Jessica and Holly?

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DD1 is Jessica, dd2 is due soon. I love the name Holly but am worried people will just think about a news story from several years ago.
What do you think?

Lovely names individually, but was the first thing I thought when I saw them together sorry

It was the first thing I thought of, too. Sorry.

No I think Ollie & Jessica is quite different. Largely because no one would think you were deliberately referencing the awful murders. The danger with using Holly & Jessica is that people may wonder if it was some slightly tasteless tribute.

Ultimately, whether it is strange or not, the Soham murders have been the first thing most of us have thought about just from the thread title. Lovely though the names are, I just don't think any parent would want that sad reference every time their children were mentioned together.

lol GrownUp I hope not

Is he Oliver? or always Ollie?

It does sound a lot like Holly and Jessica, but maybe because it's a boy and a girl people hear Ollie and don't make the connection...

GrownUP Ollie wouldn't have the same connotations for me at all. I would think "that's short for Oliver" and wouldn't think of the name Holly at all!

But if I were in a supermarket and heard a Mum call "Holly! Jessica! Stop messing about!" I would think of the poor little girls.

I almost always call him Ollie, though he is Oliver. I do often call Jessica Jessie too, maybe that's why it's never occurred to me.

Sorry I thought of Soham too.

Vicky2011 tasteless tribute...? Really?

First thing I thought of too sorry

Looking at the thread title I'm afraid that it did cross my mind that it was a deliberate choice, possibly for twins. Sometimes people do strange things.

What about Polly?

My dd1 is 10. Her two best friends are called Holly and Jessica. The connection comes to mind from time to time especially because of their age. I think I'd avoid the combination for dds. Congratulations on another daughter. I have two and it rocks

Holly is very over used anyway

There are 2 Holly's in my ds' class

Yes Runlo if I met sisters with those names I would wonder if it had been done deliberately. As a PP has said, people do odd things.

Both lovely names, but I too thought of Soham the minute I saw the thread title, so, sorry it's a no from me.

I immediately thought of little Holly and Jessica. However they are both beautiful names and go really well together, and if people do think of the girls it's not like they were the evil ones so it's not a bad thing. You could always use Molly instead.

I really wouldn't worry about your "Ollie" grown-up

I think a boy called "Ollie" is very different to a little sister called "Holly" to go with a sister "Jessica"

Both nice names individually....but not together. I too first thought of Soham.

The first thing I thought of too. I know a Mum with one name who called her daughter the other, though - no one (apart from me) seems to have noticed, but maybe the focus is less on mother/daughter names and more on siblings.

Oh dear. Sorry but I really, really wouldn't.

Marvin, what this thread demonstrates then is that you finding it odd is, well, odd. Almost everyone has posted to say 'Sorry, first thing I thought of.'

The consensus is that people in general are likely to make that connection. I don't know why you consider it odd, but the fact is its not odd, but very common. Which is what the OP wanted to know.

It has nothing to do with feeling affected by the case, even - OP is asking whether due to the murders, these particular names, as a pair, have entered popular culture, so to speak. Seems that they have.