Yet another Dave Allen

Dave Allen is an extremely common name for British baby boomers, especially engineers. Mis-directed emails and multiple Dave Allens' in the same office is commonplace, but two stories stand out for me. The first was house hunting in Aberdeen; talking to the male owner in the kitchen and noticed a video of thge most famous Dave Allen - The Irish Comedian - on his fridge. The house owners name of course was also Dave Allen, which made three. On another occasion, we called in to see some friends who had moved into a new home in Surrey in the UK. Shortly after we left, they received a call asking for Dave Allen. They were a bit mystified as to how the caller could have known but passed on our home contact number anyway. The previous owner of the property was another Dave Allen, who had apparantly run up a credit card debt. It took many months and many threats to convince the debt collection agency that they were now pursuing the wrong man. These experience must be even more common for middle aged engineers called Steve Williams, but they haven't had a globally famous Irish comedian highjack name.