To ask if you'd find this odd

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Family with two children, one has a name in the top 10 for that year and fairly consistent in popularity throughout history (biblical name - think Matthew and so on.)

The second has a name that's very, very rare.

No I wouldn't.

Nope but then I know quite a few families with names that don't match in terms of popularity.

No I wouldn't. Names don't have to match AFAIK.

No. People choose names in accordance with their preferences, not some ranking system.

I never undersood this whole matchy matchy thing with kids names. Probably because my name is very uncommon as is one of my DC next to common names on siblings

I am always baffled in the Baby Names topic when people ask 'What goes with' or 'a brother for'. Just name the baby.

I suppose I just wondered as people often comment on it :)

Are people that interested in other people's children's names?

My 3 siblings all have "matchy" biblical names. Mine is a very modern (at the time I was born) none biblical name.

It's just a coincidence my two children have Irish names..we just picked names we liked and they both happened to be more common in Ireland

No this wouldn't bother me

My dsis named her ds1 a very popular traditional name (think Thomas or similar). Her ds2 was born and was named something incredibly unusual (think Socrates or similar!). Both boys suit their names so I don't think it's odd.

I've never heard of anyone in real life agonising over whether their kid's names "go". Over the course of their lives they'll spend a comparatively short time as part of a unit anyway, what the hell does it matter?

I think it's because they sound like they are from different sets of parents

The only problem that I can see is the second child disliking their name and wishing they had a "normal" name like their sibling. I was the unusually named child in this scenario and I hated that everyone always commented on my name, I always had to spell it, could never get personalised things in gift shops with my name on - all problems my top ten named sibling did not have. I still think about changing it by deed poll sometimes but I can't really be arsed with the faff of having everything changed, passport etc.

Wouldn't really think about it.

Unless there's a bit of gender bias at play. For example, they call a boy Thomas Edward "because he has to be taken seriously at work!" but they call a girl Lulubelle Trixie-Bee Shufflebutt because "tee hee it's cute lol".

Both my children have old testament names people comment on that as well but I'm a heathen and didn't even realise both names were from the old testament let alone named them for this reason. People will always find something to comment on its just small talk.

Dr yes, child thinks her parents don't like her

I have two birth dc with very traditional 'royal' names. Adopted DD has a very unusual name given to her by her BM. It is very old fashioned and has never featured in any lists. Google only brings one news item up and that was about her. It doesn't bother me but other people who don't know she is adopted have occasionally commented on how different their names are.

Nope my DD has a very, very rare name, never met another, my DS is a James. In 11 years only one person has commented and that's the mw when DS was born.

No, I'm not a child!

Eldest DS named after his great grandfather and grandad fairly traditional, DD named after her grannies and great gran, again fairly traditional although her nickname is fairly unusual for her age (not out there or anything, just unusual) and youngest DS is not named after anyone has an Irish first name and his middle names are his grandad and my best friend who died when I was pregnant.
Don't really understand why it matters though.

No I think it's just their preference

Interestingly, I was watching a series on Netflix yesterday (Beyond) which has a chap in it called Holden and his brother is called Luke, and I commented that it was odd to have one normal name and one a bit more unusual. But odd doesn't mean bad.