Do your children's names match?

[twofurryones]

I came across sisters called Eve and Hannah the other day and thought that was quite a novel approach to matching sibling names.

Anyway with DC2 on the way it got me thinking about the influence of DS's name on the name for the new one. How much consideration do you think needs to be making your children sound like they are related?

I quite like the idea of being able to spell something with all the first and middle name initials in the family.

Psammead I'm not sure you'd be allowed to call a child Bollocks.

Happy wheezer are they the baby jake family?!

The title of the thread inevitably drew me in, I have cousins who are three siblings and their names all start with T.

I am one of four (three brothers and me....) the boys names all start with a j and mine is Gemma. When meeting friends who ask about how my brothers are it is only the people that have met all the brothers that can follow who has been up to what! Bloomin complex!

Oh god, and I often forget, my Mum's name is Janet and my dad is Geoff

Being able to spell something with initials... hmm...

So far we have HLLRV. Can I have a vowel please, Carol?

I always used to think it was odd if one sibling had a simple name next to a very fancy one - eg John and Theodore, or Sarah and Felicity, but hey, if that's what the parents liked...if there was a large gap between them, though, I'd be suspicious that the parents had gone for classic, simple names with older children & then decided to be more frivolous/trendy/faddy with their younger child.

I know a pair of twins where one is called Charlotte (very classic, literary, costume drama name) & the other has a very 80's name, the sort that makes me think of shoulder pads, big yachts and Dynasty.

Those 2 names really don't match, to me, but I suppose avoiding matchy-matchy names is a good strategy with twins, if you want to make sure they are treated as individuals & don't get mistaken for each other all the time.

Nope, have never understood why people go to such lengths to make their names match. I like my kids to be individuals, not one of a pair. Plus most of their life they will not be living with their sibling.

If I call DC2 something beginning with E and ignore DH and middle names, I will actually be able to spell my own name, or is that a little egocentric

Ottillie Emily then you could have HOLLER (you'll have to disown the owner of the V - small price to pay, added bonus is you get to have a rhyming first name, middle name combo)

But the owner of the V is ME! [grumpy]

Mine, X-DP and DS' nn all rhyme.

Was not in the slighest intentional, obviously as X-DP and I aren't related, and because DS nn is not the conventional one for his name - or the one I'd chose if it was my choice!

I do know a Samantha and Eleanor - they get called Sam and Ella!

My name matches DB's, and also rhymes with DP's. I HATE matching names! One of the names we like for a potential DD2 sounds good if both DD's are called by their nn's but would sound terrible if you called them both by their full names.

But I agree that a River and a Kevin would sound slightly silly...

Sort of. DD is Bridget and DS is Cormac, so both are Irish names. Not intentionally, but they do seem to match a little bit. My sister and I both have French names, but no-ones ever remarked on our 'matching' names, so I think we'll be fine. Mind you if I can convince DH to have DC3 neither of the names I have in mind are Irish

Mine our completely different. Dd1's name is French, dd2's name is Scottish, dd3's name is very English (middle names included). However, Dd2's nickname and dd3's nickname are almost identical - not intended as dd3's nickname is totally unrelated to her real name.

DD2s name will be very similar to DD1. I didn't intentionally choose matchy names and don't understand why people veto some names because they don't match. It just happens that there is only one girl's name in existence that me and oh agree on.

Thinking of very unmatchy names, know a set of siblings called Michael, Vaughn and Mercedes! All have the same mum and dad too and Mercedes is the middle child so not like their tastes changed either!

There's a woman at toddler group with 2 boys called Jayden and Harry.

Ohh someone I know called her children Troy and Roy!

Just realised my kids initials could spell minj

I know brothers called Tom and Tim
My DS has a scottish name, and I would like another Scottish/Celtic name for this one.
I'm not a fan of names all starting with same letter for some reason, I know of 2 families where the 3 children all have names starting with the same letter as the dad.

I have 3dds and their first names all end in the same letter , it wasn't intentional. After I had picked dd2s name, my mum said "oh it ends in a as well", I was too sore happy to really think about it.

When I had dd3 the name we loved also ended in A and I wasn't sure but then thought "oh catch yourself on, who's going to care about your childrens names so much" (wasn't on MN as much then ) Ps dd3s name is a palindrome as well.

Both my dc end in an ee sound. I liked both of their names, regret the similarity now though.

Yea ellan, I know a family with 6 kids and all their names start with 'C'! I think it must get a bit tricky when the immunisations appointment comes through the letterbox as they only ever have the initial with surname on the envelope.

Two furry ones - the Jen and Ben story reminds me of my partner's siblings. His brother is Dan, sister is Jan and younger sister Jen. To top things off Jan has married a Jon, and Jen a Ken! We're just waiting for Dan to find a Fran.

Both my DC have names that end in the same sound, they were the only 2 names we were ever going to agree on but I spent ages dithering about it.

No regrets but I have had a few people do faces at me. They won't spend the rest of their lives being introduced together so this isn't too much of an issue.

They also fail to 'match' in the approved by mumsnet sense (different types) so I've failed on every count there!

I don't mean to offend anyone whose children have names starting in same letter by the way, i just wouldn't choose it myself. Names ending in same letter aren't as obvious a link to me. It was the name choosing criteria for family members of mine, and they don't sound too matchy, as they are both Italian girls names, which often end in a.