Two siblings with the same initial?

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Just asking you guys to humour me here as I'm only four weeks pregnant so obvs no idea what we are having! We already have a daughter with a name beginning with M, DH and I were discussing potential girl names today and we both really like one that also begins with M. Is it weird to have two siblings with the same initial? It's Margaret/Maggie we are thinking of. Current daughter has similar 'old lady' name which we shorten in a similar way.

My 2 kids have names starting with the same letter. 3 out of my 5 siblings start with the letter S

It’s awful. I knew someone at school with the same initial as her brother.

Why is it awful? I wasn't bothered about having the same initial as 2 of my siblings

I don't think it matters. They're not going to live together their whole lives.

I have the same initials as my brother has no impact on my life at all, ever.

I have a friend the husband is an an M. All the kids are also M’s. I felt it was rather self obsessed of him. The wife is a B.

I have the same initial as my sibling and I can’t say I’ve ever thought of it being an issue. When growing up perhaps the odd letter that was addressed ‘initial surname’ caused a few seconds confusion but certainly not enough to not use a name you love!

My siblings have the same first initial and have opened each other’s post when they were both still at home, so I wouldn’t give the same initial names.

So long as you and DH are not Mary and Matt it's OK. Although if you go on to have a third child and have run out of M names they will look a bit of an afterthought. Would both shortened (presumably used most/all of the time at home) versions begin with M?

My niece and nephew have the same initial (by chance more than any plan) and it's no issue. Their names just suit them individually and that's that.

My DH and his sister have the same initial, I think it's a bit Topsy and Tim. My parents share an initial so, for reasons of 'postal confusion' deliberately gave me and DSis first names which started with different letters, but we both have middle names which start with their initial.

There was a huge family in our village where we grew up and not only did their surname begin with J but 9 out of 10 of the kids first names began with J ... the obviously ran out of names when they got to the last one as she has a different initial.

Growing up, my family of 4 all share the same initial - Andrew, Alice, Alex, Annabelle.

My DM and her siblings all had same initial (Alice, Anne, Adam).

I then married an Alex.

Caused/s havoc with post, but otherwise no problem. But our DC do NOT have names starting with A.

I think it's absolutely fine! I keep thinking of school friends who had the same initials as each other and I hadn't even realised at the time anyway

The kardashians? 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

My youngest two (of four) share an initial. They both use shortenings that change that letter to different ones though (think Alexander and Amelia changing to Xander and Millie, but not). It’s never bothered them, they haven’t even noticed, it’s never caused an issue with mail as they are a boy and a girl.

If you like the name, go for it. If you have a third don’t feel you need to do it again though, then it becomes knobby

Not strange at all. If you like the name and if it does come out a girl, go for it.

If it helps at all ny dad's parents had 11 children all the girls (bar the elder 2),start C, the boys (bar the youngest) M. I think you run out of names when you have that many? Plus being Catholic they're all named after Saints.
And as it happens, one of my aunts has named all 4 of her children with R.

I think it’s hardly noticeable with two children ( unless they ‘go’ together like Jack and Jill ) I’d only really notice if there were 3 or more children and even then I’d think it was their business not mine.

We have two with the same initial. They're both still really little and some people say 'oh that's cute', but I don't think it will be an issue when they're older, and definitely isn't why we did it. DD's name was the only girl's name we both liked, and DS's was a family name we were always going to use.

DH and DSIL names start with same letter.

DBIL1 & DBIL2 names also start with the same letter (but not the same one as DH and DSIL).

All four of their names end in the same phonetic sound (so they kind of rhyme).

MIL swears blind it wasn't intentional and just coincidence that those were the names she liked at the time.

I've found it really annoying having the same initial as my brother - we've opened each other's post loads of times!

If the names are at all similar sounding either in proper form or as nn I'd steer clear. It's a bit tacky.

As it's such early days yet try to avoid names with the same initial.

Not an issue at all. It starts to become odd in my mind when there are 3 starting with the same letter.

Why not? Just don't have 3 with the same initial.
I like Margot as a NN for Margaret btw.

Two is fine; it’s only 3+ when it becomes a pattern (unless the parents have the same initial, too).

Margaret is a lovely name btw. Congratulations!