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.

NotYoda I know what you mean but not everyone will pick a name with a theme or idea in mind, we went for the name we loved most, going by the logic of matching, DC 2's name would have been different because it's not that similar to DC1 but it's what we liked, other names similar to DC1 we weren't that keen on. We didn't name either of them after relatives or anything of sentimental reasoning other than loving the name, less so with DC2 sadly as nothing really jumped out at us, now we're expecting a third we have 1 name we like and nothing else.

Jowan for a boy is comparatively popular. And interestingly, Jowan appears to have been used more for a girl than Jowanet, though it is still little used also.

I have a friend with 3 DCs, 2 have modern (nice) names & 1 has an old fashioned name - they seem so odd together, especially when she says their names in a row. To be fair, I couldn't care what anyone's DCs are called but it does seem odd.

Personally I think Jowanet is an awful name but each to their own (but with that name I can totally see why the DC thinks her parents don't like her).

I think it's nice

It does seem a bit weird to have siblings named Rachel, Sarah, Mary and Roxybella-Nevaeh'Destinee.

OP. I'm sorry if this is your child's name, but to be brutally honest, if my parents had called me Jowanet, I would think they had made a very poor decision to use that name, but I wouldn't feel they hated me, my parents always made me feel very loved & I don't see that what my name was would have changed that any.

I can't understand why someone would feel like that being given a name they hate means their parents hate them, unless they knew they were the product of an unwanted pregnancy or if their wanted a boy, not a girl (or vice versa).

I'd be worried about this child if they genuinely feel their parents hate them...but you know, sometimes kids are full of shite 😬

I had to look the name up as I thought it had been made up, but yes, as others have said, it's Cornish. However, even If was my Mum's Mum's name and she had died the day before I was born, I'd still not forgive them.

I don't think you have 'an attitude'. How you know the child is irrelevant.

Now, to your actual question...yes, I do think it's odd if parents call their children very different 'types' of names & I do think it 'can' create sibling disharmony and strange attitudes in/to their lives.

If siblings have very different types of names it does make me wonder why - but then I'm a very curious, interested person in general 😁

I think it's more 'odd' to have siblings with the same initial letter (I know some people do this deliberately and, for some, it's just that those are the names that they like, but I've never got it) and both a variant of the same name.

It's only a syllable different from 'Janet and John', but somehow very different because of the unusual spelling and rare origin.

Although Jonathan will have to go through life saying "it's J-o-n, not J-o-h-n, that's right, no 'h'. Yes, it's short for Jonathan... Well, usually Jon... No, no-one's ever really called me Johnny, but I always knew that I was in trouble when my mum called me 'Jonathan', ha, ha", so there is some parity there.

@notyoda not quite but they do have similar endings!

Sas I have a DF who has named all of her DC with names ending in the ee sound, come to think of it, even the pets have names ending in this sound too...

I once knew identical twins called Antonio and Kevin. That was a bit odd. My children have quite unusual names and when the younger one was born I was conscious that he might feel a bit hard-done-by if he got a 'bog standard' name compared to his brother's (or vice versa), but there were reasons why we chose both of them so it wasn't just like we went for an unusual name to 'match' so much as the people we named them after both had unusual names in the first place.

I know a family with something like... William, Petal, and Fawn.
I do think it's weird tbh.

But people are often weird, so I wouldn't dwell on it for long tbh.

Not at all odd. My sisters names are Claire and Jen. I ended up with Kirby! If you like a name, go for it!

How is Jowanet pronounced? I would only judge because I really don't like the name. If it was Matthew and Genevieve or something I like but uncommon I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

My parents named me and my sister with fairly traditional names, but picked ones with plenty of abbreviations, so there was bound to be some version we liked. Our middle names are after members of the royal family.

Personally i really don't like "unusual" names, it comes across that the parents thought "it's cute for a baby" but haven't considered when they're 30 with a proper job and a partner etc.
Just using Katie Prices kids as an example, being called Princess or Bunny as a baby/young child is ok, and they'll probably like it then, but when they're a full grown adult it's going to be embarrassing. If i were male/lesbian, i'd feel utterly ridiculous having a partner named Princess or Bunny or some other overly girly twee cutesy name. And i'd feel sorry for them, it's got to go on their passports, driving license, all official documents, and so on. Even if they change it legally, they're stuck with it til at least 16, and if the kids at their highschools are anything like they were at mine, they'll be humiliated over it daily.

I don't understand why a child would come to the conclusion their parents don't like them simply because they have an unusual name and their sibling doesn't? There must be more to it then that.
(And whilst it is unusual, she could just go by Jo!)

Thinking of all the weird names the people i went to school with gave their kids. Think the worst one is Blaydon for a boy, all the girls thankfully seemed to have ok names (minus Kiara, bit childish and i think a lion in a disney film?), but May/Mai/Mae seems to be the go to middle name.

Are you the child? Or are you the parent?

Interesting. You see fit to unload the (very outing) name, but not the vaguest circumstances.

Just checked again and not a single Jowanet born and registered between 1916 and 2005 on the birth registers. And in the 500 years before that only one born Jowanet in 1510.

This is a rare name.

On the basis of that I wouldn't be surprised if we're having our legs pulled

There's more people with first names Yoda and Bilbo (and there's only a mere handful of those in the same time period), just to put it into perspective.

It's pronouned Jo - an - et