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Originally Posted by mcan

On it's face, yes. Not good odds. But it's very likely that a casting director, while reading a script written by someone with an odd name might be subconsciously already thinking of an actor with the same name before they even start reading the first page, so they're already LOOKING for a character to cast that actor as and imagining that actor as they read the script the first time. Suddenly the unlikely becomes almost assured.

Good theory.