Is there a term for full names where the first name and surname start with the same letter?

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- so Bill Bryson, David Dickinson etc...

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Alliterative?

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris and Lotte Lenya to thread.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks but I was after something specific to names - I'm sure there's a term for them but I can't find it anywhere in the brain or Google.

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds unlikely to me but... possible

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Alliteranyms?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

paroemionym?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Capoeiranym?

― Bnad (Bnad), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

nameonyms?
lameonyms?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Alliteranyms?

roffles

Or perhaps that's the term for giving every child in your family a name that starts with the same letter.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

No, the term for that is "twattish"

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Friday, 9 June 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks again for the suggestions. I'm going to sound pendantic here but does anyone actually know?

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there some author/musician who does this a lot? Fuck.....

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's a pendantic pandemic

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

You mean J.P. Donleavy? (xpost)

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect there is no term for allitarative names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-onym

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

or, if there is a name for it, it's probably Khmer.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for those links - interesting stuff.

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

favs:

Timothy Treadwell
Sissy Spacek
Sonny Sharrock

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Seward

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Marissa Marchant!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there some author/musician who does this a lot?

Well Tobias Smollett wrote Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random and Ferdinand Fathom, but maybe 18th century names were just stoopid.

― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Arthur Alexander
Bebe Buell
Charlie Christian
Dan Duryea
Edwin Edwards
Felix Frankfurter

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gary Gygax (!)
Harry Harrison (There are two: the sci-fi writer and the disc jockey)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ivan Ivanovich

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jermaine Jenas
Kim Kallstrom
Lomana LuaLua

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Moorcock

― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Neville Neville!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:
Jerry Jemmott, J. Jonah Jamison
Klaus Kinski
Loretta Lynn (and as note by Rock Hardy, all of Superman's ladies)
Malcolm Muggeridge
Nervus Norvus

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Olive Oyl (!)
Pat Paulson, Peter Parker

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Quentin Quisp

― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

ha!

Ray Reardon
Steve Staunton
Touche Turtle

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Quentin Quisp
Yeah, very good. I'm gonna take another near miss and fix it like that to make it
Qlare Quilty

Also trying to think whether we could count
Queequeeg

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

i'm one of these. i fucking hate it. especially because my last name is a pretty common first name too, if you see what i mean, so everybody gets confused when they first meet me. luckily, most quickly learn to get round it by calling me "that little git over there with the sideburns" or similar.

i also particularly hate the fact that my first and second names have two syllables each.

anyway: if there is an actual word to describe this curse, i've never heard of it. "unluckiness" is the best i can come up with right now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Rob Reiner
Stephen Sondheim
Tom Tomorrow

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ricky Ricardo
Stu Sutcliffe
Tom Turkey

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

(no-one can think of a U U, can they? I want to say 'Umbert 'Umbert, but I fear people pointing at me and laughing)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

(ailsa I was thinking of doing the same thing!)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

(there's also probably an Ursula Andress-inspired actress with the name of... well, I'm sure you can guess.. but if she exists, she is not widely known, at least in my circles)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a term to describe where the first names ends with the same letter that the surname begins with?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, it's funny you should ask that about the double "U"'s because the entire time I've ben reading this thread all I could think about is this guy whom I went to grade school whose name was (seriously) _Unsteinn Unsteinnson_. Not famous, yet awesome in literally every regard.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Sunday, 11 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

u_u

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 June 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Uncle Ubu?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

ANNOUNCE: i am changing my posting name forthwith.

― unsteinn unsteinnson (grimlord), Sunday, 11 June 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

just so nobody confuses you with urifrendomein

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Rappin' Rodney
Selina Street
Tommy TuTone
U____ U___
Vivian Vance
William Windom

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

(My world and welcome to it!)

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

They are called Direction Change Names in that famous names drinking game I played once.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Alliteranyms?
roffles
Or perhaps that's the term for giving every child in your family a name that starts with the same letter.
-- o. nate Friday 3:58 PM. (later) (link)

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No, the term for that is "twattish"
-- Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out Friday 3:58 PM. (later) (link)

Sure, but even worse is naming your kids in alphabetical order. Ask my younger brother Ben. (Thankfully my parents stopped there, and there is no kid sister Charlotte etc.)

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

John Wayne before the name-change: Marion Morrison
Joan Crawford ditto: Lucille LeSeur
Jennifer Jones
Constance Cummings
Marilyn fucking Monroe people.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not forgetting Marilyn Manson.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

dominik diamond

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

in university days we used to almost study these during heated battles of the "famous names" drinking game, because names like these are when you have the "cleopetra comin' at ya'" duels as when you say a name like this, you'd first say "cleopetra, comin' at ya'!" and then the name and the direction of the game reverses, the next person can change the direction back to you with another name. M is a particularly good letter for these oddly

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

They are called Direction Change Names in that famous names drinking game I played once.
-- Mädchen (madchen_in_unifor...), June 12th, 2006.

OTM

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Martin Mull
martin mushrush

Gigi Gryce
Gloria Grahame
Jean Arthur before the name change: Gladys Greene

Funk Brothers #1 and #2
James Jamerson
Benny Benjamin

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

the main thing that bugs me about the name change I did is that I left behind my EE status of which I was proud! I still classify myself with 1-initial named people in my own mind.

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Humbert Humbert
Herbert Hoover
Jack Johnson
Erika Eleniak (who was she, I just remember the name?)
Barbara Bush
Sirhan Sirhan

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

game I played once = a big fat lie, obv.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Erika Eleniak (who was she, I just remember the name?)

Baywatch "babe".

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wendy (O) Williams

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

fyvush finkel

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

my last name starts with an a. in high school some of my friends called me a-squared. i hated it at first, but grew to love it with time.

― andy dale (andy dale), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

i like this story, even though dale actually starts with a d, because it is about transcending hatred, and i have a touch of the oprahs so it appealed to my yearning for goodness.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha, yeah.
dale is my middle name, though. i just like going by my first and middle name together sometimes. my last name actually does start with an a. i just don't feel like sharing it with everyone because i don't like it.

― andy dale (andy dale), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's awesome

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Andy Dale Awesome?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/users/tartarus/onions2.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Let's try this one:

http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/users/tartarus/onions.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'd love it if it were awesome. almost sort of rhymes with it, though.

― andy dale (andy dale), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

do you have a creek?

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

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