can same span id display more than 1x?

hi all,

is there a way to have the span id display more than 1x (the 1st shows up but not the next one) without extra javascript document.getElementById('name2***').textContent = "bob";?

html....

1 - the name is <span id="name"></span>

this doesn't show 2nd time

2 - again the name is <span id="name"></span>

<script>

document.getElementById('name').textContent = "bob";

</script>