Why does it matter what the other child is called?!

Like PPs have said, it's so one DC doesn't feel left out, or get teased, or make everyone's face go

I mean, what was Mrs Rabbit thinking. Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail do not go with Peter and it annoys me more than it should every time I watch Peter Rabbit.

When I see these posts I always imagine they’re looking to form a family band when the children are older.

I don’t see anything wrong with calling your kids John and Ptolemy. 🤷‍♀️

I have a friend who named her first DD Isabella-Anne and her second DD Sammi. At the time, I idly wondered why she’d chosen names for her children that were so different from each other.

Doesn’t really matter though.

Yay someone who agrees! I got shot down for asking this on one of “those” threads!!

I think people give the older children's names to give the Mumsnet crowd an idea of their taste. If your first two kids have classic Irish names then there isn't much point in a swarm of Mumsnetters suggesting Jet or Ace for your third, is there?

I agree - they are individuals and names don't need to go together.

I however do sometimes mention my DD's or DS's name so people can see what type of name I like and not suggest something I hate and waste their time.

My mate has a Georgie and Marnie. Individually great, shouted at a park, naff

I have a friend named Britt her sister is Christina. I like both names but I will admit I was surprised on hearing that her sister had what was a much more often head name than Britt is.

I am often told mine do not go but I feel they do. They are all of European heritage just like my children :)

I think people like them to follow the same sort of theme and sound right together. It’s a bit weird having a child with a completely average, traditional name such as Arthur then having another called Leaf or something equally hippyish.

Because you’re going to be shouting them in succession for many years and having a Annabel and a Bertha for example just sounds a bit Wanting names that are a similar style is not narcissistic or wanting the portray ‘picture perfect’ families. Some people get het up over the strangest things on here.

I get why people like their kids names to go well with each other, though I like that my kids names don't match at all.

It’s not so the names match but to make sure they don’t sound a bit silly together with very differing styles.

A popular vlogger has two girls called Molly and Bella and has just had a little boy called Cloud. Completely different style and sounds a bit off to me with his sisters popular names.

It matters because you end up saying the two names one after another for the rest of your life. Dozens of times a day when they're little. And people say the two names together to you all of the time. Me and my sister are 40 and 50 and my dad still often hears 'how are InDubious and Sister?'. If they sounded awful together it would get really annoying.

The Nightingale family were doing the Grand Tour of Europe when Florence arrived.
They were in Greece when Parthenope put on an appearance . I’ve always felt sorry for Parthenope .
Also Lourdes , Brooklyn el al .

My Mum went to school with non identical twin sisters, one of whom had an Alexandrina type name, the other had an Ann type name. 'Ann' used to say she felt short changed as she thought 'Alexandrina' had lots of nickname options, whereas she didn't.

I know someone who was the only child in the family whose name wasn't from her families culture and she felt sad about that as she wondered why her parents cared to reflect their heritage with their other children, and not her. People did notice and it was commented on. Think 'Caoimhe', 'Domnhall' and 'Amy'.

I don't think names have to be matchy matchy, or incredibly similar but it's worth thinking about what the children may think of them compared to siblings as they grow up.

I think it matters a little bit - for example if you call one child something simple like ‘Tom’ and then the next one something more out there like ‘Spartacus’...
But in general no.

I know of a family with three children, Tom, Lucy & Fox (names of first two children named but very much along those lines). Fox is now 4. I still pause slightly before I say his name as I quickly do a mental check of whether that was a newborn nickname whilst they decided his name or something rather than his actual name. I'm not the only one to do it. At the christening, we were all there with ears alert in case his christened name was something else

No you are not the only one. Siblings won't always be together so I don't think it matters. Not sure what it means by names going with other names.
Other than having names that all begin with the same letter deliberately or rhyme or something like that I odnt think it matters.

I don't think it's an important consideration but I remember writing the two names together to see if they seem weird!

I think 'goes with' is about someone's preferred style of name rather than about matching in a twee way e.g. Chloe and Joey, Daisy and Lavender or Tim and Jim. To me, a pairing such as Ebenezer and Jayden don't 'go' in that I wouldn't think to put them together as they feel like very different styles. Mind you, I've taught a few sets of twins whose parents chose very similar names e.g. Joanne and Joanna, Hayden and Jayden so clearly matching matters to some people.

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I actually go by my middle name and know a couple of people who do to. My first name is so horrible that I am so thankful I have a middle so I can assure you that middles are very useful sometimes."

You could call yourself anything you want. You don't need a middle name for that.

I do find some combos odd to be honest. I once taught a sibset where the girl had a very pretty, well-known name (e.g. Rose) and her brother had a very pompous sounding, unusual name (e.g. Horatio) and it really struck me as peculiar. I even wondered if they had different dads despite being close in age. Also taught twins with really similar names (similar to Ella and Bella - think one letter difference), which I found a bit much.

My mum and dad fostered twins one was called Gary and one was called Hugo still makes me chuckle.
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It's to do with taste in names.
If you liked names starting with a certain letter for DC1, you probably still like names starting with the same letter when looking for a name for DC2.

I find the current trend for long names for boys strange. In my age group, only Christopher, Nicholas, Timothy and Jonathan were really popular, and they were Chris, Nick, Tim and Jon.