Too similar sibling names

[MyBluntSloth]

My daughter is Charlotte and i am expecting my second, another girl, due in October. Charlotte's middle name is Pearl and the new baby's would be Opal. I really like the name Colette and I think it goes really well with Charlotte with the similar structure but different soundings. I also like the names Chloe and Nicole but I would still strongly prefer Colette over them. Is it too similar?

I can see you're thinking Coleen Rooney here 😂

How ridiculous to make such a sweeping statement. People aren't 'hating' on the baby name choice FFS, the names sound way too similar, and that's the only reason people are advising the OP against using them together.

I think Colette is a lovely name!

I love both of these names! I don't understand why people are saying they sound similar. Yes, they both start with C but that's it. Thousands of families have children with names starting with same letter as their siblings. And the girls being siblings, isn't it lovely to have names that have a similar structure to them. And yes, they will be able to tell their names apart when you call them (as long as they want to listen xD). But obviously there's no right or wrong here. Just do what you want to do. Big thumbs up from me tho (oh for the middle names as well, love them).

I personally think Charlotte and Colette are far too similar. I think if you are going for the same first initial the feel of the name needs to be a bit different, while still in keeping with the first sibling.

Charlotte Pearl & Clementine Opal (Lottie & Clemmie)

Charlotte Pearl & Cordelia Opal

Charlotte Pearl & Coralie Opal

Charlotte Pearl & Cressida Opal (Lottie & Cressie)

It makes no sense whatsoever.

You want to call her Colette which is obvious from your thread so why even bother to start a thread just so you can argue if someone points out potential reasons why you shouldn't.

Charlotte and Colette aren't that similar. As a child I would be more pissed off with Pearl or Opal as my middle name as I think they are awful but again your kids your choice.

Both lovely names, but too similar in my opinion.

I think the middle names similarity doesn't matter as you hardly ever need to say them after announcing the name. Colette and Charlotte are very similar but there are sibling names in existence that are way more similar than those two. Have you considered Nicolette?

I personally like Colette more than Charlotte which reminds me of puddings.

BTW Colette is much better than Coleen.

They're way too similar.

The same initial thing really reminds of big Christian fundamentalist families where everyone's name begins with the same letter - it just seems very cult-like to me 😂

I can't imagine circumstances under which I need to "shout upstairs". I was brought up in a house where, if you needed to speak to someone, you would go and knock on their room's door. So, how the names sound when shouted would not be a consideration for me whatsoever.

They're a bit similar yes and some people can be a bit unkind and mocking about same letter for all family members theme. I knew a family where the parents were both J and they gave their sons J names too and some people laughed at them and were sneery about it which I thought was unnecessary and said more about those mocking then it did about the J family tbh.

It sounds like you really want to use the name so use it. What other people think shouldn't stop you.

Not keen on Collette sorry. Prefer
Camilla
Claudia
Catherine
Cressida

They're far too similar. And having the same initial letter just for the sake of it is very twee and, if I'm being brutally honest as you posted in AIBU, about as classy as the Rooneys and their brood of Ks.

Ditch the C and pick a girl's name that isn't almost identical to her sister's.

I dont think they're too similar because they are both pronouced differently on both syllables.

Are you actually being serious? Or is this whole post a Saturday morning wind up?

So ok, let's for instance say you're serious. If your family member wanted to let you know your dinner was ready, they'd walk all the way upstairs and knock on your door to let you know?

Or, in my experience, it's been the norm for people to shout upstairs to tell you dinner or tea is ready. And when I mean shout I don't mean as in "SHOUTING' aggressively!

Way too similar.

Colette is just Charlotte with a few letters missing.

I think a lot of posters on here read mallory towers and cross it over into RL. I find that names aren't shortened anymore unless dictated by the child. The tales of mistaken ID doesn't happen anymore. Hospital letters are addressed "to the parents of (full name)". How often will the names be said together? not that often and rarely in adulthood. I see you are going for birthstone middle names, I prefer Collette rose (for rose quartz) tbh, I don't think opal flows at all and it isn't classy and elegant. Annette isn't that different, so no need to swap to that.

Personally, I think they are too similar.

Yes, I'm being serious. We don't shout for dinner. We go and let the person know the dinner is ready. It's really not that hard to go up the stairs, hardly makes up 5% of the daily step count. The only person who shouts upstairs in my house is my partner and it drives us all crazy because he will be bellowing at the bottom of the stairs instead of walking up 12 steps to see that the person he calls for is in the shower.

We will rarely need to shout as we use google home when eg. dinner is ready. I find it more convenient and pretty cool

Tbf, people now text or similar, or get alexa to do it, they especially will in ten years time. I was brought up to not shout through rooms and like having a milk bottle on the table, a lot of WC families didn't.

They do have a similar sounding softness at the end but they go nicely together. I think they’re different enough.

I have 2 nieces (sisters) with VERY similar sounding names. I, along with other family members, often get them mixed up or sometimes say a combination of the 2.
I’m not usually bad with things like that, but my brain can’t work it out for some reason! Thankfully, they have shortened nicknames we can use.

I think it's fine

Otherwise try Nicolette Opal

I really like the name Colette. They are kind of similar though but not like calling them Tia and Mia.

Because they share a lot of the same letters it could almost look like it was done deliberately (even if it wasn’t), like people who have to name all of their ten kids with the same letter T or something.

Ultimately it’s up to you and Colette is a lovely name

I think its kind of special that Colette and Charlotte look similar but when spoken sounds different but i am not sure if they sound different enough