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Very common in eras when the infant mortality rate approached or topped 25% less common now, though have seen a repeat as a middle name on occasion rather than a total recycle as once happened. Too common place then to be thought weird no matter how modern eyes see it. The American portraitist Charles Peale had 17 children iirc, one, Titian Ramsey was portrayed in a famous picture, The Staircase Group, when he died shortly after, the young brother born the same year was given the name. The 2nd Titian Ramsey Peale became famous in his own right, so he made the name his own.
As an aside, do check out the names Peale gave his kids, they're interesting.