My kids went to school with Zyenda, she had 9 sisters and one brother. But she was the last, or as her dad said, Ze end! Her mom was a big lady, her dad thin as a rake. The kids were all either really big or really skinnny. Zyenda had neices and nephews older than her too.
I dated a girl like that. She had weird, quirky parents, so she had a two middle names - one was her mom’s maiden name, and the other was Jersey, referring to where she was conceived.
(I recall that her sister’s first name was Coco, and she was really excited when she met a cat with the same name)
My brother’s wife told me that her niece was to be named Cayman, because she had been conceived in the Cayman Islands. I said, “It’s a good thing they didn’t honeymoon in Moosejaw!”
Neighbors named their kids Daniel, Donald, David, and Debora. Their last name was “Del Toro” (anonymized while maintaining the main point) so they were all known as DDT.
At least the kids can share monogrammed clothing.
I know someone who has a pretty unique name for English, although it’s probably somewhat common in Persian. Supposedly, according to family lore, it came from her place of conception (no pun intended). I’m personally skeptical, but that’s the family story.
A decade or so ago there was a commercial that used this concept as the basis for a joke. The punchline is a tween girl, whose infant brother’s name is Tucson, slowly puts two and two together; she’s riding in the family Hyundai Tucson! Or something.
I’ll text my nephew Carnival Cruise Ship and see if he remembers the specifics.
I knew an attorney whose name was Lake Trout. His siblings were named Rainbow and Brook.
Lake was a jerk. I came across his name a couple of years later in a newspaper article describing his arrest. The caption under the picture of him was “Lake Trout As Landed By The Authorities”.
When I was a kid, my parents played bridge with a couple whose last name was Wahl. They named their son Brick.
I work in HR handling employee benefits, so I get to see what everyone’s named their children. I have one employee whose children all have names that rhyme with one another. Think Teri, Keri, Sheri, Larry, Barry, etc., etc. This is something I more commonly see with twins rather than four kids who most definitely aren’t quadruplets.
ISTR hearing him joke about how one of his kids, by that theme, could have been named “Volvo”.
My first name is a combination of my parents’ middle names.
They are not baby boomers.
Weird coincidence: Ron Howard was in an episode of “The Captain and Tennille,” and in one of the sketches he was asked to say something in Swedish. He said one word: “Volvo.”
Maybe not a coincidence!
Foreshadowing! Howard was on an episode of the Captain and Tennille’s variety show in 1976 (along with several other members of the Happy Days cast); while he was already married to his wife Cheryl at that point, they did not have their first child (Bryce) until 1981.
My brother’s and sister-in-law’s names both start with an R. Her son’s name starts with a J. When they were trying to come up with baby names, J, who was 13 at the time, said, “It should start with a J. Since you guys are both Rs, we’ll be Js. It’s only fair.”
Now every email, greeting card, or anything from the family says, “Love, RRJJ.”
My relatives are named on the Chinese scheme. Each set of siblings are all named
family generational personal,
where ‘generational’ is the common prefix word.
Inside the family, they may be referred to as ‘personal’ or ‘generational personal’, or ‘elder brother’ etc. In context where it does not cause confusion, they may be called ‘generational’ in the same way that “Ben” is short for Benjamin, Benedict, and Benessa, but the two words are not two names, even though they are separated by a space
The two parts of the name, generational and personal, combine to form a word or character set like ‘flower’ or ‘dearly beloved’
My siblings also have Irish first names (but no Saoirse), though only 1/8 of my Great Grand Parents are Irish (i.e. 1/8 of my ancestors)
Brian
My mom had two male relatives that didn’t even get names. Just initials. The first one was A. B.
The other was C. D.
That’s some lazy parenting, right there!