To have similar 'patterned' names for kids.

[MoaningSickness]

So, I'm heavily pregnant with my second child and DH and I have hated all name choices that the other has liked until this one name... but I'm worried that it's too 'similar' to our firstborns because it has the same pattern of vowels and consonants, I.e. Ava and Eli.

Am I mad? Will anyone else notice and care?

We probably won't have a third so we won't have to worry about 'fitting' the inadvertent pattern or it being odd when the next is Alexandria or something.

All my kids name start with vowel and have same number of letters

I know two sisters called Tina and Nina
And a brother and sister called Jan and Jane
And another brother and sister called Ann and Andrew

Hmm I know an Ellie and Evie and I think it is a.bit samey.
Mine have the same.number of letters in their first names which I like and though they don't have the same.number of syllables in their first names they do in their full names including middle names. This sort of secret matchiness pleases me. I think most people don't notice. My grandma was one of 12 - she had a Harry and a Harold as brothers

I once knew an older lady who's children were called Christopher and Christine, both Chris for short! Couldn't get more confusing than that!!

I'm sure your names are fine op.

I know a brother and sister called Daniel and Daniela (correct spelling)
Kind of lacking in imagination...
My 2 boys have the same number of syllables and letters in their names-not deliberate.
Something like Ava and Eli sounds lovely and isn't noticeably similar.

@moaningsickness me and my sister have COMPLETELY different names (initials, syllables, rhyme, language of origin) and my family still call us by the wrong name.

I remember reading quite some time ago about someone who loved the name Paul so much, that she called her kids Paul, Pauline and John-Paul. Avoid that, and you'll be fine.

A brother and sister in my kids' school are called Darcy and Darby, I can never remember which one is which. I think if you're going to give them matchy names change more than one letter.

I don't like similar names for siblings, I know two pairs of siblings with only one letter difference to their names and it makes me cringe a bit. I also always get their names mixed up. However, hardly anyone will know once they're grown up, and besides, I don't see much similarity between Ava and Eli!

You should call your DC whatever you like. I do find it a bit naff when there's a "theme" (eg, all starting with a J or something), but that's just me.

I did have a school friend called Victoria who had a sister called Nicola, which sounds fine. But Vicky and Nicky were very easily confused, and I don't think they'd thought that one through... they'd call one and get the other.

Ava and Eli don't sound anything a like. . The only similarities are is that they have the same number of letter and start and end with a vowel
About similar sibling names for siblings. How about the same names. My ex friends cusion with a brother on his dads side with the same name as him. Chosen by the mother obviously, but even so. Still rather odd if you ask me.
I also know of a brother and sister. Jodie and Joe.

My uncle has got two children called Lucy and Lucas.

Ava and Eli are fine together. I know 2 sets of sisters called Amy and Emma, which are much more alike. Also siblings called Alex and Alice.

**And also wonder how many times a day the parents called the wrong name by mistake!)

my kids names are not alone and I do this daily

Not alike!

I used to babysit boy girl twins named Sean and Shauna. It still baffles me. Patterned names are fine.

My children have 'matching' names, it is confusing and a pain when you are tired and get them muddled up, but they sound lovely together.

My Gran told me she knew sisters called April, May and June when she was young

I knew Tim and Tom identical twins as a child.

My daughter and niece have names that are nothing alike and I still call them each other’s names constantly.
I teach 30 children with mostly different names and I call them each other’s names. I think that is always going to happen.

I used to know twin boys when I was a teenager and their names were Thomas and Gerald - aka Tom and Gerry 😅

I know a family who all have three letter names, mum, dad and three kids. Think of something like Joe, Ava, Leo (not real names). Also worked with a woman years ago, she and her sister and brother all have a name beginning with the same letter.

I know someone with two boys called Freddie and Teddie, personally I cringe when I hear their names (but I don't like either of them anyway.) I suppose in the long run they will move out and lead relatively separate lives, so as adults they won't be referred to as Freddie and Teddie, they will be referred to as the individuals they are (unless they end up working in the same place.)

Names with the same format, rather than sounding the same or rhyming, are different.

Personally I don't like rhyming names, they are easy to get mixed up when you call on one child and you have to keep making sure the one you are calling on knows it is them you want. But that might stem from first school when I was in a class with someone with a name that rhymed with mine, think Maude and Claude, Jamie and Amy type thing. When the teacher called on one of us we both had to work out which name they'd called out, especially as it was often over the background hum of the other children, couldn't necessarily hear the first part of the name because of the noise so only heard the ending rhyme bit. Got a bit fed up with it all of the time.

If the names are easily distinguishable from each other then that makes it easier for your dcs to tell who you are referring to/calling on etc, but as long as they work for you then I can't envisage a problem, you like them, use them.

I've got (I'm "out" any way on here, so) a Karyn (pronounced KAHren) and Korbyn...I like it!

DS2's name follows the style of DS1's in my defence I think they both stand quite well on their own!