Notable sibling names from real life

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This is not meant to be bitchy at all because I LOVE that people do this (subconsciously maybe?). I think most of them haven’t realised or didn’t until a few years after naming their kids! So they’re not really contrived themey names, more coincidental. My own kids accidentally have musicals-related names.

I know siblings:

Fred and Barney (flintstones)
Ariel(la) and Sebastian (little mermaid)
Madeline and Margaret (Maddie and Maggie)
Matilda (Tilly) and Billy
Henry and Harriet (essentially the same name)

and mums and kids:
Ellie and Ollie
Ellie and Belle

I don't get it?

Janet and John books were a popular reading scheme back then. That era’s Biff Chip and Kipper!

My nanna was known to us as Mary. She had a sister who was known as Nancy.

However, their real names were Hannah Matilda and Hannah Maria respectively. Why on Earth they were both called Hannah baffles us all!

Ohh I do remember those books but not the babes.

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I know twins named Tom and Jerry - they dislike it to this day. Probably because sometimes it takes some time to convince people that they are really called these names and aren't joking.

I also know siblings called Harry & Henry, I don’t think their parents realise they’re actually the same name 🤦🏻‍♀️
Also know a Jack & Daniel and of course the classic Ronnie & Reggie
Oh and a Leah & Leia

Siblings called Ella and Ellen.
Siblings called Jade and Jake.
And the pièce de resistance -Four siblings called Gwenda, Gwenfron, Gwendoline and Gwyneth.

The kids I'm thinking of share very similar names:

Brothers Alfie and Archie.
Sisters Leila and Isla.

I have cousins called Nicola and Colin - only one letter difference!

I know two Daisy and Poppys. I know Ben and Holly isn't that well known but it's all I think when I hear it.

One of the mums in my 2017 birth group had a Benji. She called her next baby William, shortened to Billy.

I always wonder if she realises.

I know an Oliver and an Olivia

I know brothers called Owen and Noah which just feels like a rearrangement

When a good friend of mine had her DS ten years ago, she was on a ward with a woman who called her twins… Ant and Dec. I kid you not. My friend really didn’t know what to say to the woman!

I know of an Eva and Darren who had two children Aaron and Genevieve.

I know 2 lots of reggie and ronnie's

I've known:
Gabriel and Gabriella
Elouise and Louisa
Harry and Sally

And my personal favourite:
Elizabeth, Jane and Katherine (always called Kitty) whose mother swore she'd never read/watched Pride and Prejudice...

Twins called Antony and Antoniette.
Sibs called Henry and Harriet . I queried this with the grandmother who said they were entirely different names.
Friend’s husband is John Smith . Said her MIL always wanted a son called John and so despite marrying a Mr Smith decided she wouldn’t change her mind.

This wins 😮

I know of twins Ronnie and Reggie too. I always wonder if the parents realised or not.

I know twins Sam and Ella 🤣

An acquaintance has five children , the girls have masculine names and the boys have names that are often used for girls, it always puzzles me. Apparently they gave the first girl the name they would have chosen had they had a boy and so felt the other girls should match and because the first boy had a name that could be a girl's the second one had to as well.

I know a Charlie and Lola, Julia and Julian, Gillian and Ian, lynne and lynnette

I know a set of twins called Ronnie and Reggie!

I also knew brothers called Sean and Shawn.

I know siblings Milly, Maddy and Martin (known as Marti)