An alliterative name is a name in which the first and last names begin with the same sound. In more extreme cases, this can also include the middle name.
Giving a character an alliterative name is one of many ways a writer can make a name more interesting and catchy, which in turn makes the character more memorable to the audience. This is especially important in works with Loads and Loads of Characters, where extra help is needed to differentiate between them.
In comic books, this is especially true of the names of superheroes or their close hangers-on. It was a favorite tool of Stan Lee's, since, swarmed with projects, he often had trouble remembering the characters' names, and the alliteration worked as a mnemonic device. (Though it didn't always work perfectly — Lee occasionally referred to "Peter Palmer" and "Bob Banner".)
Of note to writers: Overusing this trope dilutes its effect, particularly if multiple characters have the same starting sounds in their names.
In comic books, the Alliterative Name is often also Two First Names. In cartoons, it goes hand-in-hand with Species Surname.
See Added Alliterative Appeal, for trope titles that do this. See Alliterative Family, for when this is done across an entire family. See Alliterative Title, for work titles that do this.
No Real Life Examples, please.
Hiashi Hyuuga, Hanabi Hyuuga... Almost every Hyuuga except Neji and Kou (a branch house member whose name is only mentioned once).
With Hinata, it actually goes a step further. Both her given name and family name can be written with the exact same kanji, although only her family name is officially written in them, with her given name written in katakana.
Kouji Kabuto and his father, Kenzo Kabuto and Tetsuya Tsurugi from Mazinger Z and its sequel, Great Mazinger.
Fushigi Yuugi has Saihitei Shu/Seishuku Shu/Saihitei Seishuku (Hotohori, whose real full name remains a mystery to many fans), Suzaku Seikun and Seiryuu Seikun.
Rebuild of Evangelion: Mari Makinami. (Technically doesn't count, since Makinami is her middle name. Her full name being Mari Makinami Illustrious.)
B Gata H Kei represents with Mayu Miyano, Kazuki Kosuda, Mami Misato, Kyouka Kanejou, and Keiichi Kanejou. One can only imagine that series protagonist Yamada, while suffering from a case of "No First Name Given", would follow this theme as well.
In the dub of Digimon Adventure, Izzy Izumi. Also Kari Kamiya and T.K. Takaishi. And T.K.'s given name in the original Japanese is Takeru.
Bakuman。 has Moritaka Mashiro and his father Masahiro. When Miho gets married to Moritaka, she will presumably become Miho Mashiro. Iwase's pen name, "Aiko Akina" is also alliterative.
In classic superhero fashion, both protagonists of Tiger & Bunny - Kotetsu Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr. - have alliterative names.
Kamjin Kravshera from Macross. He was given the name Khyron Kravshera in "Robotech"
Shiro Sanada in Space Battleship Yamato. Called Sandor in Star Blazers, in expanded universe material, he was eventually given the first name Stephen making both name alliterative. In the same expanded universe, Captain Avatar (originally Juzo Okita) was also bestowed with an alliterative name, as his first name (never mentioned onscreen) was made Abraham.
Solty Rei gives us the two main adult characters, Roy Revant and Miranda Maverick.
Comics
Peter Parker / Spider-Man. Among others, he had to deal with J. Jonah Jameson and Otto "Dr. Octopus" Octavius. Jonah himself has a son named John Jameson by his first wife, Joan, he later married Marla Madison, his editor-in-chief is Joe "Robbie" Robertson (who has a son named Randy), and secretaries have included Betty Brant (whose brother was called Bennett) and Glory Grant. The Bugle staff absolutely adores alliteration. In fact, it was recently revealed that JJJ is actually J. Jonah Jameson, Junior. We have also Curt Connors, the Lizard, and Cletus Kasady, a.k.a. Carnage. The successor Ultimate Spiderman (who is half African-American and half Hispanic) is named Miles Morales.
This reached the height of absurdity with a splash page showing the characters attending a Bugle funeral. Of the ten characters named, nine had alliterative names, with only Aunt May not fitting in.
Based off this, there was a Funny Animal version, named Peter Porker, The Amazing Spider-Ham, who worked for J. Jonah Jackal.
One storyline featured a character who was a SupermanAffectionate Parody (with a twist.) His civilian name was Ethan Edwards. This is interesting in part because the Sentry, another Superman Captain Ersatz, would often encounter people with those initials much like Superman would with "LL"s.
The novelization of the Spider-Man movie hung a lampshade on this, by having Jameson name the Green Goblin in a headline. This resulted in a brief discussion on alliteration between J. Jonah Jameson, Peter Parker, the Bugle's editor Robbie Robertson, and Jameson's secretary Betty Brant... none of whom seemed to notice they were examples.
As if to make his Expy-ness of Spider-Man more obvious, Hazmat of the Imperfects has the alter ego of Keith Kilham.
Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk. (The alliteration didn't save Stan from calling him "Bob Banner" in an early story, thus enshrining in canon the full name of "Robert Bruce Banner".)
In the TV series, it was changed to David Banner (with Bruce as a middle name) because of directorial distaste for this trope. At least that's what Kenneth Johnson (the producer and writer of the bulk of the series) says. Stan Lee says that the producers thought the name "Bruce" sounded gay. See, back in the funky '70s the name Bruce was thought of as a "gay" name the United States.
Clark Kent / Superman. For that matter, Superman's entourage of people with the initials "LL"; Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Lucy Lane, Lana Lang, Lara Lor-Van, Lori Lemaris, Linda "Supergirl" Lee, Lyla Lerrol, Letitia Lerner, etc. The first two were coincidence; after that, the writers picked up the theme and ran with it. Also note that Kal-El read backwards also has two L's.
The Post Crisis Superman continuity included a sort-of Superman lookalike named Bibbo Bibbowski, who was a longshoreman and former boxer.
Smallville continues the double-L theme: Lana Lang's parents are Lewis and Laura Lang, and Lex's dad is Lionel Luthor. Lionel's parents? Lachlan and Eliza. (Several of these were already obscure comics canon.)
Lex's mother name was Lillian and in a dream universe his daughter with Lana Lang was named Lily, and his hallucination on a desert island that was obviously himself was called Louis Leery.
Marvel's Age of the Sentry showed the Sentry's Silver Age adventures in more detail, and revealed that like Superman he seemed to encounter a lot of people with the same initials, but in his case they were "EE".
The Sentry's real name is Robert Reynolds, part of the subversion they were going for with the character when they said that he was actually invented by Stan Lee and then forgotten about amoung a stack of old story notes. He goes by Bob though.
Similarly, Batman once had a series of alliterative romantic interests, including Vicki Vale (played by Kim Basinger in the first Batman movie) and Silver St. Cloud.
Wade Winston Wilson / Deadpool. Deadpool was originally copied from DC lookalike Deathstroke, aka Slade Wilson.
Slade had a brother in actual DC continuity who was also named Wade Wilson, AKA the second Ravager.
The various principalities and powers, and the effects they conjure, tend to be alliterative as well (e.g. the Blinding Brazier of Balthakk, the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth). Justified, since magic involves chants and spoken spells, and alliteration is a memory aid.
M'gann M'orzz is named after Megan Morse, a friend of Geoff Johns...but he probably chose it for its alliteration anyway.
Alan Moore references this trope in Watchmen by naming one of his heroes Daniel Dreiberg.
Doiby Dickles, sidekick to Alan Scott, the first, Golden Age, Green Lantern. Opposing Scott were Steven Sharpe (The Gambler), Molly Mayne (Harlequin), and Crusher Crook (Sportsmaster).
Calvin "Cave" Carson, a Silver Age spelunker-adventurer from DC.
Max Mercury, a time-traveling DC speedster with ties to the Flash, who also used the name "Whip Whirlwind" in the 1890s.
Sargent "Sarge" Steel, one of the Charlton Comics heroes purchased by DC. ("Sargent" is his name, not a rank.) Originally a hard-boiled detective/spy-smasher type, he became a government official in charge of many of the DCU's superhero-related agencies.
Tex Thompson, aka "Mr. America" and "Americommando", a spy-smashing superhero introduced in Action #1 along with Superman. He's been revised and Ret Conned several times since then.
Dinah Drake / the Golden AgeBlack Canary, who later married and took the name Dinah Drake Lance.
Zatanna Zatara; her father was simply John Zatara.
Her cousin's name is Zachary Zatara.
Rodney Rabbit / Captain Carrot straddles both of the major alliterative traditions.
Jessica Jones, RetConned into the Marvel Comics Silver Age by Alias (the comic, not the TV show), who also operated under the codename Jewel. Jessica Jones was originally Jessica Campbell, until her family died in a car accident and she was adopted by the Joneses.
Sebastian Shaw, X-Men villain (and his son, Shinobi Shaw)
Slight variation in the British comic strip George And Lynne (featured in The Sun) — the title characters seem to know a lot of couples who have first names beginning with the same letter (such as Dave and Donna, or Jack and Jenny).
Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's assistant and/or love interest from Iron Man. (Although her first name is actually Virginia, she is best known by her nickname.) Doubles as a Punny Name.
Lots of examples in Archie Comics: Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Dilton Doiley, Moose Mason, Chuck Clayton, Waldo Weatherbee, Geraldine Grundy, the list goes on.
In X-Men Noir, Thomas Halloway learned lockpicking from a criminal by the name of Horrace Hobbs, the Harlem Houdini.
Katherine "Kate" Kane, the Pre- and Post-Crisis Batwoman.
Stephen Stills of Scott Pilgrim, as well as four of Ramona's "Evil Exes": Gideon Graves, Roxy Richter and the Katayanagi twins (Kyle and Ken).
Many characters in German comic strip Nick Knatterton. (Barbara Beerbottle, Felix Finster...)
Millie the Model, as well as other "career girl" features that Marvel Comics debuted around the same time: Nellie the Nurse, Sherry the Showgirl and Tessie the Typist.
The Order, in addition to team coordinator Pepper Potts, had a distinct majority of this among its ranks. Henry Hellrung, Rebecca Ryan, Magdalena Marie (born Magdalena Marie Neuntauben, though), Avery Allen, Pamela Pierce, and Carlos Carvaho were all members of the team at some point or another — just under two thirds of its all-time roster.
Domenic Destine of ClanDestine. Also his older sister Gracie Gamble, although that's just her current alias.
Minor Invincible character Damien Darkblood, Demon Detective. In his latest appearance he remarked that he hates it when people say the "demon detective" part — evidently it just sounds silly to him.
The title character of Mega Mind, as well as his nemesis Metro Man and Love Interest Roxanne/Roxie Ritchie. The latter may be a nod to Lois Lane, given their similarities.
The characters from the film Bite Me, Fanboy!, which is about comic book fans and fandom, all have Alliterative Names: Nick Norton, Jared James, Ray Reed, Tony Taira, and Chris Cole.
On Back to the Future: Marty McFly, Marty McFly Jr., Marlene McFly, Maggie McFly, Clara Clayton, S. S. Strickland.
Hairspray has loads: Tracy Turnblad, Penny and Prudy Pingleton, Velma Von Tussle, Corny Collins, Link Larkin, Seaweed J. Stubbs.
John Waters loves this trope. See also Pink Flamingos (Dawn Davenport, Donald and Donna Dasher, Sandy Sandstorm), Polyester (Francine Fishpaw, Todd Tomorrow), Cry-Baby (Wade "Crybaby" Walker, Ramona Rickettes, Wanda Woodward), and A Dirty Shame (Sylvia Stickles, Fat Freak Frank).
The love interests in several of Adam Sandler's films have had the initials V.V.: Vicki Vallencourt in The Waterboy, Veronica Vaughn in Billy Madison, Virginia Venit in Happy Gilmore, and Valerie Veran in Little Nicky.
Hot Fuzz: Aaron A. Aaronson. Taken from The Simpsons: he's the first name in the phone book and voted for Sideshow Bob in the mayoral elections.
Catch22. Major Major Major Major was promoted directly from Private to Major while still in recruit training. He can be neither promoted nor demoted, because the army has only one Major Major Major Major and Ex-PFC Wintergreen will not ever allow this to change.
A number of wartime pulps are like this. There is the series about RAF pilots Dave Dawson and Freddy Farmer, and one about Army Air Force pilots Red Randall and Jimmy Joyce.
Carrot Ironfoundersson of Terry Pratchett's "City Watch" series of novels is more commonly referred to as "Captain Carrot". He was notably promoted straight past the rank of Sergeant, having previously been "Constable Carrot" and "Corporal Carrot", and at least one book directly compares him to a superhero.
In the German translation by Andreas Brandhorst, who was nicknamed "Alliteration Andy" for this, many more characters get them. Fester Johnson becomes Fester Fanggut, Evil Harry Dread becomes Finsterer Fred Fürchterlich, and so on.
In the Bigtime book series, featuring a city full of superheroes and supervillains, nearly everyone has an alliterative name.
Vladimir Nabokov was fond of giving his characters alliterative names: Humbert Humbert and John Ray Jr (J.R.JR) from Lolita, Cincinnatus C. and his tormentors Rodrig, Rodion, and Roman in Invitation To A Beheading, Professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin and Vladimir Vladimirovich in Pnin.
All four Hogwarts founders: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, whose names are also obscure puns on their mascot animals.
Some of the ghosts, "the Bloody Baron" and "the Fat Friar" ("Nearly-Headless Nick" is also kind of alliterative), "Moaning Myrtle"
Arkie Alderton
Bathilda Bagshot
Bathsheda Babbling (Ancient Runes)
Bellatrix Black (before marrying Rodolphus Lestrange)
Bertie Bott
Broderick Bode
Cho Chang
Colin Creevey
Dedalus Diggle
Dudley Dursley
Filius Flitwick
Florean Fortescue
Gellert Grindelwald
Gregory Goyle
Luna Lovegood
"Mad-Eye" Moody (his real name is Alastor, but almost everyone refers to him as "Mad-Eye")
At the beginning of The Neverending Story, the book shop owner tells the protagonist that his name Bastian Balthasar Bux is rather strange. Bastian than points out that the shop owner is called Karl Konrad Koreander. The TV series played along by calling the store ''Coreander's Curiosities".
In the last James Bond novel, M's full name is revealed to be Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, although his initials had been revealed back in Moonraker. The book also introduces an American agent, Nick Nicholson. (The apparent lack of imagination on this note might be attributed to Fleming dying before he could properly edit it.)
Vin Venture in the later part of the Mistborn trilogy.
Koushun Takami's Battle Royale has several among the students: Noriko Nakagawa, Kayoko Kotohiki, Fumiyo Fujiyoshi, Yoshimi Yahagi, and of course, Kazuo Kiriyama.
Which only actually qualifies as alliterative in print, not when spoken aloud.
in some parts of England it qualifies in both.
From the same series Sir Horace Harkness
In Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. novels, both Garrett's longest-running girlfriend Tinnie Tate and his home city's top crime boss, Chodo Contague, have alliterative names.
How to Train Your Dragon: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock The Third. This trope also extends to things like the tribe names ("Bog Burglars", "Hairy Hooligans") and dragons ("Venemous Vorpent" "Driller Dragon").
The Pink Carnation series has Percy Ponsonby, the Duke and Dowager Duchess of Dovedale, and Serena Selwick.
In the Agatha Christie novel The ABC Murders, a murderer kills people who have such names in alphabetic order: first Alice Ascher, then Betty Barnard and Sir Carmichael Clarke. It turns out at the end that the real target was Clarke, and the other two were only killed to create an image of a Theme Serial Killer.
The Cider House Rules: Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington
In Death: Jamie Lingstrom in Ceremony In Death refers to Satanic cult leaders Selina Cross and Alban as "Spooky Selina and Asshole Alban". Well said.
The War Gods gives us the main character Bahzell Bahnakson. His travelling companion Brandark Brandarkson is probably cheating.
The Wild Wash and Broken Bone hradani tribes also count for groups while Bortalik Bay chips in for places.
Sisterhood series by Fern Michaels: The book Deadly Deals features a character named Baron Bell. The book Home Free features a character named Jody Jumper, also known as Owen Orzell.
Gail Carriger's The Parasol Protectorate series has a character who takes this to the extreme. His name? Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings.
Live-Action TV
Heroes references this — one of the heroes is named Peter Petrelli, and the villain's real name is Gabriel Gray. So far, these two are the only powered characters in the series to have these alliterative names. They also seem to be set up as nemeses. They are also the only two characters who have multiple powers, although for different reasons.
And then there's Richard Drucker, who's a half-step from Dick.
As of season 4, there is also Samuel Sullivan.
iCarly: Spencer Shay, Gibby Gibson and Magic Malika, although it's doubtful that's her proper first name.
Is "Gibby" a nickname, or is it specified that this is his given name?
One Story Arc gave him a similarly named antagonist, Johnny Johnson
Tons of secondary characters on 7th Heaven, including Cecilia Smith, Jordan Johanson, and Peter and Paris Petrowski.
The Middle Man, in homage to it's Silver Age-comic roots, has a fair amount of this: Wendy Watson, Guy Goddard, and Tommy Tam come to mind in addition to the MiddleMan himself.
Pushing Daisiesloves these: Deedee Duffield, Wilfred Woodruff, Harold Hundin, Billy Balsam, Erin Embry, Calista Cod, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles...
Sue Sylvester *
which, considering her parents are Nazi hunters, is a bit of Fridge Brilliance in itself considering her initials are "SS"
and Artie Abrams from Glee, as well as Holly Holiday and Azimio Adams (and Quinn's mentioned sister Frannie Fabray). And Jesse St. James, if you omit the "St." in his name.
The Swedish advent calendar Superhjaltejul had quite a few. Supersnällasilversara, Järn-Jerry (though slightly justified as these are both the names of superheroes, and superheroes tend to have these quite a lot), Frigolit Fragile, the Tinnitus Triplets, Flemming Flink...
A set of 1960s astronaut action figures were led by "Major Matt Mason, Mattel's Man in Space," supported by Lieutenant Long, Sergeant Storm, and civilian astronaut Doug Davis. The lieutenant's given name was Jeff, though.
Mega Man. Some of the Robot Masters have Alliterative Names just by virtue of their gimmick starting with M, e.g. Magnet Man, and the title character.
However, this doesn't apply to the title character in Japan, where he is called "Rockman".
X series: In Mega Man X: Armored Armadillo. In X2: Overdrive Ostrich and Morph Moth. In X3: Blizzard Buffalo and Crush Crawfish. In X5 (none in X4): Dark Dizzy. In X6: Shield Sheldon. In X7: Soldier Stonekong and Tornado Tonion. X8 has Vile V, but Your Mileage May Vary, since the second "word" is only one letter.
From Mega Man Star Force you have Sonia Strumm and Bud Bison. (Who are called "Misora Hibiki" and "Gonta Ushijima" in Japan.)
All 6 tracks in Beetle Adventure Racing on the N64 follow the rule: Conventry Cove, Mount Mayhem, Inferno Isle, Sunset Sands, Metro Madness and Wicked Woods.
Battlefield Heroes loves this: Buccaneer Bay, Coastal Clash, Seaside Skirmish, Victory Village... and that's just (ALL of) the levels! Burning Bullets, Troop Trap, and almost all of the weapon names: Greg's Greasy Gun, Wolfgang's Wonderful, Florenz's Flurry... I can keep going.
Backyard Sports has Luanne Lui, Billy Jean Blackwood, and Kenny Kawaguchi.
EVERY level in Donkey Kong 64: Frantic Factory, Angry Aztec, Fungi Forest? Even the majority of the minigames had alliterate titles. Let's not forget Cranky Kong and King K. Rool.
As well as every other level name in the series bar a small few. In Donkey Kong Country 1 to 3, the worlds nearly all have alliterative names, with names like Monkey Mines, Vine Valley and Gorilla Glacier, while the second had Gangplank Galleon, Crocodile Cauldron and Krazy Kremland. Donkey Kong Country Returns then continues the alliterative level names with stuff like Poppin' Planks, Rickety Rails, Muncher Marathon and Furious Fire to the point when only seven of the known levels (out of 22 so far) AREN'T alliterative.
The Warcraft universe has quite a few. These include Baine Bloodhoof, Belloc Brightblade, Bragor Bloodfist, Brann Bronzebeard, Dar'khan Drakhir, Genn Greymane, Svala Sorrograve and Vanessa Van Cleef.
Also, most Wario Land Shake It level names, such as Foulwater Falls, Gurgle Gulch, Wavy Waters, Mt Lava Lava, Launchpad Labyrinth, Riverbloat Rapids, Prism Prison, Slipshod Slopes and Freezing Fields.
Every default character model in Serious Sam series has an alliterivate name. For an example, Serious Sam, Hilarious Harry, Kleer Kurt, Righteous Robert, Groovy Gregory and so on.
If you play as a girl in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, your rival next door will be named Brendan Birch.
Homestar Runner: Strong Sad, Pom Pom, Perry Palaroncini & Peacey P. And Stop Sign, Stom Stom, Sickly Sam, Rumble Red, Pan Pan, Szechuan Steve, The Teach, The Thnikkaman, Moth Mouth, Brett Bretterson, Bill Bellamy, Sir Hotbod Handsomeface, Wireless Wizard, Ogg Oggerson, Flash Fight, and Fox Face. Thank you, HRWiki.
Referenced in Comedity, with Garth Graham and Larom Lancaster, in issue Origins #0. The main characters decide that, since they have alliterative names, this is an invitation to become superheroes.
Occurs occasionally in The Cyantian Chronicles with "Alpha Akaelae", which an inherited title as well as the name of the original/first Alpha Akaelae. Considering that the Akaelaes are a family of anthropomorphic wolves who rule a society of anthro wolves, using "Alpha" as a title makes a lot of sense.
Mister Mighty's real name is Marion Mighty; his two younger brothers are Michael Mighty and Morrison Mighty (the latter two having no powers... "Mighty" is actually the family surname).
Matt O'Morph is Matthew Murphy
The local chapter of VilAnon has Prof. Odin Odious and Dr. Winslow Weirdlike.
One of the neighbors is Glen Goode, who has two daughters Gloria and Greta.
In El Goonish Shive, there's Arthur J. Arthur. The writer joked that he likes to think the "J" stands for "Just". "As in Arthur. Just Arthur."
Platypus Comix has Keiki Kikilaka and Marie Magnolia from Keiki, and Aerynn Arlia and Lululu Lopez from Electric Wonderland. Additionally, the cartoonist himself has an Alliterative Name: Peter Paltridge.
In Kevin and Kell, many examples have given names chosen to match their species-related surnames, such as Fenton Fuscus, Fiona Fennec and Tammy Tussock. Corrie was once known as "Dale Dewclaw" after reversing her given and family names while disguising herself as a wolf (an alias she was forced to keep up longer than she intended), and taking on Ralph's family name after she discovered that she was his daughter, but switched to "Corrie Dewclaw" after her friends found out she wasn't a wolf. Kevin was Kevin Kindle before he married Kell, which resulted in his family disowning him and him and his adopted daughter Lindesfarne taking on his wife's surname.
General Protection Fault has Dwayne Duncan, Trudy Trueheart, Trent Terrell and Detective Carl Club.
lonelygirl15: Whatever Lucy's last name is, it begins with the letter L. Jonas apparently knows her full name, as he is able to find her apartment by looking for someone with same-lettered initials.
The Global Guardians PBEM Universe has two stand-out examples with Mark Milton (the Secret Identity of heroic crimefighter Ulti-Man) and Steve Stephens (the Secret Identity of Defender). Defender gets extra points for not only having an alliterative name, but for it being the same basic name. This is to be expected, as it is a Super Hero setting.
Survival of the Fittest has this in SPADES: Aiden Ambrose, Cillian Crowe, Waldo Woodrow, Paris Persphone, Adam Amato, Andi Ayala, Brendan Bedard, Anthony Ainsworth, Christian Cohen, Debrah and Deliah Dollop, Wade Wilson (not THAT Wade Wilson (but not entirely NOT that Wade Wilson)), Nicholas Nutbrown, Mary McKay, Denise Dupuis, Branca "IT'S A STEAK" Braunstein, Jessica Jones, Bobby Barron, Chadd Crossen, Jonathan Jarocki, Christoper Carlson (a self-insert of Cody Cromarty, his handler), Mike Maszer, Mike Moretti, Gary Griffith, Joss "Jojo" Joiner, Carla Conners, Frankie Fiametta, and Miranda Merchant.
Intentionally averted for most of the other characters. Series creator Phil Vischer explained:
"If it were a typical Christian show, I figured, they'd be named Tommy Tomato and Kooky Cucumber. But the last thing in the world I wanted was to make a typical Christian show."
In the german translations, Scrooge McDuck is called Dagobert Duck.
Goofy was originally called Dippy Dawg, and got his regular name through a bit of nominal evolution. The 90's series Goof Troop gave him the surname Goof
Some modern comics (c. 2005) giving him the full name Goofus D. Dawg, both canonizing his original name and establishing "Goofy" as a nickname.
In the 1950s shorts that showed him in wedded "bliss" with his unnamed wife and Goofy, Junior, the mailbox read "Goofy D. Geef". He was "George Geef" for a little while. Probably "Goofy D. Geef" was some of that nominal evolution they mentioned.
The Jetsons: George Jetson, Jane Jetson, Judy Jetson...
Dexter Douglas / Freakazoid! actually seems to come from the superhero comics' tradition. Also his brother Duncan Douglas.
Seymour Skinner, Carl Carlson and Lenny Leonard from The Simpsons. Also Marvin Monroe, Gil Gunderson, Jimbo Jones, Krusty the Klown, Declan Desmond, Nabendu Nahasapeemapetilon, and Birch Barlow. Also, Fat Tony's name is once given as William Williams. (Before he was renamed Anthony D'Amico)
Also, Squidwards german name is Thaddäus Tentakel.
WordGirl's real name is Becky Botsford. Also, one of the villains she has to face in the show is Theodore "Tobey" McAllister...The Third. Since the show is an Affectionate Parody of superhero cartoons, it makes sense.
Norton Nimnul, Conrad Cockatoo, Cheddarhead Charlie and his wife Camembert Kate, Detective Donald Drake, Clyde Cosgrove, and Normie Nimnul from Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers.
Darkwing Duck is prone to alliteration in his dialogue. His adopted daughter occasionally takes on the identity of Quiverwing Quack.
The Z-Stacks of TUGS all had names beginning with a "Z" — Zorran, Zebedee, Zak, Zug and Zip.
Phineas and Ferb has quite a few. There's Ferb Fletcher, Doctor Doofenshmirtz, Major Monogram, Inspector Initials, Perry the Platypus, Herman the Hedgehog (apparently along with the rest of the agency, except Pinky the Chihuahua), Jeremy Johnson... plus Phineas Flynn and Carl Karl, sort of.
Peppa Pig, and most of her friends (Danny Dog, Suzy Sheep, Zoe Zebra, Pedro Pony, Rebecca Rabbit, et cetera)
Played with in an episode of sister show Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom, which features Betty Caterpillar... who of course turns into Betty Butterfly by the end of the story.
In Generator Rex, this trope is lampshaded and subverted when its revealed that Dr. Rylander was NOT Rex's father.
