The "Padme" ploy worked fine though, because she was seemingly known to everyone else as just "Queen Amidala".
Where the logic sort of breaks down for me has always been when they reveal in episode 2 that she was elected to a term as teenage queen of her planet. Which by the way, what sort of political system is that?
This tangent about elections is relevant here because, whereas I could accept that her first name might actually be some sort of mystery or at least a very obscure fact if she was a royal with fourteen first names, raised in some sort of forbidden city and only revealed to the world when she adopted the regnal name Amidala, having her just be an elected politician named Padme Amidala who ran for the office of Queen a year or two earlier makes it feel like Qui-Gon and Obiwan did not actually read their mission brief at all.
But, maybe Padme is just an insanely common name on Naboo. A quick google search finds that Queen Elizabeth I had at least two different ladies in waiting who's given names were Elizabeth. I chose that search because I happened to know that in Tudor England in particular like 80% of women had the same half dozen names, but similar phenomena have occurred elsewhere in history. Evidently at one point half the male population of parts of medieval Spain was named some variation of "John".
So, in conclusion, either we have some lazy Jedi who didn't do their homework, or we have a Naboo that's lousy with Padmes.
