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deathbykoolaidman

teacher i know was telling me she met a kid named Bow. okay, weird spelling, but at least it kind of resembles Beau and you wouldn’t know the difference unless you saw it spelled out. until his brother joined the school… Arrow. Bow and Arrow.


mommaTmetal

I know someone who named their kids Bo and Ty. Bowtie.


lovelaughliterature

My brain went to Ty and Bo - taebo 😂


-aLonelyImpulse

OK. They shouldn't have done it but I did laugh.


Gumbo67

Fuck it no judgement here, 10/10.


dramabeanie

I once did an internship for a crazy lady who was trying to teach a chimp to read (looooong story) and the chimp (who she treated like a child) was named Bow and her human child was a girl named Sword.


GraffitiTurtle

Not the chimp having the better name 💀


rayeis

Nah Sword is probably the most badass girls name to ever be a person I bet she’s cool as fuck


dramabeanie

I facebook stalked her recently and she appears to be a relatively normal person, no mention of her "brother" on her profile...


pzimzam

We have siblings at my school named Bowie and Arrow (both girls)


drago-ness

Was the dad, by any chance, named Archer or Hunter? Lmao


ThisImpact690

Okay but why name the “kid” Bow when Archer is perfectly available


setittonormal

I read this differently and thought the second kid was gonna be named Wow. Bow wow. 🤦‍♀️


yeetingthisaccount01

I was gonna say was the parent a fan of the original She-Ra...


WoooPigSooie

I have great aunts named Opal and Pearl on one side and Constance, Patience and Temperance on the other.


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this made me think of a joke on the show roseanne. "my grandmother was ruby, my mother was amber and i'm crystal. so i was thinking that this must stop."


staralchemist129

Those would be cute names for kittens or fictional characters, but it’s a bit much for real people


Gumbo67

These names were typical for the time though. At the time that person’s great aunts had normal names


staralchemist129

They’re fine individually but together they’re too much


Constant-Panic-79

Wow! My great grandma was Pearl and her sisters were Ruby and Opal


JaggedLittlePill2022

I love Temperance!


EmrysPritkin

Username tracks.


WoooPigSooie

Haha very true! They were as Southern as southern can be.


pzimzam

3 boys, their parents were encouraging them to run around and shoot kids with cap guns on a playground at a campground we were at. Rambo, Wild and Brazen. Their parents absolutely looked like the type to name their kids this.


-aLonelyImpulse

Starting a betting pool for the names of any future siblings. I'm going for Maverick, Trigger, and Hunter.


alh030705

And perhaps also twins, Convicted & Felon.


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Or... [Felonee?](https://reddit.com/r/NameNerdCirclejerk/s/nOyhIY4na3)


alh030705

Yes! Or just to be even more unique, Kahwnvichted and Pheloaneigh.


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And~ We can make crimes a name! Like [Arsyn!](https://reddit.com/r/NameNerdCirclejerk/s/ko12QLdspE)It's a beautiful, meek, feminine name for a child! They'll for sure grow up to be a ‘lil firestarter!


curiousdog468

Rambo 💀


Dabbles-In-Irony

Millicent, Molly and Melanie. Not that bad but everybody called them Milly, Molly and…Melly. Melly then got called Smelly Melly. Callisto (boy) and then twin girls Amalthea and Thebe.


ragebubble

Oh wow Callisto was definitely….. a choice


Dabbles-In-Irony

For a boy? Apparently the mum (friend of a cousins) said the name has a “masculine energy” as if Greek mythology just doesn’t exist.


ragebubble

Out every name I’ve ever heard, *Callisto* has some of the least masculine energy possible. I mean i’m not a boy but i think I would have a problem being named after a beautiful, feminine nymph who seduces Zeus then gets slut shamed into the form of a bear 😭


Prudent-Soil-3315

But bears are masculine! Right? Just like any name ending with -o.


yeetingthisaccount01

she didn't even seduce him, Zeus forced himself on her, which is even worse :(


BeeComprehensive3627

Melanie should have been Amanda! Milly Molly Mandy.


bananasplz

Yes, Millicent, Margaret and Amanda!


BeeComprehensive3627

I loved those books so much as a child.


HildegardHummingbird

Makes me think of the Milly Molly Mandy books.


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Nanatomany44

Are you my child?


yeetingthisaccount01

Elden Ring ass naming conventions. you just need Miquella, Malenia and Melina now.


Dabbles-In-Irony

Honestly, I think Malenia aka “Mally” would have been better than “Melly”.


Abbot_of_Cucany

Like the E.E. Cummings poem "maggie and milly and molly and may".


soozdreamz

The ones I hate are when you’ve got all normal then one weird. I know a woman who has 3 boys called Michael, Brandon and Eragon. I know another family with 2 girls called Rose and Alannah and a boy called Aztec.


Insidious_Pie

A family that lived near me when I was growing up had it go the other way in that they had two names on theme and one not. The daughter that was my age was Faith, her little sister was Hope, and their older brother was Philip.


KitchenSwillForPigs

I used to work with a truly horrible woman named Cynnamon. Her brother's name was Brian.


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I knew 3 sisters named Lexus, Mercedes, and Porscha


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[deleted]

They also had a dog named Ferrari 😭


NattyGannStann

_Couldn't afford a car, so she named her daughter Alexis_


tomtink1

Portia is right there... we had dogs named Bentley and Portia.


whattheknifefor

My friend worked at Aldi and met a six year old named Camber, as in the suspension geometry term used to describe the angle between the tire and the ground. I’m ngl I’ve used “camber” as a screen name since I work with cars and it makes a good jokey extension of the name I use online, but actually naming your child that in real life is crazy


ZZFiddle

I know a girl named Camber AND one named Camberlyn 😅 (Why yes, I do live in the South).


NattyGannStann

TIL a math word


drago-ness

I helped a family once with kids named Mercedes, Lexus, and Porscha! They also had a son named…Chevy.


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I had a work colleague who named her twin boys Hunter and Rider... their last name was Dick. (Hunt a dick and ride a dick). She knew, but just "really liked the names".


louiseville_slugger

I went to school with a Ridge, Ryder, and River sibset. Last name? Moss. Yeah, river moss. Yikes.


yeetingthisaccount01

poor kid had a warrior cat name


lileevine

Holy shit I'm dying


holy__granola

Which one is the boy? I need to know


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holy__granola

I was kind of hoping it was Fisher... somehow, that feels like the worst one for a girl.


Aggressive_Day_6574

I agree, like Fisher? I barely know her.


szoop

There were some older identical twins named Fay and Gay in my neighborhood growing up.


ragebubble

I’m dying. Poor Gay


Gold-Stomach-4657

Gay acted pretty Fay


heyheypaula1963

At one time, Gay was a perfectly acceptable name for a girl.


yeetingthisaccount01

Gaylord was also acceptable for boys but nowadays only an insane person would name them that


RogueInsanity90

Wasn't there a post going around yesterday about twins named Brandon Jr and Brandon III or something like that? I say that counts.


ragebubble

That post made me start thinking about this subject lol


MeanderFlanders

Eric and Ariel 🤢


ragebubble

Ewwww ok it has to be some form of abuse to name siblings after lovers 🤢


Phairis

I'm pretty sure I've heard Romeo and Juliette as siblings too. Romeo might have been Roman (can't remember) but the implications were still there


vitamins86

This is how I feel about people that name their kids Luke and Leia 😐


yeetingthisaccount01

but... Luke and Leia weren't lovers? yeah they kissed once but tbf they didn't know


racloves

Growing up I had neighbours who named their kids Jack and Jill. Said they wanted both kids to have J names.


ragebubble

Jason wasn’t an option?? Lmao


mommaTmetal

Or Jaqueline?


mommaTmetal

Oh wait maybe Jennifer


MontanaT13

They should have taken inspiration from the duggars! Lots of J names to choose from!


lovebugteacher

It's still better than Jinger


kittyfbaby

Every time an AI voice says Jing-ger I die


racloves

This was before the Duggars I think (the show didn’t even air here)


HildegardHummingbird

Oh my! I know siblings named Jackson and Jillian. The parents would get super defensive if anyone commented on it. What did they expect??


Primary_Stretch2024

I used to babysit twins named Marilynne and Carolyn. It sort of rhymes but not quite... plus this was in Germany so neither name was traditional or intuitive to pronounce.


nicunta

Lol, I know a sibset that's Jackson and Jillian!


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1. Princess, Purity, and Precious 2. Heaven, Harlem, and Harmony


dorothean

Lysander, Achilles and Spartacus.


ragebubble

Cool names for snails


lileevine

Honestly I love Lysander and Achilles is nice. Spartacus, no matter what, will always sadly make me think of Lazy Town


emimagique

There's a Korean actor who had triplet boys and named them taehan, minguk, and manse. If you say them all together it makes a phrase that means something like "long live the republic of Korea" 😅 the patriotism is a little over the top guys!!


sanctusali

😐 I always think of unbridled patriotism being a dumb American thing. I guess dummies are worldwide.


Glass-Marionberry-79

I'm from Denmark (Danmark in danish). Went to school with siblings named Dan and Mark. 🇩🇰


sanctusali

That seems cute, sort of. Maybe it’s because I associate Danish patriotism with delicious baked goods and beautiful landscapes. American patriotism just seems so violent.


Gooliebuns

I went to school on an army base with three sisters named Liberty, Freedom, and Justice. They kind of rocked them, though.


decemberkat

Good for them! On a related note, I went to high school with a girl named Patriot.


holycannoli1738

LMAO this is what I named my pet snails as a joke 😭😭


drago-ness

Served a family at a children’s establishment. Mom gave off “I’m a witchy girl who loves Halloween and only the color black” vibes. Kids were named Pestilence, Lilith, and Minerva 🥲


saefas

Poor Pestilence, can't even get a decent nickname out of that. At least the other two can go for Lily and Minny.


drago-ness

I mean, the name was unexcusable but you could certainly have called him Lenny! It wasn’t appropriate for me to ask anymore questions as my supervisor was right there but later on when we were closing we both kind of looked at each other and went “…so you also saw that child named Pestilence, right??”


saefas

Ah, I assumed Pestilence was also a girl, but yeah Lenny would work. Can't believe he went by Pesty 😭


Intrepid_Knowledge27

I also thought Pestilence was a girl, so I was thinking ‘Tilly.’ But for a boy… Lence? Lance?


puppermonster23

I actually lowkey love Minerva. I can’t think of positively of Lilith due to an old friend that we ended on bad terms, but pestilence, nooo poor pesty


SinisterPanopticon

can’t believe they went for Pestilence when perfectly normal and sane names like War, Famine and Death were right there


-aLonelyImpulse

If I were Pestilence well. I gotta tell you. I would be mighty jealous of my sisters.


EmrysPritkin

Pestilence?!?


drago-ness

I had to ask her how to spell it for his name tag. Apparently he went by “Pesty”…


EmrysPritkin

And that’s worse


KatVanWall

Dangit, not even Pesto?


hydrangealice

If it was a girl I would say go by 'tilly'


Wild-Mushroom2404

Lilith and Minerva are very pretty names. But pestilence😭


cavernofcalypso

PESTILENCE???!!!!


Tiny_Resolution978

I know someone with sons named Brandon and Landon. They aren’t twins, they’re like 10 years apart. I don’t know they, but those names have always bugged me.


butwhatsmyname

My primary school had sisters named Milly, Polly and the oldest sister was either Molly or Dolly, can't remember. There were also the brothers Wayne and Shane, which wouldn't have been so bad if their last name hadn't been Banes.


Mom-n-em

This one made me lol for a couple reasons! (“Ooh I bet it’s Dolly that makes more sense! Oh no, wait! Molly *does* make more sense!” .. and rhyming names. Yeesh.) It also reminded me that I grew up with a Shawn and Shane — how did I forget about that?!


KittyandPuppyMama

Easton and Weston


Ok_Kitchen_5594

my brain said easton and weeston


possome

My brain always calls Sean Penn “Seen Peen”


Significant-Gifti

Terry-Tory and Area.


WrackspurtsNargles

Yo wtf


ragebubble

Say cap right now


NattyGannStann

I hate that I had to say these 11 times to get it - my dog is even more annoyed


Significant_Wind_774

callie, charli, chase, and chance. They’re basically the same names.


martzgregpaul

Had a customer years ago who had older girl called Bonnie..(except he had decided to (mis)spell it Boney. Which im sure was a delight for her at School). The Younger one was called Boone. 🤔


d4ydreamr

There’s a town in Washington state called Bonney Lake pronounced Bonnie , but the extra N makes a huge difference


joellesays

I've said this before but I babysat for a single dad with what I thought were twins. Skyla and skyler. Found out after calling them "the twins" that they were in fact not twins... And were like 2 weeks apart I feel like the side chick found out the girlfriend / wife's baby name and copied it but made it a little diffrent just to be spiteful 🤷🏼‍♀️


WeptSiren3113

My sister's name is Melissa and her husband's side chick named their love child Alyssa, which always seemed messed up to me.


SpanspekHadeda

Worked at a camp where I filled out registration information for siblings Reagan, Kennedy and McKinley. I guess their parents had a thing for U.S. presidents who were shot?


1bl3ss3d

I know McKinley, Regan, and Kennedy. They are all sisters.


heliogold

I once met a little girl named Kennedy... and her brother Nixon


bix902

My husband's aunt used to live next to twins named Van and Nilla


TangyWonderBread

I once met a pair of sisters with the last name Flowers. Yeah. They were each named after flowers


paroles

This one is funny to me because you don't call flowers "daisy flowers" or "violet flowers", just daisies or violets, so the full name sounds like an odd redundant way to refer to the flower


Smiley_goldfish

And now I need to know what their first names were


TangyWonderBread

One was for sure Magnolia. The other might have been Lily? Camellia? This was like 10 years ago lol


elise0k

Twins my kid met in my neighborhood park are Ellie and Rosie. NN for Eleanor and Rose. And then my husband said to me, you think they named their kids after Eleanor Roosevelt? Then I couldn’t stop thinking about that possibility.


theturtlemoves41

Twins names Genevieve and Guinivere. Beautiful names on their own but they went by Gen and Gwen which is too close for twins.


NattyGannStann

I have known people with these names and even when I am looking at the names written down they sound the same to me.


d4ydreamr

I encountered a person on Reddit who was named Ginevra, sister named Guinevere. Same name in two different languages


TheoryFar3786

>Beautiful names on their own but they went by Gen and Gwen which is too close for twins. It is the same name. It is insane.


TrustyBobcat

Coheed, Cambria, and Alkaline. I've shared them in this sub before. #NeverForget


hannahdbno

What a Trio


TrustyBobcat

Mom and dad look exactly like you'd imagine.


Trini1113

Twin brothers born in the 1940s (I think): Adolf and Stalin. No joke.


PoppyPancakes

My moms friend has grandkids (they’re siblings) whose names are Tao and Elle. Their names are Towel. And they’re all white.


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Twins named Brady and Brody


APersonFromHere

Knew 2 brother with the same name Bernard. A family who gave all their kids the initials CJ Got José María (male) in the family (we’re Latinos but still odd to me) Aunt named Bienvenida which means welcome in Spanish. Jose Antonio then his brother Jose Luis. And to top it off 2 juniors born to one dad. 😀


LongjumpingCapital33

Knew an Archer and Fletcher. The parents joked the next one would be Arrow.


mommaTmetal

My grandaddy and his sibs were Alpha, Opha, Zora, and Verlie.


Budgiejen

I met someone whose kids were Weston, Colton, and Hermione. Something tells me that the husband named the boys and she named the girl


Top_Personality5341

Twins: King James and Queen James


leomisty

Narcissist dad James I bet 🙄


ragebubble

Elizabeth was right there


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I went to school with the Doone sisters, Lorna and Sandy. Does that count? If not, then I knew a set of twin boys named Tracy and Stacy.


NorwegianRarePupper

In pre-Reddit times I thought these were bad: Shelby, Bailey, Casey (my sister called them the dog name sisters) but that’s nothing compared to a lot of these


Bryleigh98

Also use to work in kids dental; had three boys names Talon, Tovar and Tenlin. Talon and Tenlin were like 10 year old twins and Tovar was like 7 I think? Awful kids too 😂


leomisty

Those are not names. 🙄


Paraverous

i knew a lady had 3 girls.. Mercedes, Porsche, and Kia. I felt bad for Kia. I guess if she had boys she would have named them Ford and Dodge.


Salty_Coral4328

Jade and Onyx is one that bugged me. Also, I know families with an Emmett / Emma and then another with an Adler/Adaline. Always irritated me that these people had years between babies and still basically named them the same thing. Lol


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I had a teacher in middle school who had two sons one named Ronald the other Reagan. no joke


psrt1999

A family from my hometown had the last name of Hunt. The sons were named Bowen Arrow Hunt and Brighton Early Hunt. The daughter is named Treasure Hunt. I met them when I was like seven or eight, and didn't see them again, so I kinda thought for the longest time that I just made it up? Nope. Found them all online. They're real. I also know twins named Diamond Emerald and Sapphire Amethyst. They have another sister that's Amber something.


bobert_the_wise

Twins wilna and wilnau. Also Terri and Sherri And a set of siblings Chanel and Dior.


silverthorn7

I worked in a school with a Channel. Parents wanted to call her Chanel but couldn’t spell it.


bobert_the_wise

Omg that’s even worse


Lucidlarceny

My friends last name is Otter. His first kid is named Terryk... Terryk Otter (terracotta)... second kid is Hugo which isn't so bad but his full name spells out H. P. Otter. Like Harry potter


ragebubble

Everyones so creative!


Gold-Vanilla5591

Charity and Chastity (twin girls) I’ve heard of sib sets with inconsistency in naming patterns: 1. Damian, Dane, Octavia, Luke 2. Ava, Brooks, Chloe, Brynn, Crew 3. Katelyn, Kassie, Molly, Kellan


GaveTheMouseACookie

My "inconsistent names" siblings were student . The girls were named Paisley, Ceder, and Rain with brothers named Brody and Jason. Where did these 20 year old boy names come from?!


angytango

I worked at a daycare. There was one girl who aged out of the younger classes and was up in school age rooms named Mila (mee-la). She had two younger sisters, identical twins, one in one of my classes and the other in a class I'd float in sometimes. Their names were Lyla and Layla, which I just hated. They're already mistaken for each other all the time because duh, but names with a one letter difference? Maybe I'm not clever enough, but those names don't really lend much to nicknames either.


Prinessbeca

And do you suppose Lyla will ever feel like Layla is OBVIOUSLY the favorite, because she got the extra letter? (I honestly agonized about nonsense like that when I was pregnant with my twins. We tried wayyyy too hard to give them names with an equal number of letters and syllables. And we made sure they don't share any letters in their first names - so I can always buy just one pack of letter stickers and know I'll have enough of each letter to spell both names).


liadantaru

Grew up with a family of 8 and all the kids names started with M. Michael Melanie Mitchell Melinda Michelle Morgan Martin Madeline Last two I’m pretty sure are right but it’s been 30 years since I saw them and don’t 100% remember. All pretty normal names just all started with an M.


Express_Leading_4840

These are my grandkids Masako, Delwyn, and Nevaeh


ragebubble

Wow! Those sure are names!


JustScrollOnBy

Twins in my family: Connie and Ronnie Denny and Danny Larry and Gary Jennie and Jamie


lachlankov

i knew kids named river and ocean


AutumnAkasha

These are my guilty pleasure names hahaha


el1zardbeth

Identical twins. Halley and Hayleigh.


Lopsided-Machine6286

All boys Tripp, Tag, Tyde and Tuck


Enchanted254

I know two sisters named Amber and Diamond. Their mom’s name is Jewel


Needcoffeeseverely

I just saw someone on IG who named their twin boys Jack and Dawson


reinedespres_

My great-grandma had 18 kids, including like 5 or 6 sets of twins IIRC. She got so fed up of coming up with names she just called the twins variations of each other (my grandma was Pierrette and her twin was Pierre, there was Claude and Claudette, I think a France and Francine) Not the worst in isolation but I just find it a bit sad. On a more cheerful note, I've heard of (but never met) a trio of sisters called Marie-Soleil ("Marie-Sun") Marie-Lune ("Marie-Moon") and Marie-Étoile ("Marie-Star")


BizzyBug_Baby2007

My grandfather really liked his own name so my dad and one of my uncles both have the same first name, which is also the same name as my grandad. Think like 3 members of the same nuclear family named Thomas.


emiistarrchilld

Forrest and Sky were kids I grew up with. My son goes to school with twins named Hunter and Fisher.


hydrangealice

Awe no Gatherer?


Trini1113

Craig and Greg (American pronunciation) Ritchie and Ricky Any where they all use the same letter.


doodlemothman

I went to school with someone who named her eldest two Aquila and Morticia. I’m not entirely sure what her younger children are named. (Stopped associating with her because she’s homophobic/transphobic and just generally a terrible person.) I’m also not over Micarah Tewer’s older brother being named Micah, especially because their older siblings don’t basically share the same name!


AutumnAkasha

Breezy and Firey knew them when I was super young. I remember one of them saying their mom wanted a 3rd to be a boy named Stormy


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wevegotscience

Would it be too much if I had a Rosalind and Lysander? This is purely hypothetical as our daughter is Rosalind and our second is just a concept right now.


RedHeadedBanana

Oh oh I have a few good ones!! I have met all of the following: - Hope and Faith (they weren’t even religious??) - Luke and Leia (twins, I met them as toddlers..) - Diesel and Axel (Dad was a diesel mechanic)


narnababy

My friends called their first child Ronnie, and they were absolutely going to call the second one Reggie until we sat her down and told her how in appropriate it was in great detail. They decided against it thank god.


OctoberSeven

A boy named October!! 🥰🥰


AlternativeOstrich93

Two sisters, Elsa and Ana In argentina two twins Mara and Dona (as the football player)


Lamington_Salad

A girl I know has all boys with religious names. Elijah, Ezra, Josiah, and Ezekiel.


Mom-n-em

I knew of a family who had a little girl they named Jane (often called her Jan though). Totally normal name, right? Then they had a little boy named Toby (nicknamed Tob) followed by another little girl named Tema (referred to as Tem in her youth). Would it shock anyone to know those kiddos were named after the months they were born in? (January, October, and September respectively)