I was thinking today about an avid pilot who named his kids after airplane manufacturers. I think he had three sons, and one was named Ryan. I don’t remember the other two (or one, if he only had two sons), but one might have been Taylor. (In case this is a famous person, at least in aviation circles, and you know who it is, please let me know.) I imagine if he had a daughter, her name would be Piper.
Of course that made me think of Bill Lear’s (of Lear Jet fame) daughter, whom he named Shanda. (No, really. He did.) Another ‘punny’ name is Ima Hogg (who died the same year as Bill Lear).
The pilot’s sons, Shanda Lear, and Ima Hogg are/were real people. Are there other real people with ‘themed’ names taken from a person’s area of interest (like the pilot’s sons) or that are puns (like Lear’s and Hogg’s daughters)?
The director of a department where I used to work has a first name beginning with C. His son’s name begins with a C. His dog’s name began with a C. His (2nd) wife’s name began with a C. When they had twins, they were given names starting with C.
Not as many of them, but the family of Canadian snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson are like this. I think his father’s name is Jay, his brother is something like Jaime and his daughters are Jora and Jy. I felt bad for his wife, being named Manon in a family with such a theme going!
In a slightly related vein to the OP, I can’t help but think how interesting it was that J.A. Bombardier had a name that ended up being related to aviation (even though they don’t build military planes…works well for the CL-215/415 water bomber, though).
I went to school with a kid who went by his initials, J.D., not uncommon at all. But his given name was Jack Daniel. His younger brother was named James Beam (and went by the nickname of Jimmy, IIRC). I don’t know if there were any more siblings, but I shudder to think what they might have been named…
I know of a couple who moved from America to Israel after getting married and before they had kids. Although they made sure to get their kids American citizenship, they figured that their children would never have any particular reason to use those legal names, so they had fun with them. I don’t remember all of the kids’ legal names, but three of them are Princess Lefkowitz*, [firstname] Danger Lefkowitz (‘Danger is his middle name’), and a Lefkowitz Lefkowitz.
*last name changed to protect the innocent, although it’s similar in overall feel
Of course. One of those side effects of being French.
Though you don’t really say the m, it’s more of a nasalized “boh”, and the “ier” isn’t really said as “ay”…
Back on topic, I also know a family with a son and daughter whose names shorten to the same nickname. Everyone uses this nickname for both of them, so it occasionally becomes rather confusing.
Not the same but related: there was a kid at my high school who shared all three initials with his two brothers, father and mother. The family car’s license plate was “JRW 5”
I don’t know if she had any siblings, but in high school I knew (well, met several times) a girl named “Donnie Marie”. Guess what decade she was born in.
When I was a kid I knew of a boy called Sean Lamb and a girl called Ferris Wheeler. The latter was almost certainly intentional; the former - I don’t think so.