In #50370 the function dedup_names has been moved to pandas.io.common so it can be reused by any reader dealing with duplicate column names. The function can be expanded in the future to allow custom renaming patterns, so it should be used by any reader, to make sure we keep consistency with the behavior (as well as avoid duplicate code). There is at least one instance identified in #50370 where a different implementation is used to rename the duplicate columns. We should call dedup_names instead, and in case other alternative implementations exist, find them and also call dedup_names.