What's in a name?

So -- my son sent me a text earlier today:
i was reading something about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Van_Zandt

like i didn't know anything about him but it seems cool to be like a pretty successful actor and a member of the e street band

To which I responded:

This led to a predictably arcane exchange about evaluating the statistical significance of so many guys named (more or less) "van (S)Zan(d)t" all being musicians of some repute. :)

... it is kind of weird, isn't it?

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