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Sibling name 'sets'?

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Kveta · 06/05/2012 18:38

I know quite a few (at least 2 personally, and 1 set does the voice of George Pig on Peppa Pig :o!) Oliver and Alices, 2 Hugo and Isaacs, and knew a couple of David and Alistairs at school.

I'm now starting to worry that DH and I have chosen a new 'sibling set' of names for our DC, as today we overheard DS's name and DC2's name together a LOT. DC2 is due next month, and we can still change the name we've chosen, obviously, but I just wondered what names you hear together a lot?

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blondiedollface · 08/05/2012 18:18

Kveta Stop worrying

Oliver and sound lovely together and as far as I know aren't 'sib set' names!!!!

mathanxiety · 08/05/2012 18:14

Maggie and Katie (several)
Sarah and Rachel (loads)
Emma and Grace
Tom and Mike
Anna and Michael
Thomas and Margaret
Sam and Max (several)

How about Theodora?

StetsonsAreCool · 08/05/2012 17:51

I like Emilie and Zofie

And Teddy

William is my brother's middle name, his first name is Al-something else.

I'd love to have a William, but DH won't name our child after his parents' dog. Not that we're having a baby, but you know how it is.

I agree with blacktea though - you're probably hearing lots of Emilys now because it's your frontrunner. The same thing happened after DD was born, we heard her name everywhere well, 2 or 3 others and since then I haven't heard of a single one.

blackteaplease · 08/05/2012 15:46

Are you sure that you aren't just tuned in to it now that you have decided on names? Having said that, both names are very popular so it's not unreasonable that you would get them in pairs.

Angellight · 08/05/2012 11:52

Olivia and isabelle two sets
Harry and George three sets

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Kveta · 08/05/2012 10:56

yep, he would be Teodor (Teddy) - we agreed on that one ages ago, then found out baby was female, and started wracking our brains and disagreeing on everything :o

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MustControlFistOfDeath · 08/05/2012 10:51

Ooh I'd forgotten about Matylda

Emilie is a lovely name btw

Do you have any boys names in reserve just in case?

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Kveta · 08/05/2012 10:43

ah, you see, we can't use Aleksandra, as nephew is Alexander, and can't use Izabela, as we have two friends (with mixed nationality parents - one set are same mix as DH and I!) with DD's called that, and my best friend always said she liked the name Sophie, so I promised I wouldn't use it. Which pretty much guarantees she will never have kids, of course :o

Plus DH hates the names I love (Matylda, Liliana) and I am a bit 'meh' about the names he loves (Alice, Ema), so Emilie is our compromise name.

(now what's the betting that at my growth scan this afternoon they discover baby is actually a boy? :o)

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MustControlFistOfDeath · 08/05/2012 10:37

Oh I like Zofie!
Zofia (DPs mother's name) is top of my list of girl's names

I think Emilia, Aleksandra and Izabela all go well with Oliver and fit the bill for both the UK and EE (I have had a similar dilemma wrt names to suit)

CocoKev · 08/05/2012 10:37

I really like that spelling- I think it looks very pretty.
Both are v popular names (which you're now attuned to listen out for) and likely to be attractive to the same people iykwim so you're bound to hear them together a fair bit. But go for it- they wouldn't be so popular if they weren't good names!

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Kveta · 08/05/2012 10:32

yup - except it's Emilie, as spelling in the way DH's country does (if that makes sense).

We heard so many mums going 'EMILY! COME HERE!' at the weekend too, so it's obviously a common name round our way. Oh well!

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CocoKev · 08/05/2012 10:30

Oh oh- is it Oliver and Emily? I know one set with those names but they're in the US...

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Kveta · 08/05/2012 10:15

not Sophie, no (although I do like that name, in DH's language it is Zofie, which I am less keen on!)

I will tell what the name is if anyone guesses it :o

Stetsons my grandfather was William Alexander too - and my nephew is Alexander William (and brother is William, and dad's middle name is Alexander!). Obviously names that go together well!

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LittlePandaBear · 07/05/2012 19:56

Is it Oliver and Sophie?

MustControlFistOfDeath · 06/05/2012 22:49

Can you tell us the girls name you've chosen? then we can tell you whether or not it goes with Oliver

NappiesandGladrags · 06/05/2012 22:41

Same as the above tbh!

But then again i've moved counties recently and tbh i think any names could today be seen as name sets - and that all depends on where you live

one thing i have noticed for sure is that we really do not need anymore Alfies

EllenParsons · 06/05/2012 20:53

I didn't even get what you meant until about half way down the thread so I really don't think it's something to worry too much about

PestoPenguin · 06/05/2012 20:44

Girls names I've come across with Oliver include Harriet, Charlotte & Hannah.

StetsonsAreCool · 06/05/2012 20:00

I know 3 sets of Oliver and Simon, of various ages.

And and Oliver/Archie and Oliver/Alfie, which are sort of similar.

I know two lots of William and Alexander (one set are twins), which was also my Grandad's full name

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Kveta · 06/05/2012 19:45

I'm definitely overthinking, I'm 35 weeks pg, so am overthinking EVERYTHING :o

just didn't want to have the 2 most common names of the moment together if they are also common together IYSWIM. But feck it, they have a truly unique surname in the UK, and middle names also pretty bloody rare (DS's middle name, there was 1 other child with that name in the whole UK in the past 15 years. And DS happens to go to nursery with him :o)

oh well, at least the name for DC2 has still not been mentioned here, so it's clearly not that common everywhere in the UK :)

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bronze · 06/05/2012 19:25

Invicta
I have two others too

margerykemp · 06/05/2012 19:23

I know 3 sets of Andrew and James

invicta · 06/05/2012 19:19

Matthew and James

BikeRunSki · 06/05/2012 19:18

Oliver and Isabel
1 or more of Sam, Tom, Ben and Amy usually go together
Chris and Jo(e) in the seventies/eighties
William/Edward/Henry
Adam and James

I recently met a lady whose DS had the same first and middle name as mine, but the other way round, and whose DD also has the same name as mine.

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