sibling name rivalry

I think I got a great name, but my brother got a pants one hahaha

I've always hated DSis2's name. Mine is OK, but very very popular for people my age.

My mum gave my sister a 'made up' name. Very unusual. She gave me a very common name. Think Katie, Sarah, Lucy... Along those lines.
I used to be so jealous as when mum talked about her girls 'dsis & nunya' people would remarks 'ooo wow what a pretty name' about dsis. As I have gotten older I am so grateful to have the normal name. She gets all sorts of weird pronunciations and constantly has to spell it. People who haven't met her think it's kind of an ethnic name or something (we are Caucasian) Plus she took her husband's last name when she got married and now her name sounds very ... Interesting indeed. Think along the lines of "Shaquilia Bolony"... What was DM thinking?!

Btw we loved DD's name and still do. To us it is perfect. DD2 will have a nice name that goes fairly well with DD1's but we aren't as 'in love' with it as we are DD's name... Don't think there is another name out there we'll love quite as much.

I got a dull 70s common, DBro got a dull 70s common, DSis got really quite unusual.
Like Claire, Simon, and Amoret.

Mum says she didn't really realise. Did people not think about names kind of going well together back then?

I prefer Dsis' name to my own, but she suits it and I wouldnt have. Id much rather my parents swapped my first and middle names round as my MN is rarer than my ten-a-penny first name.

I gave DD two out of the three girls names I loved when she was born, keeping the third for a sibling. They are very similar, but not silly sounding together, so hopefully one wont end up jealous of the other (if this bump is another dd).

My DH is the only boy so obviously is glad he has his name, but hos two sisters have vastly different styles ofnames - Im convinced MIL thought "this is my last dc Im going to just be as oit there abs possible". Especiallyas DH and his epdest sister have top three (of the time) names.

My sister has a much nicer name than I do. Doesn't bother me. Actually, the only thing that annoyed me was knowing that my Mum wanted to call me Louise but that my Dad snuck off and named me while my Mum was still recovering. As a child, I loved the name Louise.

My brothers have okay names.

Wait thinkivebeenhacked - are you my SIL?

Haha crispy have you got a totally out there name compared to your siblings? If you have, and its also a Sting song, hi SIL!

My youngest Dsis has the nicest name, but I named her and I love her name.

I have an unusual name but DB has a top 10 name (but a really nice one). It is a family name though.

My DS has a pretty popular name but DD has a relatively unusual one.

Ha imagine that ^

Oops wrong thread!!

My mum gave me the name she loved and always wanted for a daughter etc etc. I like it, but it's very common in my age group and will 'date' me to the 80s more and more I think.

She gave my sister a name I know she likes, but not as much as mine. I much prefer it to my own, it is timeless, pretty, and not very common.

It's not something any of us deeply think about. As long as a name isnt outrageous (or made up imho) sibling names aren't important.

I couldn't understand why my parents picked my name (all through school felt it to be massively unpopular and old-fashioned) and a few years' later gave my DSis a much more modern name. When it came to my own DCs I was keen to choose with DH names that flowed together and didn't sound as if they came from different eras.

One of my friends grew up with sibling name envy.

She was named after her mum's best friend (who had sadly passed the previous year), and the name was "of the period" when the friend was born, but very much dated when my friend was born in 1982. Think of a name in the vein of Brenda and Denise.

Her younger brother and sister, both got classic names, not dated ones like hers.

She ended up reverting to her middle name, which is a more classic name, and far from being upset about it, her mum actually concurred that perhaps she'd have been better off using her friend's name as the middle name and not the first.

Yes I prefer DDs name to ds name . I still today 9 years later know I went with the right decision about DDs name and I love it . Ds I'm a bit "meh" about . He's 18mo and I just never found a name I loved like I love DDs , and just went for the nicest names dh and I compiled .

If you want to know the names on me

My sister got a nice unusual name that it still ununusual and I got one that became common a few years later. I prefer her name but she says its a dog name. I like all my children's names equally and they are quite themed.

I had a traditional verging on boring sort of name (though the short form is OK), my little brother has a Scottish name that was really really unpopular when we were young, but has become quite fashionable now. He hated having an unusual name and people always asking how to spell it or what it was short for (it wasn't short of anything) or, occasionally, coming out with "ooh, we used to have a dog called that". He is kind of enjoying the fact that in his 40s you can finally get personalised stuff with his name on. I would have liked a trendier name when I was young but I feel fairly neutral about it now - it's just "me".

Me and my brother both got great names :)

I reckon dd4 might have name envy, she is my 5th child and 4th daughter and after naming 4 girls ( with lots of middle names) I literally ran out of girls names I liked...so I gave her a boys name I loved....not unisex like Charlie/Sam/Billie ..... Male like john....she does have some girls middle names she can use as she gets older if she hates her name.we did try to use the middle names when she was a few weeks old but none of them stuck, her first name hasn't actually stuck and she goes by "baby" most of the time....she will cost me shitloads in therapy that one!