Know any married folks with wife's maiden name same as husband?

yes... Kelly Kelly

Yes! Watts and Watts. I thought she should have hyphenated her name, but that's just me.

I went out with a girl once with same last name as me. Definitely weren't related. It was a little odd though.

Well they probably arent that unrelated. (ancestry.com thread awaits)

Yes. It's a common very Anglo, very generic name. No chance that they are even slightly related at all. I thought it was kind of weird when I was told.

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You're not allowed to marry your cousin because you might have fricked up kids.

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Subsequently this has been proven untrue genetically. The issue that people were observing was the fact that if a family has a bad gene, and you have a kid with your sister, you were of course, likely to see that in the kid. Essentially, you could get the same outcome if you married a complete stranger, your odds were just lower on that specific bad trait.

If your genes are fine, the kid will be fine, the mere fact of being brother/sister isn't dispositive.

That wasn't the question. The question was "what's the logic in not letting two male cousins get married?"

No, I have a friend named Cameron (female) that married a guy named Cameron.

Yes, one of my mom's cousins married a woman with the same common last name.