Rhyming names…

[Jojow21]

Hi all,
Trying to name our little girl due in the new year. My husband and I had agreed a name for her but he’s now gone off it (partly because my cousin who we very rarely see has a little girl with a similar name - not the same name…) He wants to go back to the girl name we had for our first, who ended up being a boy so we didn’t use it. I of course still love this name and has sentimental meaning to both my husband and I but… it rhymes with our sons name and this is my sticking point…!
Is it terrible? I don’t want to use the names in this post but they don’t look the same written down , are different lengths and they only share one letter. So it’s like, Ollie and Poppy, or Gary (if there are any baby Gary’s out there… it’s hard to think of examples!) and Hallie, with vowel sounds and ending rhyming, but different first initial and all other letters bar the vowel.
Im on the fence. Love the name but not sure if it’s too twee.

IMO Gary and Hallie, Ollie and Poppy don’t rhyme. If we’re talking Martha and Arthur then that’s a huge no in my accent (rhotic accents it’s a bit more of a difference in pronunciation but to me, Martha is just Arthur with an M on the front).

I think it doesn’t sound like a problem. I know lots of siblings with similar names anyway (Maddie and Maggie, Harriet and Henry etc)

It’s the similar sound I guess, and I was told rhyming was the vowel and ending matching. I might be overthinking. It’s so hard! I thought girl names were easier but so many are ruled out by having close friends and family with names we like!

Realise Harry would be a more obvious choice to pair with Tallie for an example… not sure why I went to Gary!!! 😂

Milly and Billy would be too naff, but Ollie and Poppy are perfectly fine.

Agree, Ollie and Poppy (or similar) is totally fine. Doesn't rhyme. Freddie and Hedy? Not so great.

Harry and Tallie is probably the closer example. But sounds like I’m being silly and should go with it if it’s what we like (and I can’t convince hubby to go back to previously agreed name)

It is hard without the real names! But the examples you've given are totally fine

If it was Ben and Wren or something that actually rhymes that's different

Without the actual names it is hard to say.
I mean I wouldn't aim to call siblings
Millie and Bille / Kenny, Jenny, Benny, Penny and Lenny, but even with actual rhyming names I still think you could get away with most of them for just 2, as presumably they would be Kenneth, Jennifer, Penelope, Leonard ?

Yours don't sound as if they even do rhyme.

Oh there will be no more than 2! Just don’t want to use the names as I have a few friends active on here and I’m paranoid they’ll find out! Don’t like friends and family knowing the name before baby is born and we confirm/announce as I think it can lead to pressure to change it/ other “suggestions” which clearly imply people don’t like it!

Three of my cousins used the same first name for a child. 2 of them have the same surname. It's a popular first name and surname (something like Jack Smith)

Two other cousins used the same first name, and the 2 children were in the same school year - the only two with that name. Different surname and middle name. It's not a popular name so it looked like copying.

Two other cousins (brothers) used rhyming but unusual names for their DC. Not many noticed until the young cousins joined the same company. (Something like Holly Smith and Molly Smith)

In the extended family, there are two couples called Andrew and Sarah.

**All the names are substitutes for the actual names