Siblings with same first letter

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I have always had a thing about preferring siblings to have names that start with a different first letter to one another. But now we are expecting our second child the only name we both like starts with the same first letter (it is the only thing putting me off the name).

What do other people think, am I making this a bigger issue that it is? My husband doesn’t see an issue with it.

will people think we have deliberately used the same letter?

Nobody will think you've done it deliberately, and if they do just tell them you didn't.
If you like the name go for it!

Kardashians spring to mind. I think its probably tacky but I like it personally. Id probably go as far as for example-

Sarah Smith
Sophie Smith
Sasha Smith
Samuel Smith

but it may be overkill!

It isn’t the same letter as the surname and I will make sure that the middle initials are different

I come from a large family - lots of cousins and nearly all of us seem to have the same initials as our siblings. Think it was a big thing in the 70s! No one bats an eyelid.

Perfectly fine

I did it, for the same reason as you.

It's fine. Until you're trying to shout the right kid to come downstairs and your tongue gets in a knot.

I had friends growing up with siblings:

Dean, Debbie, Dale, Denise

and

Debbie, Dion and Dale.

Not one of them liked it.

I had the same initial as my sister and hated it. I could never label anything with just one letter, even if it never left the house, had to use first and second name initials. I know not a huge issue now but post arriving addressed to my initial and surname but could it be my sister's? I even changed banks so I would know if a letter came from HSBC bank it wasn't mine.

I deliberately chose different starting letters for my children. They each had a wooden letter on their bedroom door to show which room was which when we moved house and they were 6 and 3.

Mail when they get older, who's is who's without opening.

It's fine. Not Kardashianesque unless you have 8 kids all with the same initial and misspell names to make them fit. And how often do kids get post these days?

Fine for kids to be the same.

And it doesn't mean that a third child needs to also have the same initial..
If one is Master X and one is Miss X that too will help keep separate identities for mail.

It’s fine. No one will think anything

It’s fine. My two share a first initial as both names we love. It’s also incredible useful with school uniform , kit ( anything that gets labelled) . I have name labels that say X. Smith - ( not real name) .

You'll be drawn to the name because you want to avoid the initial, or because you like the names.
There are so many names out there, surely there must be others you like. I know several sibsets with names like Sarah and Stephen, Simon and Sarah, Steven and Suzanne, Mark and Michelle, David and Deborah, and it does look a bit matchy matchy.
There's a family I know where the parents are John and Julie, and the children are Julia, John, Joseph and Noah (names changed to avoid outing them) - it looks like they had run out of J names.

About the being drawn to a name, it's reminded me of 3 couples I know who could not think beyond one name for DS2. Two couples already had a William and only liked Benjamin or Edward for DS2, the other couple only liked William but already had a Ben.

Mine have same initial, no one has ever commented. I don't think I even thought about it till DD 2 was a toddler. It was just the names we liked.

Three sibs in my family and there was never a problem with mail etc.
My parents didn’t plan it — just turned out that way.