- Lauren Humphreys shared a now-viral TikTok about how she and her six siblings all have names following a “JKLMNO” alphabetical order.
- She gave her tens of millions of viewers extra context in a follow-up video explaining how her dad and mom did not initially imply to comply with a sample, however they determined to go along with it after the primary two children had been born and named.
- Humphreys inform PEOPLE she thinks their initials have made the group nearer as siblings.
Named to match their beginning order, these six siblings are eternally bonded by their alphabetical initials.
In a now-viral TikTok, Lauren Humphreys mentioned that she’s one of the “JKLMNO” kids, as she and her brothers and sisters have come to name themselves. The publish reached 3.3 million viewers and garnered greater than 446,000 likes, although the idea did spark some questions from TikTok customers, main Humphreys, 34, to share a couple of extra particulars in a follow-up video.
As she defined in a second TikTok, their dad and mom solely realized the sample after having their first two children, Humphreys’ older sisters Jolene and Kelsie. As soon as they caught on to their very own coincidence, her dad and mom determined to play instantly into it as their household grew.
Humphreys tells PEOPLE the mid-alphabetical letters really ended up becoming a few of her dad and mom’ authentic plans for names anyway. From as early on as their first being pregnant, they needed to have a son named Matthew. They had been keen to accept an “L” identify for child No. 3, resulting in Lauren’s identify, then acquired to make use of the identify Matthew in any case for her little brother, child No. 4.
“Had Matt been a lady, they’d have used the identify Molly,” Humphreys tells PEOPLE. After Matthew got here a second son, Nolan, and a fourth daughter, Olivia.
In line with the TikTok creator, the JKLMNO names have created a decent connection between the brothers and sisters, whose ages differ from 24 to 38.
“I completely suppose it’s made me nearer to my siblings simply because it’s such a novelty,” says Humphreys. “We’re referred to as the ‘Alphabet Children’ amongst household, associates and acquaintances.”
In her first viral video, Humphreys confirmed a photograph of herself and her siblings doing their “signature poses” at Nolan’s marriage ceremony in June, which sees all of them contorting their our bodies to duplicate the shapes of their respective first initials.
“All 6 of us at the moment are married, and we did a letter pose photograph at every of our siblings’ weddings. The photographers at all times discovered it hilarious,” Humphreys provides.
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Regardless of their appreciation for the sample, the third-born daughter admits that none of her siblings are at present passing on the custom with their very own children. A number of the siblings have one or no children but, so the door continues to be open, however there is not an energetic effort to make it occur, says Humphreys.
“None of us have actually carried on the alphabet naming conference,” she continues, although Humphreys would be the sibling with the closest factor to it: she named her personal children Mitchell and Natalie. “Technically alphabetical however not as important with simply two,” she clarifies.