Are people with certain names attracted to each other?

I seem to be attracted to Rufus, but not sure that he feels the same about me.
Perhaps it's that my name doesn't match.

I don't know anyone with the same Christian name as me - which is taken from my full name of Elizabeth and I was named for my aunt.

Off the top of my head I can recall three television characters with the name, and two old time film stars. I grew up disliking my name but as an adult liked it as there are few of us about. (or so it seems to me)

We know 2 sets of Anne and Mick's!

Susan/Sue and David/Dave are the most common couples' names I know but both names are very common in my age group.

We are M & S, which is better than S & M! We used to know a Pat and Pat. And there have been two John and Kathys.

I know a Philip who is married to a Philipa and one of my names is the female version of DH's name.

Yes, the Stanleys are back - my 5 year old grandson is one of them. One of his friends is Sadie which always makes me think of an old couple! But, you get used to any name and usually it suits the person very well.

jalima I seem to remember Peter and Pam had moved from The Close and were deemed to be irreplaceable.

How about two couples living next door to each other and not only having the same Christian names but the same surname too. This happened when I was married to my ex. Even worse was when I went to get HP on a car I was buying and was turned down because the other couple had CCJs against them. Obviously 36 and 38 are easy to muddle up or someone at the finance company couldnt read.

I knew a Janet and John, any Peter and Janes around?
I once had a party which had a surprising number of Annes and Pauls. As far as I know no couplings resulted from this. They would all be 60+ now.

I know a John and Judy 12rg12ja. Didnt realise that that is a popular combination.

We have Steve and Carol.
Or Steven and Carolyn if you prefer.
Or a Carolyn on her own.
And Carol's sister with a Steve.
I have to triple check christmas cards!

One of our DSs was once engaged to a girl with the same family surname as ours. It turned out that many of their first names were the same, though in differing generations. So my DS's fiancee was almost the same first name as myself. Her mother had the same first name as my (late) mil. Her father shared a first name with my other DS. It did become highly confusing.

Our neighbours on both sides are Sue and John. Also know a Peter and Pam couple.

Can't say I've noticed any particular pairings. Interestingly my H's were Geoff, George & Roger. My longest standing Male friend is Andrew (my "toyboy", he is 4 years younger & we share a Birthday), known him 30 years & also another Male friend Paul, we first worked together 28 years ago. Amongst my Boyfriends I had another Geoff & a Jim.

We are Jim and Mary and my mother and father in law were Jimmy and May.I hope my husband wasn't looking for a mother figure.

I know a David and Barbara . And a couple of John and Judys.

Any Howards and Hildas?

Wearing matching jumpers?

(No, that's not us)

I know a Paul who called his son Paul.
Son Paul married a Jayne
His MIL is also called Jayne
His FILis called Paul!
There is a lot of Little Pauls and Big Pauls in their family.

We know 3 Pam/Peter couples and 2 David/Jean

I know an Anne and Mike too, but also a Winnie and Mick, Pam and Mick, Gill and Mike, Hari and Mike and Dolores and Mike. All in late 60s/70s. Michael must have been near the top of baby boy names in the 40s and 50s. My brother was to have been Michael Anthony until my parents realised his initials would have been MAD

I was christened Pauline, a name popular in the early fifties, but I loathed it so it's only family who still call me that, gets a bit confusing at times. First marriage was to a Peter and there were several of those pairings around.

Slightly off piste from OP, Sarah was an extraordinarily popular name a decade or so later and at one time we had seven working at my school, which was jolly small, so they all had to be differentiated to avoid confusing a cleaner with the head's wife!!

Like GrandMattie I feel very sorry for the poor babes landed with a 'trendy' name which is just what the parents fancied without any thought for the future. A friend was named Vivian which is the spelling used for a boy as that's what her parents would have preferred, pretty unfair I always thought.

Every Nigel I know is married to a Jane.

Unusual names these day are rife. Poor children - just hear of twin boys called "Nathan and Jowan" [Cornish apparently. I'm sure he will be called Joan by all and sundry unless he decided to be a Jo.

Know a Noel married to a Noelle [inevitably nicknamed "the Christmas Carols", a France married to a France, Michel to Michelle and twins Leon and Noel...