# Husbands and wives with the same first name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873 "2007-03-06T23:08:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/61 "2007-03-08T07:42:36Z")
Casey (guy) and Cassie (gal), great friends from college. Also, my two best friends’ (one male, one female, not in any way related) from my hometown parent’s names were both Jim and Theresa. Although one was Jimmy and one was James. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/62 "2007-03-08T07:57:49Z")
My mum’s third boyfriend was a Steve. Her first husband, my dad, is a Steve. She currently married to her second husband, also a Steve. Way to confuse the crap out of everyone, Ma. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/63 "2007-03-08T08:00:32Z")
Knew a Robert who married a Roberta. We used to call them Bobo & Bert, then Rob & Berta, then… I lost touch. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/64 "2007-03-08T08:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Push Up Bra] My mum’s third boyfriend was a Steve. Her first husband, my dad, is a Steve. She currently married to her second husband, also a Steve. Way to confuse the crap out of everyone, Ma. [/QUOTE] [ > [@(most recently) Herman's Hermits](#): > > “I’m Henery the Eighth, I am! > Henery the Eighth I am! I am! > I got married to the widow next door, > She’s been married seven times before…” ]([I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Henery_the_Eighth,_I_Am)) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/65 "2007-03-08T18:31:22Z")
I have known two different male-male couples named Jeff and Jeff. My husband went to high school with a guy of Norwegian descent named Kim, who later married a woman named Kim. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/66 "2007-03-08T18:38:48Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] My paternal grandparents were Francis and Frances. StG [/QUOTE] Same with my great-grandparents. They called him Frank and her Fran, though. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/67 "2007-03-09T03:07:09Z")
My oldest sister Sherry has had three husbands named “Terry.” “Terry” is also the name of my late brother (gone before she married the first one.) Creeeeeeeeepy. Oh, and more on-topic, my best and oldest friend has parents named Robert and Roberta, who go by “Bob” and “Bobbi.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/68 "2007-03-09T23:26:45Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] SiL and BiL are Ann and Dan. We call them Annanddananddanandann. [/QUOTE] Also from the rhyming names group: My aunt knew the wife-and-husband tandem of Florence and Lawrence. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/69 "2007-03-09T23:31:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] I have a friend Michael whose partner is also Michael. Neither of them likes to be called Mike. I call his boyfriend “Michael’s Michael” to differentiate them when I talk about them! [/QUOTE] Similarly, my brother knew a Deborah quite well, and later met her partner Deborah, who was thenceforth referred to as “Deborah’s Deborah”. ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/70 "2007-03-10T21:24:55Z")
Not quite a husband and wife pair, or even real people, but having just seen [The Science of Sleep](http://wip.warnerbros.com/scienceofsleep/) I feel compelled to add Stéphane and Stéphanie. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/71 "2007-03-11T01:09:54Z")
I’ve got friends who are Chris and Kris, and another couple who are Chris and Krista. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/72 "2007-03-11T10:40:49Z")
Not the same thing but I have the same name as my SO’s exwife. So he always refers to her by myname hislastinitial. ☹ . Reminding me she got it first. And even if I get it, I’ll just end up with exactly the same name as her. ☹☹ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873/73 "2007-03-11T16:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Some people don’t pronounce Don and Dawn exactly the same. They may pronounce the vowel in Dawn a little longer, and possibly with a little more rounding of the lips. [/QUOTE] They’re pronounced the same here, though - one of our hall directors told us the day we met her about her SO Don… or so we thought until she said “she.” 🙂 Aaron and Aerrin (a 70s-fied spelling of Erin, ftr) are also nearly identical in pronunciation which confused us all when they were dating. I lost track of them after college, though, so I couldn’t tell you if they married or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/husbands-and-wives-with-the-same-first-name/394873.md?page=3)