Sibling name 'sets'?

[Kveta]

I know quite a few (at least 2 personally, and 1 set does the voice of George Pig on Peppa Pig :o!) Oliver and Alices, 2 Hugo and Isaacs, and knew a couple of David and Alistairs at school.

I'm now starting to worry that DH and I have chosen a new 'sibling set' of names for our DC, as today we overheard DS's name and DC2's name together a LOT. DC2 is due next month, and we can still change the name we've chosen, obviously, but I just wondered what names you hear together a lot?

I really like that spelling- I think it looks very pretty.
Both are v popular names (which you're now attuned to listen out for) and likely to be attractive to the same people iykwim so you're bound to hear them together a fair bit. But go for it- they wouldn't be so popular if they weren't good names!

Oh I like Zofie!
Zofia (DPs mother's name) is top of my list of girl's names

I think Emilia, Aleksandra and Izabela all go well with Oliver and fit the bill for both the UK and EE (I have had a similar dilemma wrt names to suit)

ah, you see, we can't use Aleksandra, as nephew is Alexander, and can't use Izabela, as we have two friends (with mixed nationality parents - one set are same mix as DH and I!) with DD's called that, and my best friend always said she liked the name Sophie, so I promised I wouldn't use it. Which pretty much guarantees she will never have kids, of course :o

Plus DH hates the names I love (Matylda, Liliana) and I am a bit 'meh' about the names he loves (Alice, Ema), so Emilie is our compromise name.

(now what's the betting that at my growth scan this afternoon they discover baby is actually a boy? :o)

Ooh I'd forgotten about Matylda

Emilie is a lovely name btw

Do you have any boys names in reserve just in case?

yep, he would be Teodor (Teddy) - we agreed on that one ages ago, then found out baby was female, and started wracking our brains and disagreeing on everything :o

Olivia and isabelle two sets
Harry and George three sets

Are you sure that you aren't just tuned in to it now that you have decided on names? Having said that, both names are very popular so it's not unreasonable that you would get them in pairs.

I like Emilie and Zofie

And Teddy

William is my brother's middle name, his first name is Al-something else.

I'd love to have a William, but DH won't name our child after his parents' dog. Not that we're having a baby, but you know how it is.

I agree with blacktea though - you're probably hearing lots of Emilys now because it's your frontrunner. The same thing happened after DD was born, we heard her name everywhere well, 2 or 3 others and since then I haven't heard of a single one.

Maggie and Katie (several)
Sarah and Rachel (loads)
Emma and Grace
Tom and Mike
Anna and Michael
Thomas and Margaret
Sam and Max (several)

How about Theodora?

Kveta Stop worrying

Oliver and sound lovely together and as far as I know aren't 'sib set' names!!!!