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Curious about how to match siblings names

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MarchNowFebMum · 24/03/2009 09:08

There's often posts on here about how to pick names that 'match' the older siblings.

I may be dim but I don't get it - what are the rules of matching? Obviously Connie and Bonnie sounds hideous together but I don't get what logic people use to respond to these questions.

This is a serious question - worried I'll make a mistep with dc2!

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Squirdle · 25/03/2009 19:22

We have a Dylan and a nephew called Thomas who is 9 months older. raised a few eyebrows whilst holidaying in Walers last year when we were shouting 'Dylan, Thomas!'

I have Alex, Caleb and Dylan. I think they all go well together despite caleb being unusual.

I think if you say siblingsnames together often enough, then they then naturally go together. And people generally like a certain kind of name ie, I would never choose Savannah/Chardonnay for a girl.

Nyrrem · 25/03/2009 19:01

Have ridiculously long thin garden. So wanted names I could easily shout; Dd name starts with same consonant that ds name ends with.

kayzr · 25/03/2009 18:55

I was going to call Dylan 'Dylan Thomas', but when I suggested it DH laughed. There is a poet called that, but more embarassingly I studied his work in my GCSE's. So he is Dylan George.

juniperberry · 25/03/2009 18:23

I've met two mum's recently with sons called Thomas & Dylan.... I think its great and makes it really easy for me to remember! (smile)

mamaspice · 25/03/2009 18:06

I really like the name Thomas and think its fine hannahsaunt but it did run through my head tom..... also dear friends ds is called Thomas - v. annoying when friends call their children names you like. LOL but that is probably a different thread altogether. Thanks for ideas LuLuBai because I am finding this naming business tricky. Will def avoid William hee hee.

LuLuBai · 25/03/2009 17:57

Sorry

hannahsaunt · 25/03/2009 17:27

Hey! We have a Harry and a Thomas. And a ds3 . He's not called Richard.

LuLuBai · 25/03/2009 17:08

OK mamaspice - I think most classic English type names go with Harry but I would avoid Tom and Dick . Possibly might also avoid William unless you want people to think you have a Royal fixation. Other than that for boys Freddie, James, Jake, Archie, Felix etc etc for girls Flora, Alice, Mathilda. I might avoid Lucy, Molly and other names ending in 'y' to avoid tweeness but they could still work.

mamaspice · 25/03/2009 16:32

I am quite interested in all this so far and agree that its good if there is a match. What boys or girls names go with Harry?

BikeRunSki · 25/03/2009 16:11

I wouldn't say that my siblings names "go" that well stylistically (well maybe the first three) but they begin with A and end in Z. And after 34 years they seem like the most normal set of names in the world.

Wigeon · 25/03/2009 15:27

I know a real life Martha and Arthur! Married though, so not quite the same as siblings of course.

Their DDs are called Nora (c.15 years old) and Djuna (c.13 years old). American. Match as both pretty unusual?

lou222 · 25/03/2009 15:26

i think freddie and dylan are great names and don't understand the clash thing with them?
Teguela - that is horrific never heard of it before
my pet hate is people who name their children with the same initials
i think it's twee and unoriginal - sorry!

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OliviaMumsnet · 25/03/2009 14:58

I have a friend with a DD called Florence - she is expecting another DD and I suggested Siena but not sure she agrees

Takver · 25/03/2009 14:55

I have also just remembered siblings at a friend's school, surname Austen who were called Maurice and Jane

SomeMightSay · 25/03/2009 14:49

I have 2 ds's, both have biblical names, one old testement, the other new testement. The only thing I don't like is it sounds better saying ds2 and ds1 rather than ds1 and ds2 iyswim. Ds1's name has 2 syllables and ds2's has one.

Cadelaide · 25/03/2009 14:38

But why do they need to go together? They won't be living together for most of their lives (hopefully).

Takver · 25/03/2009 14:28

I used to know a Jason whose older brother was called Tarquin.

Fine as a pair, all very classical, Jason & the Argonauts etc.

Didn't combine so well by the mid 80s.

TheJester · 25/03/2009 14:24

ha.HA.

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LuLuBai · 25/03/2009 13:52

Sarah, Hannah, Leah? Those all go together quite well.

Caroline, Camilla, Cordelia?

Another pair of brothers I went to school with were Michael and Rafael. I always wondered if the 'ael' endings were deliberate and what a 3rd sibling might have been called if there were one.

SarahL2 · 25/03/2009 13:23

My Mum got herself into a pickle because she decided that all of our first names should end in AH and our middle names should begin with a C!

By the time she got to DD3, the names necessarily had to get more unusual.

My sister still gets a bit sulky when me and sister2 can find our names in seaside rock etc and she can't.... Used to cause tears when we were little!!

GossipMonger · 25/03/2009 13:01

I have friends who have an Alexander and Olivia and their third is Lola! IMVHO Lola just doesnt go with the other names.

My boy names go together though one is Biblical and the other isnt. Both have different syllables but sound fine together.

Names that go would be (IMVHO)

Grace and Ruby

Jack and Emily

Shayla and Skye

Memphis and Skylar

Names that dont go would be

Liam and Alfie

Matthew and Harrison

Thomas and Tegan

BonsoirAnna · 25/03/2009 12:40

I did say "usually" as rhyming names like the ones you cite are quite unusual IME!

Crikey, though!

LuLuBai · 25/03/2009 12:38

Oh I don't know about that BonsoirAnna. I went to school with a set of siblings called Milo, Coco and Rollo.

Those may well be in the same socio-cultural register but the also most certainly rhyme!

BonsoirAnna · 25/03/2009 10:39

By "matching names", people don't usually mean alliteration or rhyming, but rather names that are in the same socio-cultural register.