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

sort of related, my mum knew a staunch Irish Catholic family when I was a child. They had a number of girls. All had the first name Mary! (think like Mary Anne, Mary Theresa, Mary Kathleen etc). They all were known by the second name. Your post suddenly made me remember them and smile!

This is SO outing that I might as well have changed my username to my first and surname.

However we accidentally did this with the twins.

Castiel
Azekiel

The spelling thing didn't actually register until we registered them. Pronounced differently (ee-el and ee-ul) but still 😂

However the rhyming middle names was deliberate if hormone induced. Think like eldest was like Tim, then we really liked Jim but ended up using it as a middle name for twin 1 so deliberately found a matching name say Kym for the second twin

Siblings named Wayne and Dewayne

I knew twins called Neil and Simon and later when I heard of the playwright Neil Simon I wondered if they were named after him

I know a set of brothers called Jack and John which I always find weird as they're effectively the same name.
I also know a Tilly and Billy and a Millie and William which is quite a mouthful.

I know of you ha boys called Albert and Ernest. Bert and Ernie

I don’t know if their mother knew and agreed but their father definitely knew what he was doing…

I know brothers called Neil and Leigh. Look different enough written down but they sound v similar.

Also know twins called Joan and Joanne.

Haha so many good ones. Most of them though the parents must have meant to do it, no way can you have some of these without realising!! Ronnie and Reggie, come on!!

I also know twins Ronnie & Reggie
Also twins Elizabeth & Isabella - Lizzie and Izzie
And siblings Andrew and Andrea

I known an Oliver and Polly

Brothers Robert and Robin, both go by Rob as a nickname

I know someone with a Daphne and Celeste.

A Molly and an Oliver.

My sister’s ex was called James Angus
His brother was Angus Charles
and his other brother Charles James.

Charlotte and her brother Charles 😏.
Tennis star Roger Federer has twin boys called Leo and Lenny (basically two diminutives of Leonard).
I know a married couple both Sam and another both Lesley/ Leslie.

Brothers Bill and Ben

Also know brothers Bill and Ben! And brothers Ronnie and Reggie.

I know a Jo and Joe (Joanne and Joseph, respectively). Nothing subconscious about it though, their parents were quite clear that it was a deliberate choice.

Old neighbour had a Jamie and Amie!

My aunts, all siblings go as follows...
Maureen, Doreen, Kathleen, Irene, Aileen. Daughter number 6 (my mum and the last baby) is Tracey.

There's a couple of uncles in there too. My granny must have ran out of een names by the time my mum came along!

Distant family member has 5 girls all with names that are an anagram of her own (plus the odd extra letter) all of the children's names have the same initial and some are practically the same name and sound the same.... I read the whole post the see if anyone else knew them and had mentioned it! - utterly crazy to me

Also have a Charlie and Lola in distant family- I believe they were named prior to the tv show!

Harry and henry wtc are all names in their own rights now though
Same as jack and john etc

@vroom321 children school books character were janet and john

Lee and Leigh 🙄

The lady in the bed next to my sister on the post natal ward had twins, Mickey & Minnie. The new mum took great delight in informing my sister they honeymooned in DisneyWorld. Poor kids!

I know a ( forty something's ) siblings called Richard and Judy