Curious about how to match siblings names

I have a Max already and number two on way.

If a girl we were jokingly going to call her Minnie... but we probably wont dare! I like Mariella or Lily at the moment.

But boys names are foxing us! Any ideas for a good - "go with but not too similar" name for a brother for Max??

I've heard of brothers called Richard and Ricardo - the same name in different languages, surely??!

I made it my mission to have childrens names that a) didnt match and b) where completely different from everyone we new.

That didnt quite work Rio DD1 is fairly unusual but DD1 wanted to name DD2 and choose Daisy. However i drew the line then and took over for the other 2 . Beau for DS3 and Serge for DS4.

The same initial thing is VERY annoying. My Dad is called Neil, I am Nicola and for some weird reason he wanted to call his son Neil too. So there were 3 N Kirby's in our family and the post thing drove us all mad. As did the phonecalls asking for Neil Kirby.... 'which one senior or junior?' most of the time people didn't know

I think it's really personal what you think 'goes' but you can always ask and MNetters are not short of opinions on names!

I have an Oliver and really liked 'Blythe' for dd but it felt too modern and different compared to Oliver which is traditional and commonplace! I was looking for something which 'went' but ended up with Mirissa which is a place name and very unusual - so I guess some people would think it doesn't 'go' with Oliver, but I don't think it clashes IYSWIM. And he is Oli, she is Miri, so 'goes' better thay way.

Flossi a third 'ee' sound may be a bit much. I know I have 2 , but my other child is Jude, so no 'ee' sounds on the end of his name!

Kathryn, it's Ted 'Theodore' Logan (and Bill S. Preston, Esquire). I may have seen that movie a few times when I was younger.

My two nephews are named Leon and Dion, I still cringe but hey my sister-in-law really likes it!!

Expecting baby 2 soon and my DD's name starts with P but pronounced as an F, I really like Poppy but concerned that 2 P names will look silly. Hope that baby is a boy as will be named after my grandfather Jack. Easy.

Already have a Harry and Libby and thinking of katie or Jamie for the next one due soon.........what do you think!

I have Edward & William. Didn't really think about it at the time but SO many people have said "Oh, like Bill & Ted".....

It doesn't bother me, just didn't occur to me before.

The other comment we get is "Very royal names", that does get to me, like we're wanna be aristocracy!

Anyway, I still love the names and they do seem to go well together!

I overheard a woman talking about "Ralph and Elaine" - I presumed they were her neighbours or in-laws or something - turns out they are her pre-school children.

Grapes -- go for it! Philippa, Isabella, Victoria, Matilda, Etheldreda... no probs there, surely?

(though be prepared for a lot of shortening if so -- I know a family of girls called Felicity, Elizabeth, Victoria and Katherine, known to all as Fizz, Liz, Vick and Kate)

Worzel - I know another George and Grace so not so unusual a combo (assuming that your Grace is older than Geroge as you named her first so you can't be the same person!)

Alistair - LOL at Bert and ERnie (am assuming you are joking...)

I really don't like the whole same-initials thing - I knew someone who was so keen on the letter K once that their 4th was called Kristopher just so they could get another K in.

Littlepurple - know what you mean, 3 Finlays/Finleys in DD2's school year, I'm sure everyone thought it was an unusual name until they all went to school. Names go like that sometimes.

I never gave any thought to how the names went together - I think the orgiins of their names are German, Greek and French. Emma, Georgina and Amelie. I think in one of the baby name books Emma and Georgina were lumped in the same category of "Old English charm" which means DD3 should have been Amelia but I didn't like the long "ee" sound in the middle hence the French version. (She just gets called Amelia or Amy Lee by most people who read her name anyway...)

Squirdle - I have a Caleb too! And I love it because it is unusual but at the same time it's really old and it's not silly unusual, if you know what I mean.

Also, steer well away from Finnley, anyone who considers it. I work in childcare and every other child I've cared for is called Finnley (or Tyler). There are bloddy MILLIONS of them. The entire country will be named either Finnley or Tyler at this rate.

I went with Charlotte for DD1, then had DTs both girls! Went for Elizabeth and Alexandra, following a quite unintentional english regal theme! Thinking of having a go for a fourth and have been trawling lists to find another regal female name we like, just in case! Boys names were all picked out and ready to go, but no joy so far!
Don't feel you have to theme, go with whatever you think is best, and that you like, they are your children after all!

Mine and my sisters names are all English and Iranian names, and Mum is English and Dad is Iranian. My sisters names are Tina and Dana, I got stuck with the commonly more British Nikki

My dd's names go well together one starts with a K and the other with a C (pronounced like a k) which means that although they go well together I spend half my time called the wrong child by the wrong name as they start with the same sound.

There are twins in my family called Sam and Pam, I think they're in their 40's now.

Haha, I love this thread. I have a dd and had a name in mind if I ever get a ds - but having read all of this I think it would be out on a socio-cultural AND sounding basis. I still like the names, though!

I knew a couple where the dad was from Syria and the mum was Norwegian. One child had an arabic name, the other a traditional Scandinavian name. They didn't seem to go together but they did if you knew the family background.

When we picked our girls names. Abigail was very last minute but we always thought of what it could/maybe shortened to, hence we call her Abi, which we love. The other half liked Amelea potentially for our second but I was thinking two with the same intials. Nightmare when they start getting post!! Weird I know. So we went for Bonnie our other option and Amelea as a middle name. Go for names you like and dont worry about matching.

We have a Bert and an Ernie.

They seem to go together quite well.

How about Sertraline for a girl and Prozac for a boy?

I named DD1 after DH's gran and DD2 after DH's great aunt (ie his gran's sister). There are three more sisters to go through if necessary but the two we have are both Dicken's characters too, so we could go go there

I live miles away from my sister, so matching or non so names, no longer an issue. If they don't sound great together, it doesn't matter. They could choose a terribly matched partner name (sur or fore) in adulthood.

In Walers!!