Do sibling names need to "match"?

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I posted a thead about Corinne, which is currently top of our list for baby 4. Our other children have unusual ish edwardian names (think Agnes, Ernest, Edith, Mabel etc). Would Corinne stick out too much or does it really not matter?

My head says it doesn't matter but saying them all together, Corinne sounds a bit odd with the others.

I really don't think they need to match. My dds have Irish names, while ds has a biblical name. Surely you owe it to your dc to pick the perfect name for them to carry through life rather than the one that sounds best to go with their siblings.

I don't think Corinne sounds particularly out-of-place with your other DC's names, OP.

No.

They only rarely get called in the same breath. And that's only until the first leaves home anyway. They've got another seventy years after that! Pick the best name not the match name.

Your name and your partner's name are more likely to be said together than you and a sibling. You wouldn't not date someone because you were Persephone and he was Dave right?

To a point, yes. For example to have a Josephine and a Kourtnee would just sound daft.

Would Kourtnee sound any less daft with a sister called Stephonknee? No.

I know four brothers called Castiel, Raphael, Andrew and Sean. Doesn't matter a bit but I did notice and wonder about the thought process there.

Nope. They will spend the first 12 years not realising. The next 10 wishing they didn't and the next however many not caring.

Yours are fine. All lovely names.

My two match - not in a rhyming sense but in a Henry, Samuel sense. Not real names of mine.

My name is pretty unusual, my brothers is top 10 for his generation. My parents said you could be more original with girls names. I think your combinations sound fine.

Corinne does match the others imo.

TBH honest Leonard was the one that stood out as i know one shortened to Leo - which is far more different than Corrine.

Connie works well with it too:

I think it sounds fine with the names you've given.

To a degree.

It'd be weird to have an Arabella and a Britney. Or a Selah and a Charlotte.

But if Mabel, Leonard and Hester are your children, I think Corinne is fine. The other three are all unusual enough.

Corinne was popular in the same era as your other DC names, so it goes anyway. I can't find UK data from the relevant years, but in the US it peaked in the 1890s. www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=corinne

Lovely names.

They'll spend most of their life as adults and away from the family home. (hopefully).

Choose what you like. It's short sighted to choose names that match your older a dc's names.

I think you should just chose your favourite names and that it's silly to worry if the match or not. I wouldn't chose names that sound silly together but other than that I don't think you should consider siblings names.

FWIW Corinne doesn't sound odd with your other DCs names.

Oh my god no just name your children what the hell you like!
Seriously it doesn't matter wether the names match what ever the actual fuck that means.

I know a Jack, William, and Zephyr. Everyone was all 'huh? Zephyr?'

No they don't need to match. Kids with matching initials is the naffest thing ever but being a Zephyr in a family of Jacks and Williams can also be a bit strange

I don't actually think Corinne is all that much of a mismatch with those siblings. They're all a but unusual, but not weird or "made-up", and they all have 2 syllables. I can picture a 30s lady in a sort of Agatha Christie-esque costume called Corinne, which is the same sort of vibe I get off the others too. From a more glamorous age.

For what it's worth, I don't think sibling names need to match perfectly in terms of origin or style, but the one rule I always felt would be fairer to all the children is for them all to be about the same length and either all shortenable or all not shortenable. I could imagine a stroppy teenager being very disgruntled that their name was either not as long as their sibling's, or too long (and they thought it sounded pretentious) compared to their sibling's, or it wasn't fair that they did/didn't have a good shortening. Oddly enough I failed to follow that rule for my own DC, but they don't seem to mind too much.

No, I don't think they do.
I think the whole matching thing is about trying to look like you have a perfect , advert life.
Corrine is s beautiful name

I agree with lemondrop. You’re only a unit with your siblings whilst you’re living together. I think go with what you love.

We have x 2 DC with same first initial so occasionally got letters in their teens / student years addressed to “Mr B. Holdthewine” with no middle initial so we had to give it to one and they worked it out.

It doesn’t matter!

I had a boyfriend for a long time called James who eventually married a girl called Jemma. His other family members were Janet, Julian, Jane (who married Jonathan) and... Nick. I always wondered whether they didn't like Nick very much .

That's hilarious lorelai!

I think Corinne goes fine with your other children's names which are really cool by the way.

Thank you, Yika. We love their names so finding something we live as much is proving hard!

I have an Amelia, a Stanley and a Leonard (good choice!) and I must admit I was conscious that the names 'went together' when choosing them. Next baby will be something like Sidney, Albert, Josephine or Helen (Nell) rather than Riley, Blue, Luna, Kasey etc