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* Some shipping lines use(d) this pattern, e. g. The White Star Line used names ending in "-ic" (Titanic, Olympic, Britannic)[[note]]Originally, ''Brittanic'' was supposed to be ''Gigantic'', making the ships all refer to generations of [[UsefulNotes/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]]: the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titans Titans]], the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians Olympians]], and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes Gigantes]]. The sinking of the ''Titanic'' led White Star to change ''Gigantic''[='=]s name.[[/note]] while Cunard, at least until the launching of RMS ''Queen Mary'', used names ending in "-ia" (Caronia, Mauretania, Lusitania).[[note]]The Cunard Line is the only shipping company still providing regular passenger service between New York and Southampton, operating RMS ''Queen Mary 2'' on a regular transatlantic schedule.[[/note]] The Ferdinand Laeisz shipping line of Hamburg, one of the last to make large-scale use of sailing ships for freight (e. g. of salpeter from Chile), became informally known as the "Flying P Line" because all its ships' names start with the letter P (Pudel, Peking, Pamir, Passat, Preussen, Priwall, Padua etc.).

** All eleven Loud children have names that start with L. All but Lincoln, the lone boy, have names with exactly four letters, resulting in some of the names being MyNaymeIs versions of normal L names. Their mother, Rita, doesn't fit the naming scheme (although that's because she's only a Loud by marriage), but their dad, Lynn Sr., does, as do many of his relatives, like his father Leonard, his brother Lance, his great-great grandfather Lynwood, and distant ancestor Lucille.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning''

** Yhwach gives his subordinates powers unique among normal quincy by carving a schrift into their souls. No, it's not as painful as it sounds. Each letter assigned is unique, with one exception. (Yhwach gave himself A, for "Almighty". Apparently, He also granted this letter to Uryu, because Uryu is to be his successor.)

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--> The spies were named Saitou, Saizou, Suzukaze, Seiji, Seto, Seta, Souta, Shinichi, Shinpachi, Shinji, Sanosuke, Sho, Saburo, and Hikaru.

* In ''[[https://ficwad.com/story/269749 Transforming Harry]]'' Colin and Dennis Creevey's parents are named Anna and Benjamin. They also have siblings named Eliza, Francis and Georgia.

* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': A version of ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' is played as a form of gambling in ''Wedding March'', and uses the same ColorfulThemeNaming as in the game, but also mixing AllierativeName and "job title" ThemeNaming in as well:
--> “J’accuse … Commodore Cerise… in the coal cellar … with ...” The jenny checked the cards in the clefts of her hooves before finishing with “ … a very small and exceptionally pointy unicorn.”\\
[...]\\
“So many potential enemies, this victim,” [...] “Last time, it was Granny Glaucous in the walk-in wardrobe with a half-brick in a sock, and before that, it was Inspector Infrared in the billiards room with a forthrightly-appendaged fertility statue.
* ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'': Peggy Carter, birth name '''M'''argaret, has her canonical brother '''M'''ichael, and an original younger brother '''M'''atthew. As she explains some family history to Sousa, he wonders if his parents stuck with "M" names because they felt like they should complete the set.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses,'' the titular sisters were named alphabetically: Ashlyn, Blair, Courtney, Delia, Edeline, Fallon, Genevieve, Hadley, Isla, Janessa, Kathleen, Lacey.

** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3'', the Brothers Bear all have names starting with B. Each name describes their personality or job, combining this with MeaningfulName. For instance, Barter will trade you items, Blizzard is a mountain climber, and Bazooka wears a military general's outfit and operates a cannon.

** All eleven Loud children have names that start with the letter L. All but Lincoln, the lone boy, have names with exactly four letters, resulting in some of the names being MyNaymeIs versions of normal L names. When Lincoln visits a parallel universe where his ten sisters are brothers instead, they maintain the same naming scheme. This even applies to the father, Lynn Sr., and the only exception is the mother, Rita.

** In a similar case to the Louds, the episode "White Hair" has Lincoln dream he's a rabbit named Warren, who is the one exception from a large family of sister rabbits, all whose names start with B.

** The Royal Navy has been doing this since the turn of the 20th century with destroyers, light cruisers and later submarines. The class would have a letter designation, "C" class for example, and the ships of that class would all (or mostly) have names beginning with C. The ''Revenge'' class of battleships (launched 1914-1916) was informally known as the "R" class of battleships because it consisted of HMS Revenge (ex-Renown), Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Resolution and Ramillies.