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

Reminds me of this article, the parents named all 11 of their children using the same 4 letters 😲

www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-dad-11-children-theyve-27616540.amp

This reminds me of the Scavo family on Desperate Housewives whose children's names all started with the letter P
Porter, Preston, Parker, Penny and Paige

I remember doing placement at a nursery a few years back and there were twins called Kate and Elizabeth.

@pawkins I know similar; a Danielle from my school married a Daniel. They both go by either Dan or Danny. Confusing!

I also enjoy the fictional Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-Tail and… Peter!

I knew a family from work. All the girls had names like Star, Serenity, Destiny etc then one brother, something like Jack. I always wondered if he felt sad or happy for his ordinary name

Did they give a logic behind it?

I know a couple who named their daughters Helena and Eleanor, which depending how you pronounce them and what your accept is like, can sound almost identical.

What’s wrong with Kate and Elizabeth?

Nothings wrong with them, I just automatically made the link to Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton at the time, so a royal link.

They're lovely names!

Ah I didn’t even make the connection. I would if they were Kate and Pippa or William and Harry though.

@MolkosTeenageAngst , Harry can be short for Harold or Henry.

I know siblings called John and Jane, and a mother and daughter with rhyming names (not the names but something like Olly and Hollie)

I know a mum Lisa and daughter Louisa, which I thought was a bit twee.

Billy and Liam
Im sure the mum had no idea they were both William

I know a Thomas and Geraldine, and a William and Harry,
Friend's sibling liked the name William but decided against because DS1 was Benjamin

I met twins called Chardonnay and Shiraz ... the mother proudly explained she chose the names because they were classy . I moved not long after but wonder if they changed their names once older

*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'.*

Whats wrong with Bernard?

I’m trying to figure this one out too. It’s a perfectly normal name. I’d prefer it over Ben,Oliver, Jack any day.

I still go hot all over when I think of this conversation:

We had recently moved to a new area and I was chatting to a mum who was a bit of a local queen bee. She told me that she had four children: Imogen, Harriet, Octavia, and Rupert. I got very excited, thinking that four relatively unusual names on a theme surely couldn’t be a coincidence, and asked her if she was also a Jilly Cooper fan.

She wasn’t. She hadn’t heard of the early novels, or Rupert Campbell-Black, and she really did not appreciate my explanations of the works. She actually picked up her stuff and moved to the other side of the room.

We did not become friends.

Charlie and Lola

Paul, Paula and Pauline.

In some places the middle name was used as the given name, not the first name, so that might be what happened here, eg they both had Hannah as their “middle” name ?

I know a dad (born Alfred but hated it and changed it to Tony) with kids named Anthony and Terry. Tony married a Trish.

When they get mail addressed to "T Smith" they've no idea whose it is.

Honourable mention: the triplets I knew in high school named Faith, Hope and Charity.

Apparently there was a girl a couple of years above me at school called Annette Curtain... Not sure any parent can be that daft though!

I know a family with a Maisie-Rose and a Rosie-Mae

I know a

Mary and Joseph
Martha and Arthur
Ella and Eva