Family Title

Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, and Jane, his wife. (And a few others.)

Works named after the family of protagonists. A form of Character Title. See also Team Title.

In music, this is obviously common for a Band of Relatives, but also used for bands that aren't really related.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Cat's Eye (a Triple Meaning Title referring to a team of three sisters, their cafe business, and their father's painting)
• Minami-ke ("The Minami Family")
• Nerima Daikon Brothers
• Three Sisters Story

Asian Animation

• Boonie Bears is called Los Hermanos Boonie ("The Boonie Brothers") in Spanish.

Comic Books

• ClanDestine (also a Team Title)
• The Crossovers
• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
• The Simpsons
• Les Sisters

Comic Strips

• The Lockhorns

Fan Works

• A Certain Droll Hivemind: Technically, since the titular Hive Mind is made out of clones, who consider themselves sisters.
• A Certain Unknown Level 0: The Sisters Arc, which, is about the Sisters, who are actual sisters, being all clones of one person.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: Multiple chapters:
  • "Family Matters".
  • The chapter, "Siblings", about the sisters of Ami and Tiger, who get recognized as sisters in the chapter.

Films — Animation

• Aladdin and the King of Thieves (son and father respectively)
• The Croods
• The Incredibles (also a Team Title)
• Meet the Robinsons
• My Neighbors the Yamadas
• Pokémon Heroes (refers to the Sibling Team of Latios and Latias. Also counts as Team Title)
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie (the Origins Episode of the eponymous Power Trio of sisters. Also counts as Team Title)
• The Simpsons Movie
• The Willoughbys

Films — Live-Action

• The Brothers Bloom
• The Brothers Grimm
• The Blues Brothers
• Brothers (2009): Centers around a very complicated Sibling Triangle.
• The Fabulous Baker Boys
• The Hamiltons
• Harry and the Hendersons
• Kapoor & Sons is a movie about the Kapoor family. It's also invoked, as the patriarch wants to take a proper family portrait and title it Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921).
• Keeping Up with the Joneses
• The Kids Are All Right is about a married lesbian couple and their two kids as well as the latter two's Glorified Sperm Donor.
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Meet the Parents, and its sequels Meet The Fockers and Little Fockers
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Seven Sisters^note The European title of What Happened to Monday
• The Sisters Brothers^note It may look like an oxymoron title, but in context it is the story of two brothers whose surname is "Sister"
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• Stoker
• The Straight Story
• That's My Boy: The story is about an estranged father and son.
• The Thompsons
• Two Brothers 2004: Referring to two orphaned tiger siblings.
• We're the Millers

Literature

• Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family
• Brother and Sister
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Brothers Lionheart
• A Brother's Price
• Cruel Sisters
• Diamond Brothers
• The Fisherman and His Wife
• Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Hansel and Gretel (Brother–Sister Team)
• The Littles
• Little Women: Referring to four sisters.
• My Sister's Keeper
• Seven Brothers
• Southern Sisters Mysteries
• Prophecy of the Sisters
• The Rolling Stones (1952) (the protagonists of the novel are members of a family whose last name is Stone)
• The Sisters Grimm
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• Tuck Everlasting: The titular Tucks are an immortal family.

Live-Action TV

• The Addams Family
• Bates Motel: Bates being the surname of the Villain Protagonist and his mother. Also counts as The Place.
• Big Love: Referring to a polygamous family of Mormons.
• Borgia
• The Borgias
• The Brady Bunch
• Bridgerton: (the central noble family)
• Charmed (1998) (the Halliwell sisters are a Power Trio of witches dubbed "the Charmed ones")
• The Chuckle Brothers
• The Cleopatras (historical drama about all the women in the Egyptian royal family to bear the name Cleopatra)
• The Conners; as with The Hogan Family below, thanks to the falling out with Roseanne Barr, it went from Roseanne to this title.
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• The Fosters
• Gilmore Girls
• The Goldbergs
• The Grimleys
• The Hogan Family; thanks to the falling out with Valerie Harper, it went from Valerie to Valerie's Family to this title.
• The Jeffersons
• Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• The Kennedys
• Life with Derek (referring to the protagonist's struggle on getting along with her eponymous step-brother)
• Liv and Maddie (centers around the eponymous twin sisters)
• The McCarthys
• The Millers
• The Moodys
• The Munsters
• Orphan Black (mainly referring to the protagonist, but the series revolves around her relationships with her foster family, her daughter, and her fellow clones whom she considers as sisters)
• The Partridge Family
• Party of Five: The main characters are five orphaned siblings.
• Perfect Strangers: The two protagonists are distant cousins.
• The Pitts
• Property Brothers
• The Royle Family
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
• The Sopranos (about a prominent crime family)
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (about twin brothers)
• The Sullivans
• Super Sentai: A few of its series feature family teams, namely the Sibling Teams of Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman, Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV, and Mahou Sentai Magiranger, and the cousin team of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.
• Survivor has its "Blood vs. Water" seasons where several pairs of loved ones are featured competing against each other.
• This Is Us: Referring to three siblings plus flashbacks featuring their parents.
• The Torkelsons
• Trophy Wife: The titular protagonist is her husband's third wife, and her being a step-mother to his children from his previous marriages being the story's focus.
• The Tudors
• The Waltons
• The Windsors
• Yuugen Jikkou Sisters Shushutorian

Music

• The Allman Brothers Band (Duane and Gregg)
• The Andrews Sisters (La Verne, Patty, Maxene)
• Bachman Turner Overdrive (Randy, Tim and Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner)
• The Bee Gees (short for the Brothers Gibb — Barry, Robin and Maurice)
• The Brothers Johnson (George and Louis)
• The Carpenters (Richard and Karen)
• The Chemical Brothers (a True Companions example)
• Cimorelli (Christina, Katherine, Lisa, Amy, Lauren, and Dani)
• Cornelius Brothers&Sister Rose (Carter, Eddie, and Rose Cornelius, later joined by younger sister Billie Rose)
• The Corrs (Andrea, Caroline, Sharon and Jim)
• The Cowsills (mom Barbara and kids Bill, Bob, Barry, John, Pau, Susan, and — in revivals — Richard)
• The DeFranco Family (Tony, Benny, Marisa, Nino, and Merlina)
• The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil)
• Hanson (Isaac, Taylor and Zac)
• Hamilton Joe Frank And Reynolds (Dan Hamilton and Tommy Reynolds along with Joe Frank Corollo)
• The Hudson Brothers (Bill, Brett and Mark)
• The Isley Brothers (Rudolph, O'Kelly, Ronald, Vernon, Ernie, and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper)
• The Jackson 5 /The Jacksons (the numerous progeny of Joe and Katherine Jackson)
• The Jonas Brothers (Kevin, Joe and Nick)
• The King Family
• The Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy, Janet, and later Mimi)
• The Lighthouse Family (another True Companions example)
• The Moffats (Scott, Clint, Bob and Dave)
• The Nolan Sisters (Maureen, Anne,Bernie, Linda, Coleen, Denise, and eventually Anne's daughter Amy Wilson)
• The Osmonds (Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donnie, Jimmy and Marie)
• The Puppini Sisters (another True Companions example, although founder Marcella's real name is Puppini)
• The Pointer Sisters (June, Bonnie, Anita, Ruth; today it is Ruth, her daughter Issa and her granddaughter Sadako, which suggests they should change their name to the Pointer Matriarchy)
• The Ramones (perhaps the most famous True Companions example, all the boys — Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, Richie, CJ and Elvis — adopted the stage-surname)
• The Righteous Brothers (another True Companions example)
• Schmitt Brothers (Joe, Paul, Francis and Jim)
• The Sherman Brothers (Robert and Richard)
• Sister Sledge (Debbie, Joni, Kim and Kathy)
• The Traveling Wilburys (another True Companions example)
• Van Halen (Guitarist Eddie, Brother Alex on Drums, and Eddie's son Wolfgang on bass since 2007)
• The Von Trapp Family Singers (the kids' real names were Rupert, Agathe, Maria Franziska, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina)
• The Walker Brothers (another True Companions example)
• Wilson Phillips (Carnie & Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips)

Radio

• The Archers
• The Brothers Faversham
• The Goldbergs (1928) — Perhaps the Trope Codifier, since it was one of the first radio serials and became a television sitcom during the medium's early years.

Theatre

• Blood Brothers
• Three Sisters

Video Games

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Giana Sisters
• The 2003 remake of Metal Gear Solid is subtitled The Twin Snakes, referring to Solid Snake and Liquid Snake.
• Super Mario Bros.

Web Animation

• Emo Dad
• The LeBrons
• Professor Brothers

Webcomics

• The Deadlys

Web Videos

• The Grabowskis, a dark Dom Com parody from RedLetterMedia
• Inappropriate Parents
• The March Family Letters
• Parents React

Western Animation

• The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers
• The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, a 1972 Animated Adaptation of the Thirties movie detective.
• Big City Greens(referring to the Green family who live in Big City)
• Bless the Harts
• The Brady Kids
• The Brothers Flub
• The Brothers Grunt
• The Crumpets
• The Daltons
• The Davincibles
• The Deerskins
• Family Guy (again, if you take the trope by name. In some countries, the show is called "The Griffins")
• The Family-Ness
• The Flintstones
• The Jellies
• The Jetsons
• King of the Hill (while mainly a Protagonist Title, Hill is the name of the family where "The King" is The Patriarch)
• The Koala Brothers
• The Lionhearts
• The Loud House (referring to both the Loud Family and the homestead's chaos)
• The Oblongs
• Phineas and Ferb (the eponymous duo are step brothers)
• The Powerpuff Girls (the eponymous trio are triplets. Also counts as Team Title)
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
  • The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
• The Proud Family
• The Raccoons
• The Roman Holidays (a Dom Com about the Holiday family in ancient Rome)
• The Secret Saturdays (also a Team Title)
• The Simpsons
• Les Sisters
• Street Sharks (referring to a four-man Sibling Team. Also a Team Title)
• The Venture Brothers
• The Wild Thornberrys
• The X's (also a Team Title)

Real Life Creators (authors, corporations, etc.)

• The Brothers Grimm (authors, folklorists, and philologists)
• The Coen Brothers (film directors, screenwriters, and producers)
• The Fine Brothers (web series directors, screenwriters, and producers)
• The Hong Sisters (screenwriters)
• Hughes Brothers (film directors)
• The Koch Brothers (Business, Philanthropic, Political Activism)
• Marx Brothers (vaudeville performers)
• McElroy Brothers (web series directors, screenwriters, and producers)
• The Spierig Brothers (film producers)
• The Umbilical Brothers (comedians)
• The Wachowskis (film directors, screenwriters, video game directors, and producers)
• Warner Bros. (world-renowned media group)

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