Babies Johnny Cash, June Carter welcomed on same day at same hospital

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Just call it the American Country Countdown 2.0.

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Unlike the weekly syndicated radio program that features the top 40 hits of the past week, this was all about two new megastars.

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A pair of Alabama families welcomed babies named Johnny Cash and June Carter, both on April 10 and at the same hospital.

Moms Sophie Clark and Nicole Davis shared their unlikely story recently on Good Morning America. The moms said they had to meet after learning of the incredible coincidence — that their newborns were named after the late Grammy-winning country singer-songwriters, who were married from 1968 until they died in 2003.

“I was very shocked. I was so excited when I found out,” Clark, 22, said.

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Added Davis: “I thought it was a bizarre coincidence. And I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ When I realized they named her June Carter and we named our baby Johnny Cash and that (they were born the same day), it got a little bit more intensified at that point.”

Davis and husband Johnny Lee Davis Jr. are parents of 12, including Johnny Cash Davis.

“Johnny is No. 12 between the two of us. So my husband has six from his prior marriage and I have five from my prior marriage and they range in ages from 21 down to eight,” Davis said of her family.

She and her husband went back and forth on names for their baby boy, the mom told Good Morning America, before settling on the name. They plan to call him Cash, though, instead of Johnny.

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“We told our co-workers and talked about it with friends and family and everybody agreed Cash is a good name, like that’s a great boy name,” Davis said. “He could be a baseball player, he could be an astronaut, like Cash could do whatever he wants. And so we really liked it from the second we landed on it.”

Clark said her sister helped her and husband Carter John Austin Clark decide what to call their firstborn. Clark said she suggested their daughter’s middle name should be her husband’s first name.

“I just started calling her June Carter and everybody loved it. Our families loved it and it just kind of fell into place,” the first-time mom explained.

Both mothers delivered at Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children in Huntsville, Ala. Baby June Carter arrived first at 2:30 p.m., followed by baby Johnny Cash at 9:50 p.m.

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