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

Thierry and Messi

How is Johnny and Jack the same name?

Sorry Peter and Jane will only register for those of us who learnt to read with the ladybird books.

I saw on social media twins called Jestin and Jestice

Just remembered that a girl in my class, Aileen had sisters Coleen and Colette.

Ronnie & Reggi
Tia, Talia, Tianna

Jack started as a pet form of John.

JFK, Jack Nicholson, Jack White are/were all named John, but known as Jack.

I know families with siblings :

Katie and Catelyn
Ollie and Ellie (Oliver / Eleanor)
Nancy and Natalie
Jameson, Madison and Jackson

Twins at my daughters primary school:
Oliver and Olivia
Winter and Autumn
Chloe and Cleo
Joseph and Josephine

Siblings from my school days:

Joanne and Anne
Jay and Ray

Twins Freddy and Teddy

I know a pair like this too … are they late40s/early 50s by any chance?

Jack is a form of Kohn as is Johnny.

*John

Feel like most of these were intentional by the parents!

I know parents John and Anne with daughter Joanne which I actually rather like.

That’s a good one! You don’t notice at first, and then you… do, I guess 😄 that’s what I’m looking for haha.

DD1 had brothers in her class called William Jack & William Harry - it was a family thing, all boys were called William & went by their middle names.

There was a girl is DS's class called Erin Abbie, her older sister was called Abbie Erin.

I also used to work with someone who had twins called Ben & Holly - they would've been about 4 when the programme started so just unfortunate. She was always careful to refer to them as Holly & Ben.

My mum is the youngest of 10 and my grandparents had obviously run out of ideas, so her middle name is Norma.

I mean, really...🤷🏻‍♀️

At 6th form I knew a kid called Bernard.

Bless him, he was such a character. As soon as he told you his name, he'd see 'that look' on your face; then he'd say 'my parents hated me'.

I knew a Dean and Deanna growing up. Sibling pair. Always struck me as odd. But 3 of my 4 dc have the same first initial so I can see how things happen sometimes.

Also Joseph and Zoë Sugg (of strictly come dancing/Zoella fame) - Joe and Zoe - good example of why punctuation/diaeresis are important!

Why?

Thats a normal name?

I know a woman called Jo who married a man called Joe. That would put me off any unisex names. Also know a Lesley who is married to a Wesley.

Dp has sibling cousins called Garry and Barry. Just...why ???

An old school friend has an Eliza and a Beth... Same name really.