In Real Life, 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 large Ensemble Casts, where extra help is needed to differentiate between them.
In comic books, this is especially true of the names of Super Heroes 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 letters in their names.
A variation consists of downplaying the alliteration by having a prefix before the surname. Such as "Alice McAllister" or "Bob O'Brien."
In comic books, the Alliterative Name is often also Two First Names. In cartoons, it goes hand-in-hand with Species Surname.
See Alliterative Title, for work titles that do this. Compare Rhyming Names, in which the character's first and last names ends with the same sound. Repetitive Name is a more extreme variant.
Please note that Japanese names, though many may seem alliterative to an English-speaking audience, may not convey the same "alliterative power" in their original setting; syllables (and vowel sounds) matter more than letters in Japanese.
No Real Life Examples, Please! Even though this is Truth in Television, Real Life examples are much more common than they are in fiction and generally aren't meaningful enough to be added here. On the other hand, real-life examples for Alliterative Families are allowed, as they are much less common.
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Other examples:
- "Victory by Computer": The Purple Palace, an illegal gambling parlor where Supergirl is momentarily held hostage.
- The Cheetos mascot Chester Cheetah.
- Front Row Joe's girlfriend, Popcorn Penny.
- BoBoiBoy has Yaya Yah.
- The primary antagonist of Happy Heroes Season 8 is named Huo Haha.
- Noonbory and the Super 7:
- Babysitterbory and Bakerbory.
- An interesting example: out of the Super Sensors, only one has their name alliterate with their sense: Totobory, the bory of taste.
- Pakdam Pakdai has two examples:
- The main character is named Doggy Don.
- Nana the Narrator, which is likely an unintentional example.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf features an alliterative location name. Green Green Grassland repeats the letter "G".
- Simple Samosa:
- The protagonist's full name is, in fact, Simple Samosa.
- Samosa's rival, Cham Cham, has his full name revealed to be Cham Cham Chakraboty in the episode "Sollid Survival".
- The Big Bad of ViR: The Robot Boy is named Mad Max.
- Ome Henk: Several characters in this Dutch audioplay series have this kind of name. Examples include: Koos Korswagen, Floris-Jan van Fleppensteyn and Tjabbe Tjibsma.
- The Adventures of Prudence Prim: Protagonist Prudence Prim, who has a fling with Will Wildman before marrying a man named Dicky Dare.
- Arrowhead: Del and Deena Dixon, in the fashion of the superhero genre.
- Beetle Bailey: The titular character.
- Blondie: The titular character, Blondie Bumstead.
- Dilbert: A lot of the oneshot characters have alliterative names that describe their major personality flaws, such as Disgruntled Doug, Jittery Jeff, and Medical Mel.
- Gasoline Alley: Walt W'allet.
- A varient in George and Lynne, where the titular couple know an awful lot of couples whose names begin with the same letter — Tim and Tina, Robbie and Ruthie, Bob and Becky...
- Luann: Avoided for characters in the strip, but this and Rhyming Names gets used for nearly everything else; businesses, places and events all get the treatment. Café TJ, Moony Uni, Quibbling Siblings, Soufflé Lingerié, Kafe Kablooie, Chateau Trio, Fuse Follies... and all these were just since 2014 (the strip was created in 1985.)
- Moon Mullins
- Retail: Cooper Costello and Stuart Suchet. Marla used to qualify as well until she married and her last name changed from Masters to Garrison.
- Snuffy Smith: The titular character.
- The Death of Koschei the Deathless has warrior queen Marya Morevna.
- "Hans the Hedgehog" has the half-urchin protagonist.
- "Maid Maleen" has the titular character.
- Family Guy Fanon: Meg's friends follow this trope with their new last names. Patty Patterson, Esther Esthederm, Ruth Rutherford and Beth Bethany
- Yolanda Yop in The Aristocats' Island.
- In the Pokémon Peggy Sue fic Ashes of the Past, Ash's last opponent in the Silver Conference is Fred Farrell, whose team consists of Floodwater the Feraligatr, Fuchida the Forretress, Flambé the Flareon, Felicity the Flaaffy, and Fowler the Farfetch'd.
- The Punch-Out!! fan-blog Ask the Ryans gives Aran Ryan's sister (whose name is never mentioned in the games) the name Rory Ryan.
- Bait and Switch has LtJG. Warragul Wirrpanda, chief medical officer of the USS Bajor. "Shakedown Shenanigans" reveals his middle name is "William".
- The Black Wrangler's title character is Kaichou Kurosaki. In the original Japanese, it wouldn't count as an example, but this is an English fanfic.
- but i wrote the words to the swan song: One of Juliet Capulet's aliases is Juliet Jones.
- In The Flash/Supergirl crossover Call Me Kara, Alexandra Allen, Kara and Barry's daughter.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
- The Monster Maze. Lampshaded by Hobbes:
"Nice touch."
- Most of the things that Calvin sells at his stand in "Help Wanted" also count.
- The Monster Maze. Lampshaded by Hobbes:
- Snow Storm and Bolt Buck in Cape and Cowl.
- In Catch Me in Midair Remus is pregnant with Sirius' child and Sirius deliberately suggests names such as "Antigone Artemis Alistronia Agatha" and "Icarus Ieolus Ilarion Izydorak."
- Child of the Storm: The many characters from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Norse Mythology, and Harry Potter who all have alliterative names, plus OC Uhtred Ullrson.
- Saria Speeder from C.I.A.: Agents.
- Pokémon fanfic Clouded Sky's main protagonist, Tobias Talltree.
- David Dakota, of the Dakota story.
- Despair's Last Resort has a few. There's Takara Tsukuda, Miyako Morino, and Saemi Sasagawa. Subverted with Kazumi Katsuya, who reveals that her name is a stage name. Her first name is really Hanako
- Dungeon Keeper Ami has Keeper Mercury and his chief warlock, Torian, create a hair-growing spell from a modified beard spell, the "Beastly Beard Booster" spell.
- The Duskyverse has the original characters Dusky Down, her parents Windy Ward and Splendid Speech, and mayor Prideful Policy.
- Ed, Edd, Eddy n Edna: Edna's full name is Edna Esmeralda Espinoza.
- Enchanted Miracle Pretty Cure has Cure Chameleon, whose real first name is Camilo.
- Forum of Thrones has a number of major examples, such as Robert Raylan, Maron Mullendore, Wolfius Woodbark, and the entirety of House Hoare.
- In Harry Potter - Three to Backstep after McGonagall becomes Headmistress she hires a Transfiguration professor named Belvedere Bartwinkle.
- In Shazam! fanfiction Here There Be Monsters, Joyce Albright and Chuck Ramsey take up the costumed identities of Midnight Maid and Mister Midnight, respectively.
- HERZ: This story has Captain Kurumi Kagero, UN Special Investigations Officer.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger has Alixandre Arc, Jaune's great-great-grandfather who fought in the Great War. Early in the story, Jaune also mentions having a younger sister named Amber Arc.
- Junior Officers:
- Elekai Echidna
- Deborah Deer
- Lekona Lion
- Sarabi Squirrel.
- Riviera Rottweiler
- Verdun Vole
- Zulimar Zebra.
- Anita Anteater
- David Deer
- Gloria Gazelle
- Mabel Monkey
- Amanda Antelope
- Michelle Malamute
- Luanne Leapord
- Karina Kangaroo
- Donna Donkey
- Mindy Maltese
- Josephine Jaguar
- Triton Tiger
- Robert Raccoon
- Braden Brown Bear
- Carolus Caribou
- Purdy Panther
- In the Haruhi Suzumiya fanfic Kyon: Big Damn Hero, there's a case of alliterative nickname: Kyon is amused during Masao's apology when he addresses him as Kowa-Keigo Kyon.
- Ma Fille has a downplayed example; Blaine Beaufort-Stevenson.
- Marque and Reprisal has Gabriel Gashtar and Alazar Aboudi.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles: There's Mina Mikon, as well as her mother Miko Mikon.
- Necessary to Win has Yoshiko Yasukouchi and Mizuho Miyanaga.
- Only two are present in The Night Unfurls: Alicia Arcturus, and Luu-Luu
- Just like its source material, several characters from Nymeria's War, canon and original, have this type of name, examples include Mors Martell, Benedict Blackmont, Yorick Yronwood, Tomas Toland, Davos Dayne, Laroy Ladybright and more.
- In Old West, the main heroine's name is Grace Glossy.
- Pickles and Depredation: Protagonist Raozya's full name is Rozza Reyo Raozya.
- Rise of the Minisukas: Sakura Suzuhara's (embarrassing) nicknames for Leader and Shiki: "Scarlet Sistine Superczar" and "Burgundy Buccaneer Blastcaster".
- Karmen Kons and Estella Erith from the 40k Fanfic Secret War. One name is a pseudonym, it's not hard to guess which one isn't real.
- Sunsplit Saga: Sunset Shimmer, Sunburst's sister.
- Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation has co-protagonist Katherine de Ka'an.
- Tales of the Hunger Games has a couple among the OC Victors and tributes (both focus and non-focus) including Jason Jennings, Linnet Laurier, Lavender LeBlanc, Sandy Sellick, Delphine Dubois, Victoreen Vattenfall, Pixel Plummer, Link Larson, Broda Bernhardt, and Dina Dalton.
- Tales of the Otherverse: In the "A New Generation" story arc, Cora Zir-El goes by the assumed name Katrine Kent.
- The SuperStarr Chronicles gives the obscure Marvel superheroine Star Sign, who first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative #18 (August 2008), the birth name Lisa Leialoha. She was never given a birth name in the comics. Her surname is also an additional Shout-Out to Native Hawaiian comic artist Steve Leialoha.
- The Twilight Child has Twilight Twinkle, and her great-grandmother, who is also called Twilight Twinkle (she was named after her).
- Vale's Underground: In addition to the canon examples from RWBY (see those below), there are:
- the original characters:
- Jacob Jackson
- Harvey Hart.
- Glynda's Adaptation Name Change doesn't affect her status as this since her surname was changed from "Goodwitch" to "Goodridge."
- Cinder's real name, Kenna Carter, counts phonetically.
- the original characters:
- Frozen fanfic What About Witch Queen? has three cases:
- Major Andreas Andersen
- General Bjorn Berg
- Lieutenant George Gardner.
- Viridian: The Green Guide: Izuku is nicknamed the Green Guide by the Pro Heroes who know him.
- In With this Ring... (Green Lantern), Hector Hammond names his current super-villain team the "Triumvirate of Terror", although the name fails to terrify — or impress — Hal Jordan.
Hector Hammond: "Now, Green Lantern, be sure to tell your fellow Corpsmen on the other side that the last foes you fought were known, collectively, as the Triumvirate of Terror."
Hal Jordan: "Go to hell, Hammond." - In Silent Trio 4: Harry and the Return of Sirius Black Harry, his friends and their guardians start an anti-Voldemort organization called the Order of V. Everyone takes turns suggesting what the V could stand for before Luna goes to town with it.
Luna: How about the Venerable Vanquishers for the Veritable Vendetta of Vengeance, Victory and Vindication Of Veritas over the Vile, Venal and Vicious Villain Voldemort? Or do you think that's too short?
- Skylanders: Return to the Ruins:
- Cloudbreaker Island:
- The first area is called Misty Meadows.
- The Hat in this chapter is called a feather fedora.
- Chompy Caverns.
- Cloudbreaker Island:
- The Palaververse: A version of Clue is played as a form of gambling in Wedding March, and uses the same Colorful Theme Naming as in the game, but also mixing alliterative and "job title" Theme Naming 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."
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"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." - Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse:
- Rosie Ross (a.k.a Haruka Haruno).
- Glitter Galaxy (a.k.a Cure Milky).
- In one chapter, Joker mockingly calls Komachi "Miss Minty".
- PreCure in a Nutshell:
- Aya Yukishiro gets the parody name of Yay Yuckyshore.
- Kaoru Kiryuu, who already has an alliteration name, gets renamed to Korra Killyou.
- Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles feature a Sophie Small.
- Return to Krocodile Isle: According to the post-credits scene, K. Rool's full name and title runs King Keith Krudd "K." Rool.
- An American Tail: Tony Toponi, which doubles as a Bilingual Bonus name, meaning "Tony mouse" in Italian.
- Barry B. Benson from Bee Movie.
- Big Hero 6 has Hiro Hamada, which was changed from Hiro Takachiho.
- The Cars series films has Axle Accelerator, Aiken Axler, Bernie Banks, Bruce Boxmann, Benny Brakedrum, Bruiser Bukowski, Bertha Butterswagen, Chuck Choke Cables, Charlie Checker, Chief Chick, Cora Copper, Kathy Copter, Dirkson D'Agostino, Derek "Decals" Dobbs, Galloping Goose, Green Gremlin, Hank Hallsum, Hudson Hornet, Kimura Kaizo, Miles "Meattruck" Malone, Mach Matsuo, Matthew McCrew, Marlon McKay, Misti Motorkrass, Piccolo Perry, Polly Puddlejumper, Petrol Pulaski, Rod Redline, Rusty RustEze, Sarah Safestreet, Timothy "Timezone" Truecoat, Tony Trihull, Timothy Twostroke, and Valerie Veate.
- Cats Don't Dance: Darla Dimple.
- The protagonist of Disney's Encanto is Mirabel Madrigal.
- Only applies in Home (2015) with Gratuity Tucci's nickname — Tip Tucci.
- Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III from How to Train Your Dragon.
- Hogarth Hughes from The Iron Giant.
- The LEGO Movie: Various background characters like Cardio Carrie, Sir Stackabrick, Gallant Guard, Sharon Shoehorn, Frank the Foreman, and likely others too.
- The title character of Megamind, 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. There's also Music Man, so that Metro Man could keep the "MM" logo.
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman has Penny Peterson.
- Prince John in Robin Hood (1973) is apparently fond of alliterative nicknames. He creates at least five of them for Sir Hiss ("silly serpent", "reluctant reptile", "cowardly cobra", "aggravating asp" and "procrastinating python") and has one for Friar Tuck ("corpulent cleric").
- Treasure Planet: Dr. Delbert Doppler.
- Turning Red: Miriam Mendelsohn.
- Roger Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Wreck-It Ralph has Wreck-It Ralph, Fix-It Felix Jr. and King Candy.note Felix is the only one with the same letters, but all three manage an alliterative sound.
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension has Penny Priddy...and Buckaroo Banzai.
- Lisa Lietzke in All The Right Moves.
- The Alphabet Killer is based around someone who targets people with these sorts of names.
- Betsy Bell and James Johnston from An American Haunting.
- American Mary: Mary's surname is Mason.
- Steve Stifler from American Pie.
- Linc Langley from Assault on a Queen.
- In Back to the Future: Marty McFly, Marty McFly Jr., Marlene McFly, Maggie McFly, Clara Clayton, S. S. Strickland.
- Bad Company (1995): Bobby Birdsong (James Hong).
- Marge Maggs (Jennifer Tilly) in Bailey's Billions.
- The characters from 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.
- Tyke Thayden (William Sanderson) in Black Moon Rising.
- Bloodshot (2020). Gina Garrison and Wilfred Wigans; the trope is lampshaded by the latter when Wigans says his alliterative name is like something from a comic book.
- The Bravados: One of the outlaws is named Leandro Lujan.
- Billy Brown from Buffalo '66.
- Linda Litzke in Burn After Reading.
- Capps Crossing: David's second on-screen victim is a man named Jeremy Johnson.
- Walter Whitney in Carbon Copy.
- Jonah 'J.J.' Johnston in The Carpenter
- Phil Perretti (Ernie Hudson) in Champions (2023).
- Richard B. Riddick from The Chronicles of Riddick.
- Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg) in Class of 1999.
- Matt Monroe in Countdown (2019).
- The real name of the titular The Court Jester is Hubert Hawkins.
- Jeffers 'Jeff' Jerome in The Crime Doctor's Courage.
- Nina Naumann from Der letzte Zug.
- The sheriff in Doll Factory is named Bart Barclay.
- Donnie Darko
- Retired Outlaw Harry H. Holland, a.k.a. Handsome Harry Holland, and his old nemesis Sam Starret, in Draw!.
- Reed Richards and Susan Storm in Fantastic Four Duology
- Henry Hill and Billy Batts (whose real name was Billy Bentvena) in GoodFellas
- One-Eyed Willy in The Goonies.
- Mark Milford, Anders' childhood friend and now a mob boss; the Backer in the Caper Crew in Grand Slam.
- Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan) and Priscilla Powers (Elizabeth Rogers) in Grand Theft Auto (1977).
- Malcolm Moore in Gridiron Gang.
- Hairspray and subsequent adaptations have loads: Tracy Turnblad, Penny and Prudy Pingleton, Velma Von Tussle, Corny Collins, Link Larkin, Seaweed J. Stubbs, and Motormouth Maybelle.
- Stanley Snodgrass in Here Come the Girls.
- Samon Shimada and Katagiri Kanbee in The Hidden Blade.
- Robert Randolph (Ving Rhames) in Homicide 1991.
- Hooded Angels has 'Widow' Wilson, who no longer remembers what her given name was.
- Hot Fuzz: Aaron A. Aaronson.
- Hunk has protagonist Bradley Brinkman, his boss Constatine Constapopolis, and TV personality Garrison Gaylord.
- Charlie Cartwright (Ian McShane) of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.
- Susan Stone, the protagonist from If You Believe who works as an editor in a fancy publishing house. Hers is a Meaningful Name as she appears to have a heart of stone.
- Dante D'Enzo and Fred Franklin: Imagine That.
- Inglourious Basterds: Sgt. Donny Donowitz.
- Inspector Gadget (1999): Sanford Scolex (aka. Dr. Claw) and Dr. Brenda Bradford.
- Mary Merrinoe in The Invisible Boy.
- Gladys Clover in It Should Happen to You.
- The James Bond films have Dominique "Domino" Derval, Andrea Anders, Anya Amasova, Stacy Sutton, Lupe Lamora and Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson.
- Hedda Hopper in James Dean (2001)
- Abe Applebaum and Gracie Gulliver in Kid Detective (2020).
- King Kong
- Harry Hart from Kingsman: The Secret Service.
- Knockout has Ron Regent and Tanya "The Terminator" Tessaro.
- Matt Morgan, the hero of Last Train from Gun Hill. Bonus points because he is a U.S. Marshal, meaning many characters refer to Marshal Morgan.
- Silver's long suffering girlfriend/meal ticket Purity Pinker in Long John Silver.
- Sandra Sinclair (Amanda Detmer) in The Majestic.
- William Weatherall Wilkins in Mary Poppins Returns.
- Miss Meadows: Miss Meadows' first name is revealed as being Mary.
- Matt Morales in Megan Leavey.
- The main villain of Mohawk is Colonel Hezikiah Holt.
- The eponymous Nemo Nobody from Mr. Nobody.
- Elizabeth English in Mr. Stitch.
- Dave Daniels in The Mummy (1999).
- Cora Corman In Music and Lyrics
- Professor Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady.
- Marc Malland in My Life In Ruins.
- Jenny Johnson / G-Girl from My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
- Ivan Igor, who also has Two First Names, in Mystery of the Wax Museum.
- Scotty Sheridan in Nancy Goes To Rio
- Bastian Balthazar Bux from The Neverending Story.
- Adas Adamiec from Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight II.
- Midge Milligan (Camille Mitchell) in Omen IV: The Awakening.
- Dale Denton and Saul Silver from Pineapple Express.
- Lady Lisa and Ludlow Lamonsoff in Pixels. For bonus points, they end up as a couple.
- Craig Carlson, the protagonist of Please Murder Me!.
- Wendy Welcott from Please Stand By.
- Franklin Fitz from Principal Takes A Holiday.
- Steven Shorter from Privilege.
- Charlene Coke from Quid Pro Quo.
- Heroic Ewok warrior Wicket Wystri Warrick from Return of the Jedi. Also, his siblings Weechee, Willy, and Winda.
- Kate Conners, heroine of Run for the Sun.
- The love interests in several of Adam Sandler's films have had the initials V.V.: Veronica Vaughn in Billy Madison, Virginia Venit in Happy Gilmore, Vicki Vallencourt in The Waterboy, Valerie Veran in Little Nicky, and Violet Valentine in Hubie Halloween.
- B.B. is also present in some films, such as Bobby Boucher, the title character in The Waterboy, or Babe Bennett, the love interest in Mr. Deeds.
- Bombay Brian (Bruce Willis) in Rock the Kasbah.
- Heihachi Hayashida in Seven Samurai.
- Xu Xialing from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.note
- Tokugawa Tadanaga in Shoguns Samurai.
- Isadora Ivory, the Mysterious Stranger in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
- Gwen Grayson and Steve Stronghold from Sky High (2005).
- Michael Morel (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) and Godfrey Graves (Yan Birch) in Sky Sharks.
- Grant Grant from Slither.
- Balthazar Blake from The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
- Casey Cooke and Kevin Crumb in Split.
- Christy Colleran, Blaine Bingham, and Roy Ridnitz in Switching Channels.
- Ann Anders (Lorraine Bracco) in Tangled (2001).
- Assassin brothers Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction respectively.
- Many of the characters from Thank You for Smoking, including Nick Naylor, Heather Holloway, and Lorne Lutch.
- Jerry and Johnny Jones in This Is The Army.
- Clark Clifford (Tony Goldwyn) in Truman.
- David Dunn (The Overseer) from Unbreakable. Almost certainly an intentional tribute to this trope.
- Alberto Aragon in A Walk In The Clouds.
- Meghan Miles in Walk Of Shame.
- Willy Wonka
- The protagonist of Wishcraft is Brett Bumpers.
- 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).
- Betty Broderick (Meredith Baxter) in A Woman Scorned The Betty Broderick Story.
- Tracy Tzu in Year of the Dragon
- Chris Carlyle in Zebra In The Kitchen.
- Pretty much every group and band name that you could think of are this (Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, etc.).
- Billy Bragg: He used to be known as Steve Bragg, but William was his middle name and he decided Billy was a better name for a singer.
- The lead singer of Breaking Benjamin, Benjamin Burnley.
- Two Dark Angel vocalists: Don Doty and Ron Rinehart.
- Mike Mangini of Dream Theater.
- Eminem, whose real name is "Marshall Mathers" and the origin of the "Eminem" moniker.
- Pale Saints drummer Chris Cooper.
- Suede: "Metal Mickey" and Bernard Butler.
- Sufjan Stevens.
- Main vocalist of the kpop band BTS, Jeon Jungkook. Als the band's other names such as "Bulletproof Boyscouts" and "Bangtan Boys" also fit this.
- The Argentine rapper Nicki Nicole.
- In Norse Mythology, Loki is generally referred to as "Loki Laufeyjarson." This is interesting because Laufey was the name of his mother, while his father was called Fárbauti. Most scholars assume that the Norse poets gave him a matronymic simply for the alliteration, as pretty much every other character uses their father's name. This actually makes some sense in the context of modern Icelandic use of the naming convention, the parents will usually go with whichever of their names sounds better when paired with -son and -dottir, so alliteration is likely a perfectly valid reason for Loki to be referred to that way, assuming the tradition held from an older one.
- Played with: No Good Gofers has two characters named Bud and Buzz.
- Gottlieb's Tee'd Off has Gunther Gophernote
- The pop bumpers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Data East), according to a flyer, are called "Bronco Bumpers".
- In addition to the name of White Water itself, many of the in-game locations have alliterative names, such as Disaster Drop, Boomerang Bend, and Wet Willie's River Ranch.
- Trials & Trebuchets has alliterative names in droves. This includes the four Player Characters: Serinepth Sinderman, Winsler Wallaby, Integrity Idleberry, and Mira Marchand, as well as several NPCs such as Artis Artisian, Aira Allaro, and Bailey Blue, among others.
- Played with in The Magic House. While some characters, like PC Pot and Kitty Kettle, have alliterative names, others, like Uncle Teapot and Grandpa Clock, do not.
- The Muppet Show: The Great Gonzo (but is usually just called "Gonzo").
- Rizzo the Rat, who doesn't appear in the series proper, but later appears in some of the movies and TV specials.
- Oobi: Frieda the Foot.
- Sesame Street: Big Bird.
- And Baby Bear.
- The human character Mr. Hooper was eventually revealed to have the first name "Harold" and "H" as a middle initial.
- Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues features multiple characters with alliterative names, such as Edward Eisen, Finn Flannagan, Jae Jung, and Sebastian Smith, which fits with the overall comic-book inspiration of the roleplay. Sebastian notes that while his name isn't particularly fancy, it does sound good for an aspiring author.
- In DC: United We Stand, in addition to the canon characters with alliterative names, we also have Detective Warren White.
- The League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions has Rocket Ranger, Crimson Crossbow, Tammy Tembar...
- Survival of the Fittest has this in SPADES: Aiden Ambrose, Waldo Woodrow, Paris Persphone, Adam Amato, Andi Ayala, Brendan Bedard, Christian Cohen, Debrah and Deliah Dollop, Wade Wilson (not THAT Wade Wilson, Nicholas Nutbrown, Mary McKay, Denise Dupuis, Branca "IT'S A STEAK" Braunstein, Jessica Jones, Bobby Barron, 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.
- The Red Baron titles given to boxers in promotional materials for their matches usually apply this trope - for instance, Jack Dempsey was also known as the Manassa Mauler, while Chuck Wepner, whose fight with Muhammad Ali inspired the first Rocky movie, had the comparatively less intimidating moniker of "The Bayonne Bleeder".
- Formula One has Thai-British driver Alex Ansusinha, professionally known as Alexander Albon, born with the name Alexander Albon Ansusinha.
- There are plenty of sports clubs that have an alliterative name, way more than to even give an even remotely extensive list. Just some examples:
- US pro sports: LA Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards (all basketball), Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks, Tennessee Titans (American football), Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins (hockey), Columbus Crew, Seattle Sounders (soccer),...
- Football/soccer: Wolverhampton Wanderers, Cardiff City, Coventry City (England), Alemannia Aachen, Dynamo Dresden, Wehen Wiesbaden (Germany), Litex Lovetch (Bulgaria),...
- US college sports:
- Alliterative school name and nickname: Baylor Bears, Belmont Bruins, Bryant Bulldogs, Bucknell Bison, Buffalo Bulls, Butler Bulldogs, Drexel Dragons, Duquesne Dukes, Lafayette Leopards, Pitt Panthers, Portland Pilots, Troy Trojans, Utah Utes,... Honorable mention to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers.
- Alliterative nickname only: Maine Black Bears, Minnesota Golden Gophers,...
- School name and nickname separately alliterative: Texas Tech Red Raiders. Honorable mention to the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters (that school's men's teams, however, are Bulldogs).
- Sentinels of the Multiverse, being inspired by superhero comics, has its share of these, both in civilian identities and in codenames.
- America's Finest Legacy is Paul Parsons VIII (yes, the eighth). His daughter Pauline Parsons prefers to go by her middle name of Felicia, but then adopts the civilian alias of Felicia Fields (since the Parsons family's connection to the Legacy line is public knowledge, and by this time, she's taken up the mantle as America's Newest Legacy).
- The Wraith is Maia Montgomery.
- Anthony Drake is the Argent Adept, Virtuoso of the Void. The Virtuosos are a long line of magical musicians, and they have all had alliterative titles.
- Hugh Lowsley is Captain Cosmic.
- Portja Kir-Pro is Sky-Scraper.
- On the villainous side of things, Ivan Ramonat is Baron Blade.
- Minor villain Heartbreaker is Tony Taurus.
- Sergeant Steel's real name is Jack Steel. His subordinate, Becky Blast, also qualifies.
- The identity of Glamour has been held by a few different characters throughout Sentinel Comics' fictional history, and no fewer than three of them qualify:
- The first one was Madame Marjorie Mittermeier, creator of Madame Mittermeier's Fantastical Festival of Conundrums and Curiosities.
- The second one came about because a writer needed to use Glamour's real name for something, couldn't remember it, and was unwilling or unable to look it up. "Well, it's something with M's... Melissa... Morris... yeah, that's it!" The Sentinel Comics editors didn't catch the mistake until it was too late to do anything about it, and eventually decided that Madame Mittermeier was still around and allowing Melissa Morris to use the name for whatever reason.
- When Melissa Morris was found murdered in the 1980s, it was unclear for a while who was using the Glamour name now. The answer was eventually revealed to be Aislin Allen, who had been the hero The Shrieker for a brief time in the '50s (in fact, part of the original Freedom Four/Freedom Five) before being basically forgotten when that team fell apart.
- Other alliteratively named characters or groups include Professor Pollution, the Green Grosser, the Crackjaw Crew, and the Southwest Sentinels.
- Be More Chill features two main characters named Michael Mell and Christine Canigula.
- Buffalo Bill used his nickname to promote his western shows.
- Dear Evan Hansen: Heidi Hansen, Evan's mother.
- Ralph Rackstraw and Dick Deadeye from H.M.S. Pinafore.
- Professor Harold Hill, from The Music Man.
- Professor of linguistics Henry Higgins from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Also the same character from its musical adaptation My Fair Lady. It's important that his name starts with this sound — thus his Cockney pupil Eliza has to struggle with dropping H's and 'Enry 'Iggins.
- Suddenly, Last Summer: Violet Venable, a wealthy widow.
- Benjamin Barker and Beadle Bamford from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
- La Traviata: Violetta Valéry and Giorgio Germont.
- Westeros: An American Musical: The play uses "Bobby" as a nickname for Robert Baratheon, resulting in him calling himself "Bobby B" in "Small Council". A canon character named Leo Lefford also has a part in "Hand of the King".
- A set of 1960s astronaut action figures:
- The leader, "Major Matt Mason, Mattel's Man in Space,"
- Lieutenant Long, whose given name is Jeff, though.
- Sergeant Storm
- Civilian astronaut Doug Davis
- In the Monster High world, there's:
- Jackson Jekyll
- Holt Hyde
- Scarah Screams
- And course, how could we forget Polly Pocket?
- Bento Banana: The titular Bento Banana.
- 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.
- RWBY: Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna, Glynda Goodwitch, Peter Port, Penny Polendina, Arslan Altan, May Marigold, Elm Ederne, Caroline Cordovin and Melanie and Miltia Malachite.
- The Stump: Malone Munchak.
- Object Shows:
- The Almost Valentinesly Object Show: Bean Bag and Cheap Chardonnay
- Animated Inanimate Battle: Bouncy Ball and Chocolate Chip,
- Awesome Futuristic Objects: Adobe Animate, Blue Block, Colecovision Controller and Samurai Sword
- Battle of Objects: Beach Ball, Bouncy Ball, Candy Corn and French Fry
- Battle of the Breeds: AC Adapter
- The titular character in Becky Bucket
- Brawl for Object Palace: Pearl Pen and Pom-Pom
- Burger Brawl: GreenyGuy and QuicksandQuix (Ignoring the lack of space in-between)
- Challenge to Win: Candy Cane and Ping-Pong Paddle
- The Daily Object Show: Blood Bag, Evil Blood Bag and Tiny Tacos
- Entity Frenzy: Bowling Ball
- Escape from Abject Reality: Wet Wipes
- Fight in Flight: Silly String
- Galactic Conquest: Candy Cane
- Inanimate Insanity: Silver Spoon, Test Tube and Yin-Yang
- Jeopardized Objects: Ping Pong Ball and Ping Pong Paddle
- The Letter: Forbidden Fruit
- Melody Star: Bon-Bon
- Mysterious Object Super Show: Bean Bag, Floral Floam and Potted Plant
- Nice Show For Weenies: Purple Pencil
- Object Asylum: Beach Ball, Blood Bottle and Lava Lamp
- Object Connects: Bocce Ball and Cotton Candy
- Object Explosion: Lava Lamp and Scary Story
- Object Knockout: Snail Shell
- Object Land: Bowling Ball
- Object Lockdown: Paint Palette and Stop Sign
- Object Madness: Candy Cane
- Object Manor: Paper Plate
- Object Mayhem: Bouncy Ball
- Object Overload: Ping Pong Ball
- Object Show 87: Big Benny and Inanimate Insanity Shirt
- Object Show: Candy Corn
- The Object Show Extravaganza Mini: Lava Lamp
- Object Terror: Beep Boop and Coffee Cup
- Obsolete Battle Show: Baseball Bat and Lava Lamp
- Paper Puppets: Caramel Cube
- The Strive for the Million: Beach Ball
- Through the Woods: Beach Ball and Bowling Ball
- Ultimate Insanity: Bowling Ball
- Village of Objects: Beach Ball, Bowling Ball, Candy Corn, Cheat-Code, Chocolate Cube, Coin's Curiousity, Glitter Glue, Kit Kat, Rhythm Rocket and Third Place Trophy
- Yet Another Gameshow: Bouncy Ball and Cuckoo Clock
- Unconventionally Centered: Beach Ball
- In the classic superhero tradition, the main character of Brennus has the full name of Basileus Bartholomew Balthasar Brant-Blake. One wonders what his parents were thinking, but Basil must have liked it, as his superhero alter ego is called Brennus, continuing the "B" theme.
- The titular town in Crossing Kevin's Crossing, and Mathew Myers in Water Tower
- Grandmaster of Theft's Cassidy Cain.
- Halo 2 ARG I Love Bees has James James and his daughter Janissary. For a bit of potential Fridge Logic, James James ('yeah, J-Squared') is a false name picked by Janissary's father, likely on the grounds that it's so ridiculous and uncreative that nobody would question it.
- Many of the bots of the Jolly Roger Telephone Company have alliterative names, including Bloody Billy, Debbie Doldrums, Jolly Jenny, Kim the Kraken, Salty Sally and Whitey Whitebeard.
- Legatum:
- Help Not Wanted has Grovmar and Groshlar Grollear. They also happen to be goblins.
- The Road to Hell... has Gendyl Gynjyt and Mernal Mynwort.
- Scrambled Egg has Synnyk Synncader.
- LIS_DEAD seems to have lots of these: Dramatic Detective, Mysterious Mr. M, and Zodiac Zack.
- Pete Vs. The Grumpy Gremlins by OchreJelly on DeviantArt.
"Original title: Pete the Plucky Paladin Penguin versus the Gooey Grumbling Grumpy Gremlins.
This is kinda what happens when I'm reflecting on things in life, and all coffee'd up." - The villain Freedom Fighter from Stone Burners.
- Tails Series:
- Tails of Fame has Rast Racklyn. Bonus points for also being a rat.
- Tails of the Bounty Hunter has Rellis Rotilli (another rat), Gobor Grizzer, and Styxxaccer Saxxmaxinmax.
- Tails of the Space Gladiators has Bossly Bosmogan, who also happens to be a bird.
- Ubuntu developers has "Funky Fairy" naming system (Adjective+ Animal) for releases, from Warty Warthog (the first) to Raring Ringtail (current). Naturally, this caused a storm of Ubuntu jokes after certain statements from Linus Torvalds (just click the "comments" link there).
- Five of Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations)'s eight known characters have first and last names that start with the same letter: Julie Joyful, Sally Starlet, Poppy Partridge, Barnaby B. Beagle, and Frank Frankly.
- Whateley Universe:
- William Wilson was the original name of Tennyo.
- There's also others, like Scrambler, a.k,a Joanne Jackie "Jay-Jay" Jendleschmidt.
- Apparently, this was common in their equivalent of The Golden Age of Comic Books; at one point, an older supervillain lampshades this.
- The "Who Would Win?" meme.
- WiiWare
- Two of Sega's consoles follow this trope: the Sega Saturn and the Game Gear.
- MSPABooru categorizes its color pools this way. Behold (and try not to get an eye strain):
- Pensive Pines
- Admirable Ambers
- Chichi Cyans
- Vivacious Violets
- Tasteful Tans
- Bewitching Blacks
- Wondrous Whites
- Luminous Limes
- Majestic Maroons
- Burnished Browns
- Galumptious Greys
- Intruiging Indigos
- Pulchritudinous Purples
- Tantalizing Teals
- Grandiose Greens
- Yummy Yellows
- Opulent Oranges
- Radiant Reds
- Popping Pinks
- Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara discussed this trope when he reviewed Action Comics #252 (pictured above), and he noticed that it also applies to him as well, since his real name is Lewis Lovhaug.
- Exploited in Demo Reel, as Donnie Dupre is the fake name of Jimmy Boyd, a Former Child Star who was so abused by Horrible Hollywood he felt the need to create a new identity.
- The Guild: Vork's real name is Herman Holden. There's also Wade Wei in season 2.
- The nicknames for crafts in Life Hacks For Kids can sometimes have these. For example, "Fabulous Fan Tent".
- 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.
- A few meme characters like Scumbag Steve, Bad-Luck Brian, Good-Guy Greg, and the Foul-Bachelor Frog.
- In Noob, Fantöm's real name is Max Middle.
- YouTube Creator Welker Farms has a giant tractor called Big Bud. They have an attachment they use to build and move grain bins on their Montana Farm. The call the complete machine Bob's Big Bud Bin Boom.
- The YouTuber, Summoning Salt.