this can happen very easily. when you inc in your state the state checks to see if there is any other corp in YOUR STATE ONLY using the name you chose. if avalable, you can inc under that name. fifty states ,fifty posibilities. so full name of a corp would be example. butt xx hed trucking an illinois corporation. that would be the corps full name. the exception to this is if the name was trademarked. when i incorporated that is how it was explained to me. google will pull up any names similar to the one named in search.
