Is there a theme to your children's names?

[CourtneyLurve]

Just that. Have you gone with a specific theme when naming your kids? Same letter? Nature themed? Biblical? Curious if that's something most people consider.

All my kids bar one have surnes as first names.I didn't do it delibrate.Its just I really liked those names.

Long with short nicknames is the theme in our house. We have a one syllable surname. Dd1 is 4-4 syllables dd2 is 3-3. Each with 2 sylabble day to day nicknames eg Rosie

No theme as such, but very aware that with giving DS1 such an unusual name it couldn't be followed with a sibling called Emily or Thomas.

Our DC have/will have noun based names, opposed to typical forenames but again I'm obviously aware that these aren't for everybody

Not with first names, but they both have names linked to Elizabeth in their (well dd2s first and middle name are both linked)

Isobel and Lillian. Not an obvious link

Our first 2 have unusual old testament names and nature middle names so there is a theme but wasn't intentional!

I think we'll be breaking the mold with baby no.3 though ;)

My 3 turned out to have 5 letter, 2 syllable names. Unintentional for the first two but impacted my naming of the third.

Start with same letter and sound similar. E.g. Christopher and Crystal (not their names!)

Agonized over DC2 but the only other name we liked had become a fad. So I have cringey matchy names for my kids if you say them together.

I figure it won't matter as they will have their own friends and lives

We have 4 DSs. They all have Celtic names (DH is Scottish) and they're all short: 4 or 5 letters, which is handy when I write our Christmas cards

Mine have Irish first names.

Unintentionally, both are two syllables and start with a vowel. DH has pointed out we have one named the same as a famous scientist and one is a mythological character so next time he wants a famous artist!

Middle names are after female relatives who meant a lot to us... (And coincidentally, they made sense for both families, helped by my dad having about 20 Aunts).

No obvious link between the first names, unless 'names we like' is a theme! Although DD born in Germany has a Scottish name that is unpronounceable in many European countries, and our English born child has a name that travels well.

@CourtneyLurve my twin boys both have biblical names, I’m naturally attracted to Hebrew boys names. My little girl I guess has a variation of a virtue name which is vintagey, retro and feminine, so not quite the same stylistically but I feel they sit together nicely. Sometimes I think it’s more about how things sound together, I.e not jarring, than necessarily having exactly the same root source or The exact same style. That much is definitely something I considered when choosing, how they would sit together, Christmas cards etc, but I didn’t want to be bound by a rigid ‘theme’ as I feel that way they can become lost Individually and it all becomes contrived.

My two girls are named after my two grandmothers (the older one changed slightly to the Irish spelling as her dads Irish and was pushing for an Irish name) and I love it, it made them both very happy and they're beautiful names that mean something to all of us. Will make it tricky naming number 3 though as DH's grandmother is called Bertha which I just couldn't do to a child

Yes.... Easy to spell and pronounce so they won't have the misery of a life with a name like mine!

Mine are also Biblical

One more thing, I used only names that I like every contraction of- as I've seen so many people give their kids a name and then be horribly offended if someone uses a contraction or even fight with their child when they're older and they choose that version.

All Hebrew names with 4 letters.

Not an intentional theme but both my boys have names that are predominantly first names but can also be surnames, and are both names of Scottish clans.

Ours are botanical themed :)

Mine are from two different ‘themes’ - one gem stone and one nature. It’s making naming baby 3 quite a challenge aha.

Yes. Names we liked.

Wanted names that are straightforward to pronounce. They are English names and one is much more popular than the other one.

Mine are unshortenable. No natural nickname, makes more sense to use the full name.

Peaky Blinders themed by compete accident.

Mine have Welsh names. DH is Welsh and we live in Wales. I'm English.