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.

No. Themes are terrible idea.

Yes. I’ve got 2 girls and I was adamant they had to have 2 syllable names, French and one beginning with E and one with A. Same as me and my husband. I had a vision of a square and each corner had to be completely correctly. I’m aware I sound mad.

Mine have middle names that are family names.
One relative annoyingly has two names in a pattern and a third that doesn’t fit the pattern -
Think Tom, dick and then not Harry...

I don’t think people need to have a pattern as such but it’s slightly jarring when a style
Seems apparent and then one name sticks out. Family names should flow...

I loved one name for dc4 that was just a little too out there compared to the others...So we didn’t use it. I do feel a little sad that I won’t ever have a child with the girl name we chose for dc4 though as he was a boy!

Short and easy to spell.

No theme as such but they ‘go’ together. I have 2 girls and their names are short (I didn’t like the idea of nicknames), pretty sounding names with similar sounds in them. It actually wasnt done on purpose though (other than them being short).

Not exactly a theme but after youngest was born and named I realised that if you wrote their names in age order the first letters spell SIN
S (son)
I (daughter)
N (daughter)

All three have short names and all of them have an Irish name and an English name to reflect their heritage.

All biblical, completely by accident

A friend's daughters both have four letter, two syllable names starting with the same letter. Think Mary and Miley. I find it impossible not to say Marley and Mirey.

2 gem stones....unintentionally.... 1 flower and 1 random boys name

Themed names are the naffest thing in the world. Unless the theme is so generic that people don't even notice it (e.g. you could do Bible names: Elizabeth, David and Sarah), steer very clear.

Ours have Irish names. One is typically Gaelic and difficult to spell/read for English people. The other is Gaelic but the name is the same in English (and other languages)

Mine have Greek names (my heritage) and family middle names.