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[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

I always think it's interesting when parents sound like they could be in sibsets or have little quirks in their names in common with their children.

For example out of people I know,

Tiffany (the name of a pop star in the late 80s; born in 1992) had Miley (like Miley Cyrus; born in 2010).
Christina (b. 1991) had Neveah (b. 2009) and Faith (b. 2010).

and let's not forget this "type":
Brenda(b. 1970) had Brendan (b. 1992).


Has anyone else noticed anything like that? WDYT? 

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[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

For a second I was really confused. "What? She was born in 1992 but she was a pop star in the late 80s?" Lol. I fail.

The closest thing I've ever come across to that is a couple with the same first initial who gave all of their kids that same first initial.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

I've seen that, too. Both parents, all four kids, and the dog's name started with the letter K.

[bookity.livejournal.com]

I've seen one parent, all four kids, and dogs name started w/ R.

[birdsonthewire.livejournal.com]

This is a crazy story that I swear is 100% true: my cousin is named Monica. She first had a daughter and named her Rachel then they had a son (his name is Owen but that's not relevent to the story lol) and then they had a surprise third pregnancy and they had a second daughter who they named Phoebe.

All the girls in the family are therefore: Monica (the mother), Rachel, and Phoebe
(these are all of the female characters on the show Friends and yes she did name Phoebe on purpose to complete the Friends *thing* (however I don't think she chose Rachel's name to have anything to do with the show, it jus happened that way so I guess she figured why not when they were pregnant with another girl? Lol idk)

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

That's awesome because they're all nice names and it's just kind of fun without being silly.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

That's a weird brand of cute, imo

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

I know someone whose two oldest children are Will and Grace. I can't remember her third child's name...

[gamagatchi.livejournal.com]

My fiance is a Garion, named for the character from The Belgariad and The Malloreon books.

Our brand-spanking-new little babby is Roland, as in the main character from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'd picked Roland out as a baby name when I was like thirteen, it just happened to work out that both father and son have names pulled from literature because Garion loves the name too.

[canadagirl.livejournal.com]

I babysat for a family when I was a teen. The parents were Stephen (Steven?) and Michelle. The kids were Stephanie and Mitchel.

A friend of mine growing up - 2 parents, son, daughter - Girls both start with J, boys both start with D.

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith did that, too! Their daughter is Willow and their son is Jayden. I've always thought it was adorable.

I also know a family of Sandra and Kenneth who had Kenzie and Kenny.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I have cousins named Laura and Mara (pronounced like Mary with an "a", not Mah-ra, but still).

My dad also has a cousin who named her kids Colin, Caitlin, Cameron (girl), and Chloe. And their last name begins with a K.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Both of my sons have names from Michael Chabon novels. Grady and August.

[greyhowl.livejournal.com]

I have a son named August, too :)

[anovulation.livejournal.com]

My mom and aunt are Sharon and Karen. Four years apart. :/

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

My friend's parents couldn't think of English names for their kids (they came here from India) and so they let their neighbour name them in English... Sharon, Karen and Arron. (They have completely different Indian names, I don't remember my friend's or her sister's but the brother is Gurpreet).

My step-sisters' mom is a twin, Joanne - her sister is Jennifer. And on their father's side there are a lot of twins as well. The only sets I've met were Margot and Margery; Kerry and Karen; Justin and Joshua; and Pete and Charley.

Someone I went to school with had 2 younger sisters... Together they were Kristen, Kelly and Kerry. At the other end of the spectrum, there was a guy I went to school with whose parents had just come from Poland before he was born and they named him Staush... then 2 years later they had a girl and named her Jamie ... total name opposites. Same with my friend Justin who is Italian... I feel like his name is fairly common/english and then his sister is Anna-Cecelia.

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

Oh and my friend is the middle of 3 daughters... Cheryl June, Cindy Jade and Carolyn Julia. Their mom is Catarina Jemima and their father is Cesar Javier.
Cindy and my mutual friend is also Carolyn Julia :)

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

My ex husband's aunt and uncle did that with R. Rudy and Robin were the parents, Rudy Jr, Rebecca and Rachel were the kids. Plus Robin had two sisters that both started with R, and the two sisters also married men with names that started with R. They thought it was cute. None of the names were weird or forced to fit with the theme so it was fine. I couldn't do that here, I get tongue twisted too easily!

[sictransitsuzy.livejournal.com]

Leah from Teen Mom 2 named her twin daughters Aleeah and Aliannah (they call them Leah and Ali) ._________.

[chaichilaquiles.livejournal.com]

My mom's middle name is Elizabeth (first born in her family), my middle name is Elizabeth (also I am first born) and my son's middle name is Elias. I wouldn't say it was done completely on purpose, but when I noticed that little "quirk" as you say, I liked it. I am going to have a daughter soon, but I don't think we will give her Elizabeth as a middle name.

[rubberducky1467.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I've seen that.

Parents: Michael and Joanna
Children: Micah, Anna, and Jonah

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

I used to know a couple, Aaron and Erin (okay, cute that they fell in love and happened to have 'the same' name)... but then they had twins, a boy and a girl, and named them Aaron and Erin. WHY?! When I first saw it in the church bulletin, I thought it was a joke... but no. :(

My dad's family has a lot of the same letters just coincidentally... everyone in my generation, including their spouses, has names that start with either J or K (or a K sound):

Joan married Jared
James married Chrissy
Krysta married Kevin
and Kaitlyn is as of yet unmarried but knows she must end up with somebody whose name starts with J or K. ;)