Do you think siblings names need to "go with each other"?

[soon2befamilyof4]

I have never really understood this but I am not very good when it comes to knowing what goes and what doesn't!

My DD is Eloise and we are thinking about naming the next baby (apparently a girl) Talia. The names (to me) do sound a bit funny together but that might be a bit because I am obviously very close to DD so it isn't just a name iyswim?

Anyway, do you think it matters if the names go together or not?

I think they go really well together. Both lovely names.

A friend called her girls Millie and Molly, to me they too similar. And i kid you not, i went to school with a Christina and her older sister was called Christine........

I knew two families whose names didn't gell.

Dh's boss had Deborah and Roxanne. Debbie did complain when she was old enough to realise that she had a boring name and her sister had a pretty name.

Another family with 4 had- in order- Michelle, Jane, Stephanie, and Tom. I always wonder whether the parents each named alternate babies, and whether Jane resented her sisters' prettier names.

Eloise and Talia doesn't sound quite right to me, but I can't put my finger on it. As someone else said, Eloise and Amelie go, as do Eloise and Madeline.

But then it's your choice

Back home, there were lots of families of mixed heritage. So I knew a family with a Pablo, a Juan, and ... Dimitri. One Greek Parent and one Spanish. Other than letting people singing 'one of these things is not like the others' a lot, I can't see how it makes any difference.

My RL name is very English. My brother is called Sven. Ok, Swedish people are weirded out by this, but everyone else seems to cope.

I think it does matter that the names are at least in the same sort of "category/class/bracket" [delete as appropriate]; for e.g. it would seem a little weird to have a Tarquin and a Sharon, or an Antonia and a Wayne. IMO.

And to have names that don't sound silly together (e.g. Sam'n'Ella as malfoy said)

But aside of that, I don't think it matters desperately.

To add to that - I think Talia sounds more Greek or Italian, whereas Eloise seems more French, so maybe that's why they don't quite fit? Perhaps if you went for Natalie instead, it would "go better" with Eloise (or maybe Thandie, or Leonie)

strictmumof3 - if your friend had a DD3, would she call her Mandy?

I personally think "names that go together" is a bizarre concept.