Thoughts on siblings with the same 1st initial

[HJL2506]

I don't usually like to see same initials in siblings. My sons name begins with "S" and I'm expecting another boy in October and the name my husband and I love begins with "S" again.

This is purely a coincidence. Their middle names will be completely different letters, so in the future when they get mail this shouldn't be a problem. Do you think it's ok? I don't want to find another name purely because I'm slightly put off by the same initial.

Teenagers used to get a lot of post.

Thank goodness the internet was invented to eradicate that bizarre problem of opening each other’s bank statements

That's true.

If I had a sibling win the same initial as me they would soon give me my bank statements back lol!!

Does make things trickier unnecessarily. It's hard enough that my DH has initials PA and son is AP. Things get mixed up.

(DD had a friend Sara whose sisters were called Zara and Zahara. We were never sure which one the mum was talking about !)

I think 2 siblings (not twins) with same initial is absolutely fine, and could just be a coincidence.

3+ starts to look deliberate and I don't like it.

Me and my 3 sibling have different initials and we get called each others names by our Mum constantly.. So I don't think it's an initial problem!

Sara, Zara and Zahara! Wow.. That is a tongue twister!

I have the same initial as my (different gender) sibling, and even then I never really liked it, and yes, people did comment on it. Then my parents had my youngest sibling, whose name started with a completely different letter to ours, and so broke the pattern. People commented on that as well...

That said, as long as the names are sufficiently different then fair enough. However I have a sneaking suspicion that you're the same poster who previously talked about having a Sidney and a Stanley. If that's you, then yeah, sorry, they're much too similar in my opinion. Ellis would be better.

Online shopping means that people get loads of post.

Having the same initial as my DH means we never know who anything is for.

Teens may not have letters from pen pals any more but they’re loads of stuff from Amazon.