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?

Eliza and Lucy are completely different but we just liked both. Individuals just like their names are.
It bugs me more when names don't flow iyswim rather than fit with other childrens iyswim.

Don't think mine - Cameron and Isaac - go together well. But they suit each boy just perfectly, so I'm happy

Had a hard enough time coming up with a boy's name that me and DH both liked on each occasion that whether or not they went together was low down the list of priorities. In fact, not on the list.

I would only really notice if they were horribly. glaringly different - like, I don't know, Tarquin and Waynetta...

We gave dd1 a bit of a hippy name (it would sit comfortable alongside Rainbow and Apple), but when I was pregnant with ds, the names I most liked for a girl were Gertie or Susan. You can't have a Rainbow and a Susan. We came up with a girls' name that fitted with DD's name. Ds was a boy anyway so it didn't matter.

I forgot this interesting one - I know someone with two daughters and dd2's name is an anagram of dd1's. I find that eerie.