Days used Carrie twice: Carrie Brady and Carrie Spencer, who was Laura's mother.

OLTL has had two Patricks (I think that's the only one I can think of, I haven't seen mentioned here...)

Agnes Nixon seemed to love using slightly out there names (I think she even named Greenlee during her last stint), although by the same token she didn't quite have the classic soap sounding slightly odd named Bell, for example uses (with the men particularly--Thorn, Ridge, etc). I had an ex who's name was Lance, his mom named him after a Y&R character and she used to joke that he was lucky he wasn't named Snapper.

Edited March 3, 201114 yr by EricMontreal22

There was Clint Radisson on Y&R and a guy named Clint Atkinson on AMC (short term character circa 1986 who shot Palmer, leading to Natalie becoming his private nurse). There was Clarissa Marler on GL and Lucinda Shenk on OLTL. There was a Dimitri Carlisle on the MTV soap Spider Games.

Thanks Loyal! I didn't know about those except for Lucinda on OLTL and forgot. Was that Arlene Dahl's character?

Iris-LIAMST, AW, ATWT, AMC

Lily-ATWT, AMC, Y&R, GH

Rose-Y&R, ATWT

Daisy-AMC, GL

Holly-GL, GH

Daisy-AMC, GL

Y&R has a Daisy too. :ph34r:

Y&R has a Daisy too. :ph34r:

and B&B has a Dayzee. Same name, just spelled differently

Least common name only on AMC?

Greenlee and Opal

AMC had a couple of Zach's:

Zach Slater

Zach Grayson

Edited March 3, 201114 yr by reallyhateskateonlost

Well B&B still have some of the most unique names. Ridge, Thorne, Oliver, Aggie, Whip, and Eric. Although there is a jr, and a 3rd. Deacon, Amber, Maggie, Jasmine, Saul, Darla, Sally, Macy, Sly, and Storm.

Natalie: AMC, OLTL

And I'm pretty sure other soaps have had a 'Natalie' or two.

Edited March 3, 201114 yr by Pine Charles

Well B&B still have some of the most unique names. Ridge, Thorne, Oliver, Aggie, Whip, and Eric. Although there is a jr, and a 3rd. Deacon, Amber, Maggie, Jasmine, Saul, Darla, Sally, Macy, Sly, and Storm.

Theres nothing unique about Eric. AMC had one. So did Days and I wouldnt be shocked if there were others.

Maggie's also been on OLTL, Days, AMC.

Didn't AMC have a 'Henry'? He was the Chinese boy that Maggie (?) had a fling with.

Yeah someone already mentinoed him

Edited March 3, 201114 yr by Cheap21

Yeah someone already mentinoed him

LOL! I saw that after I posted, so I went back and edited it to something else.

Well B&B still have some of the most unique names. Ridge, Thorne, Oliver, Aggie, Whip, and Eric. Although there is a jr, and a 3rd. Deacon, Amber, Maggie, Jasmine, Saul, Darla, Sally, Macy, Sly, and Storm.

While Eric isn't really unique, nor Amber (though her real name is Ambrosia isn't it), I do think B&B has the most unique/creative names in daytime.

While we're discussing character names, I still think the most clever "family" names, if you will, are Victor, Nikki, Nicholas, and Victoria. I've always thought it was clever and it fit the Newman family quite well (I also really like that Victoria and JT's son is named Reed).

I HATE how Days always recycles their names. Too many kids get named after other relatives and friends. Ciara, Parker and Sydney are probably the more unique names in a while. John Roman "Johnny", Alice "Allie", Theo tended to bug me (although the former not so much as that character hasnt been seen in decades)

Summer Newman took Phyllis' maiden name.

Interesting that Bill Bell chose Phyllis and Sharon and Sheila as lead character names as they are kind of old fashioned for the 90's.

Theres nothing unique about Eric. AMC had one. So did Days and I wouldnt be shocked if there were others.

+1. Y&R had one too.

While we're discussing character names, I still think the most clever "family" names, if you will, are Victor, Nikki, Nicholas, and Victoria.

Almost all Y&R legacy children are namesakes.