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REALLY popular name with REALLY unusual siblings?

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CouldWeStartAgainPlease · 04/10/2021 09:38

I'm due baby 3 this week and DH and I have struggled a bit with names.

DC 1 and 2 have very unusual names, DC1 was the only one born that year and DC2 was one of 2 born that year. They are not ooneek spellings or made up or anything just quite ancient underused names that we happened to like.

For baby 3 we have some names in the mix but probably the frontrunner is incredibly popular. Like top 10 for the past 5 years popular.

The 'sibset' would be something along the lines of, say... Lysander, Ottilie, and Jack. Not those names but that kind of unusual 1&2 and very commonplace 3.

I know popularity doesn't really matter if it's a nice name but it just feels a bit weird. Surname is very, very common surname as well (ie Brown, Jones, Smith type name)

PS also looking for inspiration so feel free to post your favourite names (we don't know the sex)

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toastofthetown · 04/10/2021 14:02

Lysander, Ottilie and Jack sound fine to me. Maybe skewed by the fact that Ottilie is so trendy though. But both example names, while unusual (in Lysander’s case), sound very familiar.

Pollux, Mnemosyne and George sounds more jarring. But as long as they don’t rhyme, I don’t think sibling names matter too much. They’ll only be a set of a short time in their lives.

EJM87 · 04/10/2021 13:54

My top 10 names

Ezra
Kairo
Roman
Sawyer
Jacob
Demetrius
Matthias
Luca
Orion
Isaac

Sienna
Alaia
Amara
Thea
Athena
Ave (AH-vay)
Autumn
Maliyah
Mya
Linnea (Lyn-nay-AH)

bloominglovelyorange · 04/10/2021 11:57

As a bystander, I honestly wouldn't given it a second thought. But if I did think about it I'd think it was nice mix of names as the third name being more popular suggests youve obviously picked 3 names you love rather than just picking names because they're unusual.

Balonzette · 04/10/2021 11:36

If the names are in a similar style then I don't think it would be noticable - I mean, Lysander, Ottilie and Jack does sound a bit funny together. Two long, elaborate names and then the short and plain Jack made me smile a bit and think "poor Jack".

But if the common name 'fit' with the siblings names better, I'd not have thought anything of it. Something like Arthur, which is extememly popular, I'd have thought atill works together - Lysander, Ottilie and Arthur.

I also know siblings Isaac, Jonah and Amos. Obviously Isaac is an awful lot more common that either Isaac or Jonah, but it isn't noticable as they're a similar classic, biblical style.

Although I don't normally think sibling names need to 'go', I do think that it would be a bit odd to have two names of a very similar style and one name that just is totally different, like Lysander, Ottilie and Jack. Ophelia, Genevieve and Sue. Henry, George and Tyler.

WithMyEncyclopedia · 04/10/2021 09:44

We have this with 2dc. Dc1 is consistently top 20 (although don't actually come across that many - far more Arlos, Dylans etc) and dc 2 is very much bottom of the rankings. I think it's fine.

Weirdly I've seen another mum on social media who has almost the same named dc!

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