“Perfect” sibling name combinations?

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I seem to remember reading an article once where a woman said the “perfect” sibling names should all start with different letters and end in different sounds. i.e Rory and Sean would “work” but Rory and Henry or Rory and Rowan wouldn’t. Thoughts?

Thoughts?

That it's completely weird to even consider this.

Shes full of bullshit.

You could easily have similar names sounding good together

Sean and Simon
Rory and ruth/rebecca/roisin
Davin and dearbhla
Robert and roisin
Charlie and clara

I know who that was. I’ll find the article up.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nowtolove.com.au/amp/parenting/family/are-these-the-best-named-babies-in-australia-16865

Bizarrely I read a magazineast night with a family who had very matching names..

Sage
Pepper
Parsley
I bloody kid you not!!

Ooh my children have a perfect combination then

So basically, sibling names should have no similarities at all, apart from maybe s bit of overlap in the middle. Tosh. Those rules would allow Jonathan and Nathaniel which sounds repetitive, but would exclude Alice and Ambrose. I’ve know sibs called Alice and Ambrose for several decades and have always thought it was a great combo.

Never trust the judgement of someone who uses the word ‘snazzy’.

Yes!! Thank you! I remembered one of their names being Otto but that was all I had to go by 😂

yes i read that sage parsley etc i thought she was having a right laugh god alone knows what she would call another child mint? dill? oregano?

I agree BikeRunSki! I think many names can sound great together because they’re similar. Parsley is an absolutely terrible name 😂😫

I have two sisters and all our names end in the same “ee” sound which made for a good rhythm when listing off our names 😂 As a personal preference I would probably try not to give my children names with the same initial as I think it’s quite nice having different ones (we all had our letters on our doors!) and also avoids any confusion over unspecified post 😂

Dill with mn do!!

Well I get this. My children's named both have 3 syllables, both about the same popularity, neither peaked or troughed and they both sound fairly traditional.

That was what I wanted. Others on mumsnet have rubbished the idea of sibling names going together but i really like that my kids' names go

This is one of the most bonkers things I have ever read.

She missed that they need to be in alphabetical-chronological order and also all begin with either all vowels or all consonants 🙄.

Personally I prefer to call all my children Bob.

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob.

alphabetical-chronological order me and my siblings are. The eldest /A was not deliberate, but the last child of us 4, was definitely going to be a Z!

In our family& in laws we have Heather, Iris, Melissa, Rosemary (Rose), Violet & Iris

Personal preference at the end of the day you go for what you love not what anyone els thinks, I happen to agree it does get a little confusing when they all begin with the same letter though...

My siblings' and my names all go - my mother was told several times what a good set she'd made. So I had it reinforced and also have children with names that I consider to be a perfect sibset, something that gets commented on a bit.

I know someone with 8 kids who have names all starting in the same letter, not something I would do but each to their own

The ‘rule’ I worked to was having one more or less syllables compared to surname. So 2 and 3 for example. Our children’s names each include some of he sounds of our surname (not same first letter) which I think helps them sound like they ‘match’. And coincidentally they meet OP’s rule too. I would never give same initial as siblings or parents to avoid post mix-ups.

I think they have lovely balanced names but of course I’m biased.

Jamie Oliver's daughters have matchy matchy names - Daisy, Poppy, Blossom or similar, I seem to recall.

My 4 children are "perfect" according to the OP. I never gave it a thought really - just didn't want the same initial.

My 3 siblings and I would fail here.

We all have a different initial but 3 of us end in y/ee sound.

My kids however, are a perfect sibset according to the OP :o

She would love my choices then as they fit with her rules. I think it’s a load of old rubbish though!

There is something in this! You often see sib sets with similar names I thin Daniel and Emma was quite popular when I was growing up Laura and Adam is another one I've heard a few times so there must be something in children's names sounding good together!