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Metadata Namespacing?

What feature of the XML metadata implementation allows me to have an identically-named field in two different custom objects? 

 

For example, I have a field named First_Name__c in two custom objects that I created within the Salesforce application. However, if I use the forceide to copy the same field metadata from one of these custom objects to a third custom object, it causes a naming conflict. I don't see the namespacing mechanism in the custom object metadata. 

 

I was hoping to create fieldsets that I could copy and paste (copy, not move) to avoid all of the repetitive clicking that attends entering new fields via the application. I have street address fields that need to be entered in three custom objects.