Moms Welcome Babies Named Johnny Cash and June Carter at Same Alabama Hospital on Same Day

Both members of one of country music’s most famous couples were accidentally honored on the same day in an Alabama hospital!

We want them to keep in touch. It’s too big of a coincidence not to,” June’s mother Sophie Clark said of the two newborns

Moms Sophie Clark and Nicole Davis each gave birth on April 10 at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children in Huntsville, and coincidentally named their respective babies after June Carter and Johnny Cash, who were married from 1968 until their deaths in 2003.

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Moms Welcome Babies Named Johnny Cash and June Carter at Same Alabama Hospital on Same Day
“We want them to keep in touch. It’s too big of a coincidence not to,” June’s mother Sophie Clark said of the two newborns

By Esme Mazzeo Published on April 28, 2024 12:13PM EDT
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Babies June Carter and Johnny Cash. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NICOLE DAVIS
Both members of one of country music’s most famous couples were accidentally honored on the same day in an Alabama hospital!

Moms Sophie Clark and Nicole Davis each gave birth on April 10 at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children in Huntsville, and coincidentally named their respective babies after June Carter and Johnny Cash, who were married from 1968 until their deaths in 2003.

Clark, 22, welcomed her daughter June Carter Clark at 2:30 p.m. and hours later, Davis and her husband welcomed their son Johnny Cash Davis into the world at 9:50 p.m., per Good Morning America.

When nurses found out that two strangers who decided to name their kids after Cash and Carter gave birth on the same day, they facilitated a meeting between the babies in their bassinets and their parents.

The coincidence was only uncovered because Sophie’s uncle struck up a conversation with baby Johnny’s father.

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Moms Welcome Babies Named Johnny Cash and June Carter at Same Alabama Hospital on Same Day
“We want them to keep in touch. It’s too big of a coincidence not to,” June’s mother Sophie Clark said of the two newborns

By Esme Mazzeo Published on April 28, 2024 12:13PM EDT
June Carter and Johnny Cash babies
Babies June Carter and Johnny Cash. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NICOLE DAVIS
Both members of one of country music’s most famous couples were accidentally honored on the same day in an Alabama hospital!

Moms Sophie Clark and Nicole Davis each gave birth on April 10 at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children in Huntsville, and coincidentally named their respective babies after June Carter and Johnny Cash, who were married from 1968 until their deaths in 2003.

Clark, 22, welcomed her daughter June Carter Clark at 2:30 p.m. and hours later, Davis and her husband welcomed their son Johnny Cash Davis into the world at 9:50 p.m., per Good Morning America.

When nurses found out that two strangers who decided to name their kids after Cash and Carter gave birth on the same day, they facilitated a meeting between the babies in their bassinets and their parents.

The coincidence was only uncovered because Sophie’s uncle struck up a conversation with baby Johnny’s father.

Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash pose for a portrait at an event in September 1969.
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash pose for a portrait at an event in September 1969. MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY
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“I was very shocked. I was so excited when I found out,” Sophie, whose sister helped her and her husband name their first child, told GMA. Baby June’s middle name is her father’s first name.

She learned of the baby boy’s name first. “And I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ ” she said of her reaction when she learned that the babies had the same birthday.

Baby Johnny — who will go by Cash — is the 12th and youngest child in the blended family that Nicole and her husband are raising together.