Curious about how to match siblings names

Needmorehours, My friend is one of 3 all names begin with A. As do their parents. So when the post comes only his mum knows which is her post.

Margot, I normally get told that Freddie is very German and it is a German name and that Dylan is very Welsh. Apparently I should have stuck with German names or called Freddie something else.

I know of 3 sets of siblings called Jack & Lucy. All would be late teens/early 20's now.

Brothers called Arron & Rowan

I went to school with twins called Jack & Jill.

Also used to live next door to a David, Adam and Daniel. Collectivly known by their father as the DAD squad.

I think my DCs names do go well together. But have made the mistake of using same initial for first names. So now they are getting bigger and post comes addressed to Mr J XXXXXXXXX it could be one of 3!

Freddie and Dylan isn't a clash exactly, but one is more modern than the other.

They are both nice names. I am only over analysing it all on this thread because OP asked for advice. HOnestly, in rl I don't go about over-thinking it so much!

Yes I would if I wanted one wall red and another pink.

I'm often told that my boys names clash and tbh I really don't care at all. They are the names we wanted.

They are Freddie and Dylan btw.

But Kayzr would you paint one wall of your sitting room red and the other wall pink?

I think it's more important for siblings names to be strong individually but to gel naturally.

I mean, it's not vital, crucial, essential. But nor are the vast majority of things we buy or do!

I couldn't care less if my DCs names matched. I personally think it is a load of old codswallop(sp)!!!

If you love the name why does it matter if they match. If you want your DCs to be called Sam and Pam then go ahead.

an example of what would make me raise and eyebrow...

Flora and Casey. I would think one is Victorian and an old-lady classic, the other is modern, unisex and American.

I'd assume that Casey were a boy because I would think, well parents who choose Flora for a girl wouldn't like Casey for a girl would they, so Casey must be a boy.

Does that make sense?

well you choose names that sound like siblings......

Matthew, Thomas and Anna

Jessica and Chloe,

Araminata and Benedict

Willow, Star and Blue,

Cassius, Ophelia and Sebastian

Jack and Lucy

Jayden, Mackenzie and Chantelle

I like them to be from the same style bracket without sounding similar.

eg a good sibling set would be Saul and Ruth (both bible names, but using different consonants and having different initials.).
Reuben and Lydia would also be a good sibling set. Bible names and different consonants.

However, to be really pedantic, Gabriel and Reuben wouldn't be quite so good! Old testament and new testament! But ignore me, I am super pedantic.

Juliet and Annabel (both classic and English)
Olivia and Isabella (both popular and feminine and ending in a)

Beatrix and Florence (feminine but very strong)

I could do this all day. My children's names do 'match' as in go well together, they were both popular in about 1935 and are both nns of two very classic English names.

One unusual name and one normal name sounds odd to me.
John and Star for instance.

I'll probably choose another 'biblical' name to go with DS when we have another.

try to havedifferent initials -it makes lists easier e.g. shoes for x, top for y etc or have the same initial-great for nametapes!!I actually know 2 families who named their children alphabetically-they both had 4 e.g.Anna,Ben,Clare,David better than another friend who called his number 1,2, 3, 4 and5!!I think if one has an unusual name and the others don`t they may be jealous.

Of course, there are no 'rules' to pick matching sibling names...

Use common sense and avoid obvious mismatches (as you said, like Connie, Bonnie or Sam and Pam) and just choose names you love and that go with your surname!