History Main / CoupleThemeNaming

* Amusingly, Creator/EvelynWaugh's first wife is also named Evelyn, and their friends began calling them "He-Evelyn" and "She-Evelyn". However, the marriage didn't last and Waugh filed for divorce after his wife admitted to having an affair with their mutual friend, John Heygate.

So your character has found their OneTrueLove. They have gone through the usual FallingInLoveMontage. They have overcome the OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome to get, and stay, together. They complement each other--whether by [[BirdsOfAFeather similarities]] or [[OppositesAttract differences]]--in almost every way. So how do you hammer in the point even further that these two are absolutely meant to be together? Why, give them names that are parallels to one another, of course.

A SubTrope to ThemeNaming, this trope occurs when a pair of {{Love Interest}}s are given matching names, connected by either alliteration, themes, [[RhymeThemeNaming rhymes]], or even variants of the [[SignificantNameOverlap same name]]. If the couple are OppositesAttract, they are likely to use OppositesThemeNaming.

* In ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'', [[RhymeThemeNaming Michel and Giselle]] are destined together, and their love and devotion for each other [[spoiler:transcends even death, space and time. When both characters die and are reincarnated, the retain their PastLifeMemories to resume their [[ReincarnationRomance love story]] again.]]

* ''VisualNovel/DaiGyakutenSaibanNaruhodouRyuunosukeNoBouken'': Patrick and Rola O'Malley are a ''patrol'' cop and his wife. Their one year anniversary turns out to be a plot point in the case.

* In ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'', [[RhymeThemeNaming Michel and Giselle]] are so destined together, and their love and devotion for each other [[spoiler:transcends even death, space and time. When both characters die and are reincarnated, the retain their PastLifeMemories to resume their [[ReincarnationRomance love story]] again.]]

* ''LightNovel/DotHackAIBuster'' has Albireo and Hokuto, both of whom have {{stellar name}}s (Albireo is a star system of the Cygnus constellation, while Hokuto is Japanese for the North Star). Hokuto enters Albireo's life partially via blackmail and becomes his first and only party member throughout his history of playing The World. They agree to meet offline after Albireo discovers Hokuto's HiddenDepths, and the story's ending implies that they'd end up together.

* The protagonist of ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'' is named Jeanne who is married to a man named [[SignificantNameOverlap Jean]].

* ''LightNovel/DotHackAIBuster'' has Albireo and Hokuto, both of whom have {{stellar name}}s (Albireo is a star system of the Cygnus constellation, while Hokuto is Japanese for the North Star). Hokuto enters Albireo's life partially via blackmail and becomes his first and only party member throughout his history of playing The World. They agree to meet offline after Albireo discovers Hokuto's HiddenDepths, and the story implies they end up together.

* In ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'', Michel (mee-shehl) and Giselle (szih-zehl) are so destined together, and their love and devotion for each other [[spoiler:transcends even death, space and time. When both characters die and are reincarnated, the retain their PastLifeMemories to resume their [[ReincarnationRomance love story]] again.]]

* Both the alpha and beta couples of Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' are respectively named Pamino and Tamina, and Papageno and Papagena .

* Played with in Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/TheClocks''. The name on the dead man's fake card is "R. H. Curry", and [[spoiler:the woman who says she is]] his widow is called Merlina Rival. [[spoiler:[[Literature/HercluePoirot Poirot]] figures out she is the murderer's accomplice, because he immediately recalls the Somerset village of Curry Rival and realizes the murderer, while printing the card, subconsciously picked a name to match Mrs. Rival's.]]

* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' has Ageha Madarame and Hikage Miyama, whose names are derived from butterfly species--courtesy to Ageha's father, who is a butterfly collector. Even more fittingly, Ageha and Miyama actually comes from the same species, the Alpine black swallowtail (or ''Miyama karasu ageha'' in Japanese).

A SubTrope to ThemeNaming, this trope occurs when a pair of {{Love Interest}}s are given matching names, connected by either alliteration, themes, [[RhymeThemeNaming rhymes]], or even variants of the same name. If the couple are OppositesAttract, they are likely to use OppositesThemeNaming.

* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' have Ageha Madarame and Hikage Miyama, whose names are derived from butterfly species--courtesy to Ageha's father, who is a butterfly collector. Even more fittingly, Ageha and Miyama actually comes from the same species, the Alpine black swallowtail (or ''Miyama karasu ageha'' in Japanese).

* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' have Ageha Madarame and Hikage Miyama, whose names are derived from butterfly species--courtesy to Ageha's father, who is a butterfly collector. Even more fittingly, Ageha and Miyama actually comes from the same species, Alpine black swallowtail (or Miyama karasu ageha in Japanese).

* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' have Ageha Madarame and Hikage Miyama, whose names are derived from butterfly species--courtesy to Ageha's father, who is a butterfly collector. Ageha and Miyama actually comes from the same species, Alpine black swallowtail, or Miyama karasu ageha in Japanese.

* ''VideoGame/DinerDashAdventures'' has '''King'''ston and '''Queen'''ie. They are already dating at the start of the game, but their proposal and subsequent wedding preparations takes up a significant part of the game that Flo has to help them with.

* Played with in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}''. TheProtagonist is named Tomoya, and one of his romantic options is named Tomoyo. The series's OfficialCouple is actually Tomoya/Nagisa, but Tomoyo's popularity has resulted in the release of numerous [=OVA=]s and {{SpinOff}}s featuring Tomoya/Tomoyo as a romantic couple.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', TheProtagonist Victor is [[ArrangedMarriage betrothed]] to a girl named Victoria. Although he gets another possible love interest in the form of Emily (the titular corpse bride), Victor and Victoria end up the OfficialCouple.

* Flint and Hinawa from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' have a firearm theme. Flint's name comes from a flintlock gun, while Hinawa comes from the Japanese word for a matchlock gun.

* In Myth/JapaneseMythology, the creator deities are named Izanagi and Izanami. Both are the progenitors of many of the gods in the Japanese pantheon, although they become enemies after Izanami dies and is trapped in the Underworld.