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

Twins named Jayden and kayden

At a baby group - Mum and daughter called Cordelia and Amelia

At my school as a child, a family where the mum was called Jilly and the children Millie, Ellie and Billy

Growing up i knew sisters. Annemarie and Marianne

I once had to tell someone on MN they should decide if they preferred Martha or Arthur for upcoming baby as they had both names on the list and you can’t have siblings Martha and Arthur!!

@ZoyaTheDestroyer 🤣

I know siblings called Stephanie and Stevie.
Also a married couple called Glen and Gwen.
My DH and his sister have the male and female version of the same name,there is a brother between them, so it's not quite so obvious.

I know of two young family members who are siblings called Jack and Rose. Their parents are huge Titanic fans

Karl and Kyle

I knew a Sam and Ella growing up and a Holly Wood (not pair of names but surely her parents must have realised!).

I knew a married couple called Andy and Mandy.

I know couples Nick & Nic (Nicholas & Nicole)
and Kit & Kat (Christopher & Kathryn).

I have a Sam and Poppy (now 17 and 15). I didn't know about the Usborne farm books until my DS got one of them for his third birthday from a mum at toddler group who had assumed (along with all the other mums there), that my DC were named after the characters. I ended up buying all the Sam and Poppy books and my DC loved them.
Even now they are older teenagers, people still ask if they are named after rhe books!

Tippi and Marnie
Tippi Hedren played Marnie in a Hitchcock movie of the same name

Red, blue and sean

Also know a Gordon Bennet and Polly Walley

Mum and son - Kate and William
Parents and daughters - Hollie, Harley, Harriet (Harry) and Halle
Twins - Elspeth and Elizabeth

Harry was always the shortened version of Harold, until Prince Henry appeared and got shortened to Harry. 🤷‍♀️

I know brothers Michael, Nicholas, Richard.
Mickey, Nicky, Ricky.
I actually really like that their full names don't sound matchy, but that the optional nicknames do.

Their mother is called Victoria. Yup, Vicky.

I also know a couple whose names begin with D and F. They have four kids whose names begin with A, B, C and E. (Not named in alphabetical order and I truly don't believe it was intentional until kid 4.)

I know a William and an Edward. Bill and Ted (excellent adventure).

@wottabargain , Harry AFAIK has been short for Henry since at least the 17th Century, so a bit before Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windor

I worked with a woman whose DH was called Shaun. The DC were Shaun and Shauna!

I’m a teacher in a secondary school and I’m not even joking whe I at two sister enrolled this week- Snow and White. We are in Asia but seriously, what the fuck?

Ha, this reminds me of a Gary I knew, he called his twin sons Larry and Barry - I wish I was joking 😅😅

Sean & Dean.
Reading a new story and twin girls called Lara & Lana.
Work colleague had daughters called Milly & Molly surname was Merryweather, very twee.

Also know siblings William and Edward who go by nn of Bill & Ted. I’m sure the nn were intentional.

Harry was always the shortened version of Harold, until Prince Henry appeared and got shortened to Harry.

My gran's brother, born around 1905, was always known as Harry but I found out through doing family history research that he was Henry on birth certificate. Similarly, her brother Jack was actually John.

Harry was always the shortened version of Harold, until Prince Henry appeared and got shortened to Harry.

That's not so. It didn't start with Prince Henry/Harry.

Harry has been an affectionate version for Henry ever since Norman French arrived on the island, producing the Harry sound from the French Henri where the N is voiced with the back of the tongue, not the tip.

We have a Charlie and called the cat Lola 😁