History Main / PortManteauCoupleName

* ''Animation/FlowerFairy'': The ship between Xia An'an (夏安安) and Kukuru (库库鲁) is known as "库安", or "Kuan".

* Stand-up comedian Russell Peters has bit where he [[https://youtu.be/NnD8s14YfRQ encourages people of different ethnic backgrounds to pair up and have kids]]. Thus, an Italian and a Jamaican have little [[StealthPun pastafarians]], a Dutch man and a Filipina have [[JustForPun jalapenos]], an Icelander and a Cuban have [[HurricaneOfPuns little ice cubes]], etc.

* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': While most ships in the series are IdiosyncraticShipNaming, Jax and Ragatha are called Jagatha.

* Husband-and-wife duo Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd and American cellist Laura Metcalf tour as "Boyd Meets Girl."

** 2Dle (2D/Noodle). Scarcely used, but possible to stumble upon.

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*** Music/GirlsGeneration has "[=TaeNy=]" (Taeyeon/Tiffany), "[=YulSic=]" (Yuri/Jessica), "[=SooNa=]" (Sooyoung/Yoona), "[=HyoSun=]" (Sunny/Hyoyeon) and "[=YoonHyun=]" (Yoona/Seohyun).

* ''WebAnimation/{{MurderDrones}}'': There are quite a few that exist, such as Nuzi (N and Uzi), Vizzy (V and Lizzy), Dizzy (Doll and Lizzy), Thuzi (Thad and Uzi), etc. There's also Envy (N and V), which is more of a portmanteau of pronunciations since both N and V simply have letters for names.

** [[WhipItGood Franziska]]/Adrian is shortened as Fradrian.

For less obvious variations, see IdiosyncraticShipNaming. Portmanteau Couple Names may also come in handy if the couple performs a FusionDance and ''literally'' becomes a single being.

Although common in {{Anime}} fandoms, where the syllable-based nature of the Japanese language means names are modular and can be snapped together with ease, there are still numerous examples of RealLife celebrity couples where this happens.[[note]]It should be noted that with Japanese characters, the English names for these pairings often don't work as the syllables of the name separated differently in each language. For example, with ''Franchise/{{Digimon}},'' the pairing of Taichi (Tai for short in the dub) and Sora is often called "Taiora" in English, but in Japanese, the name "Taichi" is spelled with one character for "ta" and one for "ichi" while "Sora" is all one character. As such, the pairing name becomes "Tasora." Some purists will get mad at you for "splitting the kanji" and using pairing names that can't be written with the letters in the characters' names in Japan, though of course most people consider that to be ''really'' overthinking things.[[/note]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Some popular ones are Yorkalina (York/Carolina), Grimmons (Grif/Simmons), Chex (Church/Tex), and Tuckington (Tucker/Washington).

* Speaking of bromances, the pairing of tennis stars UsefulNotes/RogerFederer and UsefulNotes/RafaelNadal is known as "Fedal", which is also used in a non-shipping context by tennis pundits to refer to their matches and FriendlyRivalry. Add UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic -- or "Nole", as many fans call him -- into the mix, and you also get "Fedole", "Rafole", and "Fedalovic". In addition, when Andy Murray was at the top of the game alongside these three, "Novandy" (or "Murrovic"), "Rafandy", and "Murderer" were popular too.