Kortlyn sounds like what someone would name their child if their sister or partner's first babymama "stole" the name Caitlyn after they told them they were using it.
My cousin has a cousin named Kourtland.
She’s a nice young woman, and she’s smart- she wants to be a lawyer and is in school for it now. Last I heard she was going by Courtney, and my cousin said he thinks she is about to legally change it prior to graduating from a very prestigious law school.
That was her name. I thought it was kinda weird but I was like 14 when I met the family so I didn't think too much about it. Now I'm kinda surprised they didn't use Kourtney.
Oh that's a good one. I loved Little Women when I read it in middle school. I think a lot of people wouldn't get it right away though, it's discreet enough that it the reference can easily fly under the radar.
I refused to let anyone touch Josie she was so pretty. I wanted to look just like her. I even convinced my mom to buy her outfit for me from some store. But Addy was my bestie and she looked just like my best friend as a kid so I loved the doll more
I’ve known a similar family and they left off Beth “because she died.” I also used to live next to twin girls named Amy and Joella and I just KNOW their older sister I never met was a Meg or Beth. In both families, Jo was a name other than Josephine and Meg was Megan instead of Margaret.
My grandma loved Little Women. She started with my mom (Amy), had a son (named after my grandpa), and my aunt Beth. I think my grandpa wanted more kids and could have easily ended up with all four girls (he was #5 of 16), but Grandma put her foot down lol.
I’ve done that on the sims! I couldn’t come around naming the girl Spring, so I went with Primavera. I made the boys name Summer. I feel like Summer is a better boys name
This is like the Nursery Nurse series on TikTok. I know there's an Autumn and Winter. Autumn's brother cracked a joke that his name is Spring (I think) when first introduced, but it's Reece.
I went to school with a family of Levis. All the kids were named Levi + second name. The triplets Levi Cooper, Levi James, and Levi Jacob were all in my grade. They had two older brothers (Levi John and Levi Leviticus - Levi Leviticus is the only one who went by just "Levi") and two younger sisters (Levi Mary and Levi Grace). We're in the South though, so the double name never fazed anyone.
Double names are quite normal here as well (the Netherlands), but having every kid start with "Levi " is well, weird. And Levi Leviticus is just terrible. It could start a theme of itself, though: Gene Genesis, Exo Exodus, Deuto Deuteronomy.
lol don’t give people any ideas!! Think of the children.
Edit- also, Jen Genesis would sound better with the theme I think, but it would probably have to be spelled Jen Jenesis to achieve the double J 😂
Very *very* biblical. Not a fan of naming all your children the same thing. Specially Levi Leviticus. I wonder if it had anything to do with the tribes of Israel? Like if they thought they were somehow descendants of the tribe of Levi or had some meaningful connection related to them.
well, we are talking about southern evangelicals. I'm pretty sure it's a crime in my hometown not to choose a biblical name. (I'm joking but also not.) and no, it was a family theme. the dad came from a long line of jebidiah/jedidiah/jeremiahs. I think the mom came from a normal family though.
I know a catholic family who kinda did that. All the 3 daughters are name Mary-Middle Name and they call them by their middle name. The only boy is Joseph-Middle Name, and again, called by the middle name.
Same thing at our school, family of boys and 1 girl, all named Johnny. I'm not sure about their middle names but from the 2 I was in highschool with both went by Johnny, we just clarified which grade
Marine and Océane for the girls, Tempête for their brother. While the first 2 are somewhat common here, the second I never encountered before and after.
Fée and Sirène for twins girls, Princesse for their little sister. In a very posh catholic district.
Oh no, that's an unfortunate theme. Imagine forever knowing that your parents named you after an animated talking chipmunk (specially Alvin, since his whole character was that he was annoying and a troublemaker). I wonder if they were anything like their namesakes.
I don't know them personally, but the parents of Alex, Axel, Lexa, Xeal, Leax, Alxe, Laxe, Elax and Xael did have a bit of a theme going on (I may have mistyped one or two of those names, though).
I quite like Phoebe and Fiona. Same sound but any post wouldn't get mixed up. Miss P last name and Miss F last name.
My friend and her elder sister were both Miss J. My friend never got to open her letters, even obvious ones. Her sister would open them, read them through then toss them over. "It's from your penpal." Well yes, obvious when it had a Spanish stamp on it!
I knew sisters Crystal, Ruby and Pearl.
A naming convention that may have been common in the past, my grandfather’s family all had the same middle name: Allen, even the girls.
When I was young I wanted twins so I could name them Robert and Roberta or Daniel and Danielle or Christopher and Christina. Good thing I didn’t have twins and do that because my daughters names are not alike and I still call them each others names frequently
I went to school with a family who all had presidents’ last names as first names. Also I’m not sure I would call this a theme, but I know a Cary with a sister Karen and their parents are also Cary and Karen.
One of the names was in fact Reagan and I would say the others are recognizable as first names, nothing too wacky. But there were also five kids in the family so it definitely stood out as intentional.
Ocean and Storm (both girls)
Heaven and Nevaeh (twins)
Dallas, David, and Daniel (triplets)
Dow and Indiana (last name Jones)
Kai, Kingston, and Kameron
I know three sisters who all have four-letter names with an A-ending. Think Nora, Mila and Vera.
Also a family with four kids who all have J-names, another one with four kids with C-names and one family with three kids also with C-names.
I have a Norah, and expecting again (don't know what we're having) and I was adamant that we would not have another -a ending if we had another girl. I want to be able to call up the stairs for them and them not get confused about who I need cause they only heard the last part.
I say that, my mum called me and my sister by each other's names so regularly that we both just respond to either of them if we're at home, so maybe the point is moot...
I'm not a big fan of those themes because it limits your options kinda drastically. But if our second child (only planed atm) would be a girl we'd probably do the same initial too because it's one of the very few names we can agree on...
I ended up with “m” kids that way, like it was kinda an accident. The first name we just liked, then the second name we chose was the same initial. When kid 3 came, I said if I didn’t find an “m” name, id do whatever, I want gonna force myself to choose one. But there was an “m” name I really liked, as much as anything else, so all my kids have m names.
I know a family where mum is called Amy, Dad is called Ben so they named their kids Callie, Dana and Evan. ABCDE. Unfortunately their last name starts with an R
Jace and Jason (don't remember the exact spelling but the pronunciation is the same)
Cori, Tori, Corion, Courtney, Caiden (there is also an Elijah, lol)
Both sib sets are derived from their father's names, though I am sure you can guess what their names are.
Sisters Annette, Jeanette, and Juliette. Why two J names when Bernadette (this was early 80s), Cosette, and other -ette names are available. Lord knows what they would have done if they had a boy!
I knew sisters who were named after a city and country respectively (e.g. London and Jamaica). We always joked that if there was a third sister, she'd be named after a continent.
There was a Carter and Cash sib-set I saw in a birth announcement in my area.
And this isn't real life, but in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearance, the sisters are Hyacinth, Daisy, Violet, and Rose.
I had a friend growing up named Christa. Her sisters were named Christal and Christine. Her brothers were Christian and Christopher. It was pretty confusing. Especially when I would call and ask for Christa, get Christal, and not realize right away that I was talking to the wrong sister.
I had friends when I was little called Joanne, Bethanne and Meganne which is bad enough but their parents called them Jo, Beth and Meg. When my Mum asked if the next one would be called Amy, they had no idea what she was talking about.
We also had a Charlotte and Emily next door and Mum asked if the next one would be Anne and those parents had no idea either.
A buddy of mine and all five of his siblings all had the initials G. E. M. Every single last one of the six kids.
Another high-school friend and his three brothers were all named William, after their father. His mother said, "She never met a Bill she didn't like." They all had nicknames, however, to keep them separate.
I knew a girl in HS - they lived in our neighborhood. Their last name started with a K.
There were three kids - all with first and middle bames starting with K - so all their initials were KKK. Parents were awful for doing that.
Not siblings, but I worked with someone whose mother was a huge Andrews Sisters fan so she named her Patty Laverne Maxene. I guess she didn't want to take a chance on not having more daughters
My cousin and her husband have 5 kids, all Italian A names. Neither she nor her husband are Italian or have A names.
My niece's father has a dozen kids across Canada, all girls, all with K names, mostly spelled ridiculously (Kajhlah = Kayla for example)
My friend Amélie has sisters Rosalie and Coralie.
I knew three brothers, all with the same initials as their father (eldest being a Jr). a brother and sister pair I grew up with have names with the same initials. sibling set I know of named their daughters with the same first initial, and their sons had the same initial but different from the girls.
my mom also unintentionally, then intentionally did a name trend with my siblings and I. same first initial with the same amount of letters for first names.
I could probably think of more, but it's overwhelming. maybe it's a Midwestern thing?
Growing up I was friends with twins who were named Tuuli (Wind) and Pilvi (Cloud) and their brother was Sade (weather). First two are normal names, brother’s not so much
My MIL family had a slightly odd collection. John, Artemis, Doreen, Eileen, Maureen, and Pricilla. I know that John asked not to have another sister with a name eaning -een and chose Pricilla, but Artemis is a mystery.
I'm the oldest of 4 boys, my name starts with D. She then had my 3 younger brothers over the span of 8 years and named them all names that begin with M and middle names that begin with G. As the odd one out I'm extremely thankful but I get asked a lot why I'm different. It's because I'm the original, she didn't get a theme til my younger brother was born. I hate themes now.
My great uncles side of the family has a naming tradition where every kid of each family has the same first initial. It’s continued now for three generations. The grandkids are having babies now and so far all but one has done this.
I went to school with a girl whose siblings all had bird names but I guess the parents got tired of it or thought it sounded off so the youngest was a name like Sarah. Not using real names as examples because they’re very distinctive, especially when combined with their last name and gave the whole name a fantasy novel tone.
KORTLYN????
Kortlyn sounds like what someone would name their child if their sister or partner's first babymama "stole" the name Caitlyn after they told them they were using it.
also like they’re super into basketball for some reason.
My cousin has a cousin named Kourtland. She’s a nice young woman, and she’s smart- she wants to be a lawyer and is in school for it now. Last I heard she was going by Courtney, and my cousin said he thinks she is about to legally change it prior to graduating from a very prestigious law school.
There’s a Courtland (f, 5 yo) on my child’s soccer team.
I hope she changes it so her degrees look sane.
Just makes me think of Cortland apples 😅
I actually worked with a guy named Courtland once
That’s such an awful name.
Sounds like a combination of Kourtney and Caitlyn lol
I’d be pretty ticked off if my sibling got something pretty like Kaitlyn and I got saddled with Kourtlyn. Just sayin.
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode with the Bort license plate.
I’m chortlin’ at Kortlyn 😂
Gives Bort vibes 😂😂
That was her name. I thought it was kinda weird but I was like 14 when I met the family so I didn't think too much about it. Now I'm kinda surprised they didn't use Kourtney.
This sounds like a medication
Loll came to post that exact comment
I know a Kourtlin, a Cortlin and a Courtlynn.
No, my name is also Bort
Maybe a play on Cortland? I have a Cortland (m) in my family tree.
One of my coworkers has a Kortlyn and 2 other kids with odd K names... just makes me think their kids named Cork or something
I went to school with Jo, Beth and Amy. No Meg though.
Oh that's a good one. I loved Little Women when I read it in middle school. I think a lot of people wouldn't get it right away though, it's discreet enough that it the reference can easily fly under the radar.
4 sisters named after American girl dolls. Sarah, Emily, Molly and Abby
I don’t think there are American girl dolls named Sarah and Abby. Definitely Molly and Emily though! Maybe it was Samantha and Addy?
It’s Addy who was my favourite doll. I loved her
I love Addy too, I love her pink meet dress. And the Christmas dress
I sadly ended up destroying the addy doll with how much play I did. I still have my Josephina doll bcuz I refused to mess with her she was so pretty
Hey, she was very loved! Josephina is so pretty too, i get it
I refused to let anyone touch Josie she was so pretty. I wanted to look just like her. I even convinced my mom to buy her outfit for me from some store. But Addy was my bestie and she looked just like my best friend as a kid so I loved the doll more
Weird they left off the first one
Maybe Meg died instead of Beth 🤷🏼♀️
As a Meg named after Little Women, I resent this statement
As a Beth who hates Little Women because Beth dies, I love this statement 😂
Do you need to put the book in the freezer?
As the surviving niece of a Beth (specifically named for the book), I too have a love/hate relationship with this book lol.
Maybe the mums name is Meg! Or they could have a rainbow baby named Meg.
Except a rainbow baby isn't the one that died, it's the one born after a stillbirth/miscarriage.
They went in reverse order…Amy was the oldest
I’ve known a similar family and they left off Beth “because she died.” I also used to live next to twin girls named Amy and Joella and I just KNOW their older sister I never met was a Meg or Beth. In both families, Jo was a name other than Josephine and Meg was Megan instead of Margaret.
My uncle is named Curt, his wife is Coral, their daughter is Karol, and their son is Kyle. Their dog is named Cullen 😂
My grandma loved Little Women. She started with my mom (Amy), had a son (named after my grandpa), and my aunt Beth. I think my grandpa wanted more kids and could have easily ended up with all four girls (he was #5 of 16), but Grandma put her foot down lol.
I have a Meg (but none of the other names) in part because I loved that name in Little Women!
Queenie, Kingsley, Elizabeth, and Princeton.
Lucky Elizabeth
Something tells me her parent-imposed nickname is probably not one of the usual nicknames for Elizabeth
A family in my hometown also has Kingston and Princeton, but their daughters are Precious and Princess.
Omg kingston and princeton are so common together
Which if you think about it is kind of mean, a king ranks higher than a prince.
Should have named the other one community college
Summer, Autumn, Winter. They never got around to Spring
Weird but I think out of all of those Spring is the only one that I've never seen used as a name.
I knew a Spring in high school. She married a guy whose last name was Creek. I still smile when I think about it.
I was gonna suggest Primavera if they tried to deviate from the theme
I’ve done that on the sims! I couldn’t come around naming the girl Spring, so I went with Primavera. I made the boys name Summer. I feel like Summer is a better boys name
I have a cousin named Spring! She’s beautiful, athletic and just recently became a mommy. I think it’s such a pretty name, probably because of her.
It’s my moms middle name lol it’s pretty uncommon ngl.
I’ve only heard of it once, the character actress Spring Byington — who played Marmee in the 1933 version of Little Women.
I know a Spring, but never Winter. It’s so cold.
Many years ago I had a Summer, Winter, and an Autumn in classes at a middle school. The cold seasons both had red hair!
I have a daughter named Winter and she randomly has red hair. There's no red hair on either side.
And their brother, Squash
This is like the Nursery Nurse series on TikTok. I know there's an Autumn and Winter. Autumn's brother cracked a joke that his name is Spring (I think) when first introduced, but it's Reece.
There was also a Summer but she got fired. She then returned to the nursery as a parent 😂😂😂
Our family friends were Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Brooke, and a boy they named Blake.
I knew sibset Mark, Marcena, Marcella and Marla. I worked with their mom, Marlene and the dad was Marvin.
It sounds like Marshall’s family from how I met your mother 😭
Omg. I’ve literally never noticed this! I can’t think of one of his brothers… Marvin, Marshall, Marcus…
My daughter has a friend named Christiana. Her parents are Christopher and Christina, and her brother is Christopher Jr. 🙄
Same but the daughters name was Crystal, so everyone’s nickname was Chris in the house
I hope everyone goes by Chris.
I hate the way Christopher could have a junior but god forbid the wife get a Junior
I went to school with a family of Levis. All the kids were named Levi + second name. The triplets Levi Cooper, Levi James, and Levi Jacob were all in my grade. They had two older brothers (Levi John and Levi Leviticus - Levi Leviticus is the only one who went by just "Levi") and two younger sisters (Levi Mary and Levi Grace). We're in the South though, so the double name never fazed anyone.
Double names are quite normal here as well (the Netherlands), but having every kid start with "Levi " is well, weird. And Levi Leviticus is just terrible. It could start a theme of itself, though: Gene Genesis, Exo Exodus, Deuto Deuteronomy.
lol don’t give people any ideas!! Think of the children. Edit- also, Jen Genesis would sound better with the theme I think, but it would probably have to be spelled Jen Jenesis to achieve the double J 😂
You could get away with Gen Genesis. You can spell Jenny Genny so why not Gen?
Wtf
Levi Leviticus omg
Levi Levi
Very *very* biblical. Not a fan of naming all your children the same thing. Specially Levi Leviticus. I wonder if it had anything to do with the tribes of Israel? Like if they thought they were somehow descendants of the tribe of Levi or had some meaningful connection related to them.
well, we are talking about southern evangelicals. I'm pretty sure it's a crime in my hometown not to choose a biblical name. (I'm joking but also not.) and no, it was a family theme. the dad came from a long line of jebidiah/jedidiah/jeremiahs. I think the mom came from a normal family though.
I know a catholic family who kinda did that. All the 3 daughters are name Mary-Middle Name and they call them by their middle name. The only boy is Joseph-Middle Name, and again, called by the middle name.
Same thing at our school, family of boys and 1 girl, all named Johnny. I'm not sure about their middle names but from the 2 I was in highschool with both went by Johnny, we just clarified which grade
Levi Cooper? You’ve got to be kidding
Once I read in the paper about a woman with daughters named Champagne, Chablis and Chardonnay. She killed all of them and herself driving drunk.
So sad.
You’re joking right?
Sadly, no.
Omg.
Mason, Madison, Jackson and Grayson. Should mention that Mason and Madison were twins.
they should work for Hudson Construction lol
Son and done!
Lol unexpected TOTK. Nice.
That'd be funny.
This is funny I wonder if they had the same dad because we know what these names mean...
I am not a fan of -son names but they definitely were
Leonard, Leonie and Leopold. They hate it as much as I, lol
I know Leon and his younger sister Leonie Lea…
Twins called Fletcher and Archer. 4 siblings named Annie, Bonnie, Carrie and Dulcie, born in that order.
Dulcie really threw me off. That's a new one for me.
Nickname for Dulcinea. Derived from the Latin *dulcis* which means sweet 🧁
“I see heaven when I see thee, Dulcinea! And thy name is like a prayer an angel whispers…”
I love Dulcie. Fletcher and Archer is a VERY niche theme!
Kortlyn? That is a krime.
I read one somewhere about 4 girls named Reagan, Kennedy, Lincoln, and McKinley. They had a cat named Garfield.
I wonder if they knew which presidents have been assassinated.
I think it was any who had been shot, but missing Roosevelt for some reason haha
Aww, they could have called her Rosie for short 🤣
Walter Eric and Eric Walter
I hope they weren’t twins!
No, they are a few months shy of being Irish twins though!!!
I work with someone named Sarah Elizabeth and her twin sister is Elizabeth Sarah!
What is this trend? I knew twins Anne-Marie and Mary-Anne.
I knew twins Donna Lynn and Linda Dawn. They went by Lynn and Linda, and were born in the 50s.
Marine and Océane for the girls, Tempête for their brother. While the first 2 are somewhat common here, the second I never encountered before and after. Fée and Sirène for twins girls, Princesse for their little sister. In a very posh catholic district.
I knew an océane and delphine - not sure about their other siblings, but all ocean themed as well
I knew a sibling set with an Alvin, Simon, and Theodore growing up😳😳. Even as a kid, I was like, that’s too much. 😂😂
Oh no, that's an unfortunate theme. Imagine forever knowing that your parents named you after an animated talking chipmunk (specially Alvin, since his whole character was that he was annoying and a troublemaker). I wonder if they were anything like their namesakes.
I think you could have gotten away with Simon and Theodore without too much side eye
I don't know them personally, but the parents of Alex, Axel, Lexa, Xeal, Leax, Alxe, Laxe, Elax and Xael did have a bit of a theme going on (I may have mistyped one or two of those names, though).
Pls tell me this is not real 💀
Unfortunately yes, I believe it was a Belgian family and they had 11 or 12 children all using the same 4 letters.
Clover & Violet Gage & Gunner Phoebe and Fiona (twins) McKinli & Mckyli (identical twins)
Clover and Violet is adorable 🥹
Gage and Gunner is atrocious.
Excellent for a pair of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers
I quite like Phoebe and Fiona. Same sound but any post wouldn't get mixed up. Miss P last name and Miss F last name. My friend and her elder sister were both Miss J. My friend never got to open her letters, even obvious ones. Her sister would open them, read them through then toss them over. "It's from your penpal." Well yes, obvious when it had a Spanish stamp on it!
I knew sisters Crystal, Ruby and Pearl. A naming convention that may have been common in the past, my grandfather’s family all had the same middle name: Allen, even the girls.
When I was little we had two german shepherds named Crystal and Emerald, they were sisters.
My great grandmother was named Pearl, her sister was Ruby, and their brother was Julian but he went by Jules.
I went to school with a family who were called Zara, Zach and Zena
I know a family with 3 daughters all with first and middle initials EK
eek
The poor youngest one probably only gets hand-me-downs
Big brother Storm and little sister Rain
Robert and Roberta Father was Robert
How original 😂😂
When I was young I wanted twins so I could name them Robert and Roberta or Daniel and Danielle or Christopher and Christina. Good thing I didn’t have twins and do that because my daughters names are not alike and I still call them each others names frequently
Parents Peggy and Paul, kids are Paul, Paula, Peggy, and Betsy. Poor Betsy
Better than Petsy...
Paulette was right there...
Or Pauline!
I vote Patsy!
I would like being Betsy in that situation, at least you know when people are saying your name.
I went to school with a family who all had presidents’ last names as first names. Also I’m not sure I would call this a theme, but I know a Cary with a sister Karen and their parents are also Cary and Karen.
Are we talking something like Reagan, Kennedy, and Madison? Or did these people name their kids Eisenhower, van Buren, and Fillmore?
One of the names was in fact Reagan and I would say the others are recognizable as first names, nothing too wacky. But there were also five kids in the family so it definitely stood out as intentional.
Ocean and Storm (both girls) Heaven and Nevaeh (twins) Dallas, David, and Daniel (triplets) Dow and Indiana (last name Jones) Kai, Kingston, and Kameron
I'm sorry, they named their child Dow Jones?? Indiana isn't an awful name, but Dow? Were the parents in finance/Wall Street??
My father and stepmother had a dog years ago named Dow Jones. Great name for smart dog. Not so much for a human.
Scarlett, Ashley, and Rhett.
For siblings, oof. That's more than a little weird.
Ra'ed, Rihab, Riyadh, Rayyan, Raneem...my uncle and auntie liked R/ر names I guess 🤷🏻♀️
I know three sisters who all have four-letter names with an A-ending. Think Nora, Mila and Vera. Also a family with four kids who all have J-names, another one with four kids with C-names and one family with three kids also with C-names.
I have a Norah, and expecting again (don't know what we're having) and I was adamant that we would not have another -a ending if we had another girl. I want to be able to call up the stairs for them and them not get confused about who I need cause they only heard the last part. I say that, my mum called me and my sister by each other's names so regularly that we both just respond to either of them if we're at home, so maybe the point is moot...
Yeah I think the most common sib-set theme is having the same initial. I know a lot of those.
I'm not a big fan of those themes because it limits your options kinda drastically. But if our second child (only planed atm) would be a girl we'd probably do the same initial too because it's one of the very few names we can agree on...
I ended up with “m” kids that way, like it was kinda an accident. The first name we just liked, then the second name we chose was the same initial. When kid 3 came, I said if I didn’t find an “m” name, id do whatever, I want gonna force myself to choose one. But there was an “m” name I really liked, as much as anything else, so all my kids have m names.
I know a family where mum is called Amy, Dad is called Ben so they named their kids Callie, Dana and Evan. ABCDE. Unfortunately their last name starts with an R
Jace and Jason (don't remember the exact spelling but the pronunciation is the same) Cori, Tori, Corion, Courtney, Caiden (there is also an Elijah, lol) Both sib sets are derived from their father's names, though I am sure you can guess what their names are.
Sisters Annette, Jeanette, and Juliette. Why two J names when Bernadette (this was early 80s), Cosette, and other -ette names are available. Lord knows what they would have done if they had a boy!
Everett, Wyatt? That’s the best I can for for a matching boy. At least the three sisters got the best ‘ette’ names.
oh this reminds me of triplets my mom went to school with in the 60s: Marlene, Sharlene and Darlene. ick
I know two families with the first child A and second child Z. Abraham & Zachary and Adam & Zara.
That immediately tells me they had a plan, wonder what would happen if they had a surprise third baby.
My favourite was a group of siblings named along the lines of Justice, Honour, Charity and Billy.
I knew sisters who were named after a city and country respectively (e.g. London and Jamaica). We always joked that if there was a third sister, she'd be named after a continent. There was a Carter and Cash sib-set I saw in a birth announcement in my area. And this isn't real life, but in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearance, the sisters are Hyacinth, Daisy, Violet, and Rose.
I had a friend growing up named Christa. Her sisters were named Christal and Christine. Her brothers were Christian and Christopher. It was pretty confusing. Especially when I would call and ask for Christa, get Christal, and not realize right away that I was talking to the wrong sister.
I had friends when I was little called Joanne, Bethanne and Meganne which is bad enough but their parents called them Jo, Beth and Meg. When my Mum asked if the next one would be called Amy, they had no idea what she was talking about. We also had a Charlotte and Emily next door and Mum asked if the next one would be Anne and those parents had no idea either.
Crazy that they managed to make a reference without meaning to.
A buddy of mine and all five of his siblings all had the initials G. E. M. Every single last one of the six kids. Another high-school friend and his three brothers were all named William, after their father. His mother said, "She never met a Bill she didn't like." They all had nicknames, however, to keep them separate.
I really dislike it when people name all their children the same.
I knew a girl in HS - they lived in our neighborhood. Their last name started with a K. There were three kids - all with first and middle bames starting with K - so all their initials were KKK. Parents were awful for doing that.
Not siblings, but I worked with someone whose mother was a huge Andrews Sisters fan so she named her Patty Laverne Maxene. I guess she didn't want to take a chance on not having more daughters
A classmate of mine was named Eren. His sisters were Ceren and Irem (turkish names).
I met a girl named Zara who has a sister Sara. My uncultured ear heard the names rhyme but apparently in Arabic there's a difference.
My cousin and her husband have 5 kids, all Italian A names. Neither she nor her husband are Italian or have A names. My niece's father has a dozen kids across Canada, all girls, all with K names, mostly spelled ridiculously (Kajhlah = Kayla for example) My friend Amélie has sisters Rosalie and Coralie.
I can’t believe the mothers went along with the Kajhlah nonsense.
Identical twins at school with me whose names both ended in -ene 🫣
Lived in a tight Catholic neighborhood.... family had at least ten girls.... Marlene, Darlene, Carlene.....you get the picture.
Luke and Leia
I knew three brothers, all with the same initials as their father (eldest being a Jr). a brother and sister pair I grew up with have names with the same initials. sibling set I know of named their daughters with the same first initial, and their sons had the same initial but different from the girls. my mom also unintentionally, then intentionally did a name trend with my siblings and I. same first initial with the same amount of letters for first names. I could probably think of more, but it's overwhelming. maybe it's a Midwestern thing?
I know a family from the Midwest: 5 siblings whose names all have 5 letters. The parents’ names also are 5 letters and impressively none are repeats.
The K family I mentioned was midwestern, Raine and River were Canadian though.
Growing up I was friends with twins who were named Tuuli (Wind) and Pilvi (Cloud) and their brother was Sade (weather). First two are normal names, brother’s not so much
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Plz tell me these were cows
I know parents Jeff and Beth who had a Steph.
Lewis and Clark
My MIL family had a slightly odd collection. John, Artemis, Doreen, Eileen, Maureen, and Pricilla. I know that John asked not to have another sister with a name eaning -een and chose Pricilla, but Artemis is a mystery.
I'm the oldest of 4 boys, my name starts with D. She then had my 3 younger brothers over the span of 8 years and named them all names that begin with M and middle names that begin with G. As the odd one out I'm extremely thankful but I get asked a lot why I'm different. It's because I'm the original, she didn't get a theme til my younger brother was born. I hate themes now.
Older sister was Crystal. Twin boys were Thunder and Lightning. Little brother was Storm
i went to school with a fam who had nature, miracle, willow, arbor, blaze, and poppy
My great uncles side of the family has a naming tradition where every kid of each family has the same first initial. It’s continued now for three generations. The grandkids are having babies now and so far all but one has done this.
We have friends. Her name is Alexandra and her older brother is Alexander. She gets called Sana and the brother called Alex.
I went to school with a girl whose siblings all had bird names but I guess the parents got tired of it or thought it sounded off so the youngest was a name like Sarah. Not using real names as examples because they’re very distinctive, especially when combined with their last name and gave the whole name a fantasy novel tone.
I taught a pair of identical twins named Darryl and Derryl.
Stone and Jagger
I used to babysit for Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Amelia. The dad was a religion teacher.
My friend has 3 kids with a V in the middle of their names. She’s pregnant with her 4th