can i use a variable’s value as the name of an object in C#

I have several Dropdown lists that need to have the same data inserted into them, and I was wondering if I could make a function to fill in all this data and pass it a variable to use as the name of the object.

public void populateDDL(double MaxNumber, string DDLName)
{
    double currentNumber = 0
    while (currentNumber < MaxNumber)
    {
        thickness = currentNumber + .5;
        ListItem Gen1Item = new ListItem();
        Gen1Item.Text = currentNumber.ToString();
        Gen1Item.Value = currentNumber.ToString();
        DDLName.Items.Add(Gen1Item);
    }
}

The function would accept a max number that it would fill the DDL to in increments of .5, then use the string passed to it to indicate which DropDownList it should be filling.

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Method 1

You could pass in a reference to the actual DropDownList instead of passing in a string:

public void populateDDL(double MaxNumber, DropDownList dll)
{
    double currentNumber = 0
    while (currentNumber < MaxNumber)
    {
        thickness = currentNumber + .5;
        ListItem Gen1Item = new ListItem();
        Gen1Item.Text = currentNumber.ToString();
        Gen1Item.Value = currentNumber.ToString();
        ddl.Items.Add(Gen1Item);
    }
}

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