Pauls, and Maries. It happens all the time. Italians are big on tradition, and naming kids after family members is a big tradition.