What do people think of others reusing old (implying the past owners) ship names?

[Vipera Berus]

Generally speaking, I doubt that people are intentionally reusing old ship names of which they are aware of.

This is true - I literally made a pirate chara and picked a chara name - to find that a player had literally just quit a faction and had used that chara name before he joined. Of course I got about 4 different players asking me why I quit the faction when it was a different player. I ended up renaming so the other player could use the name again.