to think that people should give their children names that "fit" together?

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by the way this is only a light hearted thought so please don't get too cross but I read an article in doctors waiting room about Lauren Booth whose daughters are Alexandra and Holly. Now why would you choose elegant, classic, easily shortened, Alexandra and then choose Holly which is in the Milly Molly Mandy school of overly baby girl names imo?

hm, paranoia setting in...I have a Sven, a Yannic and a Flynn....do they actually go together?

Are you having SirArthur and Doyle next Custy?

Arnie was HOT when he did Conan.

Man, them were the days!

I bet you all have babies called Mandy and Sandy or Roy 'n' Troy

My mum told me about twin babies born in the hospital where she work called Dolce & Gabanna.

I shit you not

ghosty - PMSL at Megan being wrong... although she does call her Meg, so maybe it's just me that wrongly assumed it was short for Megan . I do hope it's her that cocked up somehow...

expat - bleeuughh,he was never ever hot!

The in laws called ds1 Christopher and dd2 Christina. Guess their religion...

my siblings have normal boring names like, but not, Joanne, Sarah and Deborah

so tell me why my Ma and Pa saw fit to call me Cressida Emmanuelle Lucinda III

I don't think names "ought" to sound out of the same box. But, again, I do notice when they don't.

There was an article, years ago, in something like Harpers & Queen about some (posh) 10-child families & running through the name-sequences was such lovely reading. (At least two of the families had finished their brood with a little girl called Decima.)

I read an artical a few weeks ago, and the woman writing it had two little boys; Wilf and Fred.

I worked with a girl once called Joy- she had 3 sisters all called...Joy

Dolce & Gabbana: rofl

Wilf is a perfectly good name, I'll have you know.

How odd Quicker, why would someone call all their daughters by the same name?

Actually, now I think about it again, I think they were actually all called Angela, but the girl I worked with's middle name was Joy so that's what she called herself. I think another one did the same but 2 did call themselves Angela

I think my DDs names all kind of go they are all Hebrew not deliberately but because I liked them.

My friend has just had ger 4th DC she has slightly changed a James, Hannah, Harry and a very Spanish new daughter with her other names just sounds odd.

I know a rainbow, sapphire and derek.
not sure what meds mum was on

PMSL@NIgella. Derek isn't a great name no matter what his siblings were called.

I know of a Porche and Mercedes do you think if they ever have a boy it will be Bentley?
My dp is called Lee and his brother is Perry, im sure his mum must have loved the table sauce

Or you could go too far in the matchy-matchy names, such as Kenten, Trenten, Tristen, and Presten (and she's had one more that I've yet to find out his name)

Or the infamous Duggar family over in the US that have a bazillion kids all starting with the letter "J".

I "matched" my kids' names with that they can have longer more "adult" sounding names or short "kid" sounding nicknames, but otherwise they all have regular non-matchy names.

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i did have a lovely friend years ago who was michelle married to michael who had maya and marcus

What a lot of twaddle! Why on earth do the names of siblings need to "match"? They are people, not a sofa and wallpaper

I think Alexandra and Holly are lovely names, separately or together.
But I have Ben and Sam which are a bit matchy matchy now I think about it..