My dad's name is the same as the ml's name and its soooooo awkward reading this LMAO

I dunno, I don’t have a problem with things like that. Maybe it’s because my mom married my dad who has the same first name as her (now-deceased) father. It’s such a common name in the areas I’ve lived. Even with my own name, I encountered six other people with it in the same middle school.

Does that name come up often in romance stories?

Sometimes.