Family Goes Viral for Giving 6 Siblings Names in 'JKLMNO' Alphabetical Order: 'Such a Novelty' (Exclusive)

Lauren Humphreys' parents decided to play into the coincidental pattern after naming their first two kids

• 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 millions of viewers more context in a follow-up video explaining how her parents didn't initially mean to follow a pattern, but they decided to go with it after the first two kids were born and named.

• Humphreys tell PEOPLE she thinks their initials have made the group closer as siblings.

Named to match their birth order, these six siblings are forever 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 call themselves. The post reached 3.3 million viewers and garnered more than 446,000 likes, though the concept did spark some questions from TikTok users, leading Humphreys, 34, to share a few more details in a follow-up video.

As she explained in a second TikTok, their parents only realized the pattern after having their first two kids, Humphreys' older sisters Jolene and Kelsie. Once they caught on to their own coincidence, her parents decided to play directly into it as their family grew.

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Humphreys tells PEOPLE the mid-alphabetical letters actually ended up fitting some of her parents' original plans for names anyway. From as early on as their first pregnancy, they wanted to have a son named Matthew. They were willing to settle for an "L" name for baby No. 3, leading to Lauren's name, then got to use the name Matthew after all for her little brother, baby No. 4.

"Had Matt been a girl, they would have used the name Molly," Humphreys tells PEOPLE. After Matthew came a second son, Nolan, and a fourth daughter, Olivia.

According to the TikTok creator, the JKLMNO names have created a tight connection between the brothers and sisters, whose ages vary from 24 to 38.

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"I absolutely think it’s made me closer to my siblings just because it’s such a novelty," says Humphreys. "We are known as the 'Alphabet Kids' amongst family, friends and acquaintances."

In her first viral video, Humphreys showed a photo of herself and her siblings doing their "signature poses" at Nolan's wedding in June, which sees them all contorting their bodies to replicate the shapes of their respective first initials.

"All 6 of us are now married, and we did a letter pose photo at each of our siblings’ weddings. The photographers always found it hilarious," Humphreys adds.

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Despite their appreciation for the pattern, the third-born daughter admits that none of her siblings are currently passing on the tradition with their own kids. Some of the siblings have one or no kids yet, so the door is still open, but there isn't an active effort to make it happen, says Humphreys.

"None of us have truly carried on the alphabet naming convention," she continues, though Humphreys may be the sibling with the closest thing to it: she named her own kids Mitchell and Natalie. "Technically alphabetical but not as significant with just two," she clarifies.

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