Families with the same names as your children

[mistyautumnmorning]

We met a family at the weekend with the same names as our children, which I thought was quite unusual!

They don’t have obscure names; top 100 for the years they were born but quite low down so DS’s name was 60 something and DDs was 95! Has this happened to anyone else?

I once overheard a woman in the supermarket who's eldest had the same name as my eldest, and who's youngest had the same name I was going to use if my youngest was a boy. Both names are in the 400-500s in the UK.

I had to stop her to tell her - she didn't seem to think it was particularly interesting and probably thought I was a weirdo! 🤣

When I named my kids their names were quite unusual.

As they've grown up we've met loads of them!

If it's all your kids names it's unusual but also likely given you've already proven to have some similar tastes.

Personally I'd be astounded and dumbfounded if it happened to us, but then none of my kids have sensible names 🤣

Long and complicated family history - too long to explain really, but I met my half sister when I was in my 30s she had 3 kids, I had 4, her 3 had the same first names as my oldest 3. Not unusual names or anything, but I thought it was pretty weird.

I think there were 2 pairs of brothers in our neighbourhood (2 streets apart) with matching names.
One if the names was quite unusual (Rudy) the other name a bit more popular. But still surprised me.

Of course that's likely to happen if you choose a fashionable top 10 name. Others will likely follow suit and like the same names.

Much less likely if you give your children less popular names outside the top 100

Our Daughters have unusual (not in the top 100) names and we once came across a lady who had 2 dogs with the same names 😂. The kids thought it was hilarious!

I've never come across siblings with the same names as my 2 DC (DD's name is a top 30 name but DS's is less common but probably still in top 100)

I can only think of 2 families that I know who have the exact same combo of DC names (James & Charlotte)

I have come across three families with more-or-less the same names as my two:

Alexander and Lucy-Jane
Alex and Lucy
Alexander (Alex) and Lucy
Alexander (Zander) and Lucinda (Lucy)

I know three sets of Matthew and Jonathan.

There were two Emmas in my class at school with brothers called Ben in the class below us.

I know two families locally with daughters Bella & Amelia.

After we named our twin boys, the health visitor told us that there was another set of twins in our small town with the same names, about four years older. HV told her, and the mother came round to visit with her two, brought a couple of little presents and lent us a double buggy till we bought our own. She was lovely, with excellent taste in names!

My son has a very unusual name in the UK, have never met one other in 16 years. It's a bit more common in the US. We took him to Disney World Florida on half term when he was turning 3. On the day of his actual third birthday we got talking to the family behind also with a boy in a pushchair as they both had Happy Birtbday badges and balloons. Their son was also three that day and called the same name as my son! So both botn on same day, sale year with same very unusual name!

Also both had an older brother with the same less unuusal but still not common, name. They only had 2 kids whereas we had 3 though.

Felt a bit 'glitch in the matrix!'

My name was big in the 70s but dropped through the floor now (about 30 a year). DD's name hovers in and out of the top 100. When she was a baby we met another toddler with my name and her mum had DD's name which was a nice coincidence.

Rarely meet anyone with DS2's name, but we've met several sets of brothers with first names that are DS1s first name and middle name.

I’ve never had this. DS’s name is around 500 popularity and DS around 200. They’re also very different styles of name (one traditional one more surname/US type) so I’d be really shocked if someone else had chosen the combination but it’d be cool to meet them if they had.

A boy is DS's class at primary school was called eg: George Oliver, ds is called Oliver George. Both bits have sisters with the same name, albeit different spellings.

Over the years I have noticed that certain babes often go together in siblings; Tom, Ben, Sam, Amy and I know/know off a few sets each of Henry & Freya; Chris and Jo(e); Alice & Jessica; Adam & James.

You have DS’s name up there with the name we would have chosen if DD was another boy