[Bruce Wang]

A number of years ago, I read an article in the Journal about so many people having the same name in the Philippines because they draw from a limited set of Spanish surnames.  I can confirm this first hand from spending a significant time in the country.  So people would get wrongly arrested or get their credit rejected.  One guy's solution was to give his son the unusual name of Hitler Manilla.  A google search turned up a more recent article in the BBC that covers the same story.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fr...609892.stm

[Bruce Wang]

A number of years ago, I read an article in the Journal about so many people having the same name in the Philippines because they draw from a limited set of Spanish surnames.  I can confirm this first hand from spending a significant time in the country.  So people would get wrongly arrested or get their credit rejected.  One guy's solution was to give his son the unusual name of Hitler Manilla.  A google search turned up a more recent article in the BBC that covers the same story.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fr...609892.stm