Sisters' names: how do these sound together?

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Namechanged for this, for added anonymity and because I usually think superior thoughts about needing to ask other peoples' opinions on baby name choices, but I'm now swallowing my pride!

So dd1 is called Louisa, and we always call her Lulu for short and we think we like Sylvie for dd2, due in June. But what about Lulu and Sylvie as a pair of names? Are the repaeted vowels too much? Oo-oo and Ee-ee?

Am I overthinking it?

repeated, I mean!

Yes

I think you're overthinking it

Both lovely names and sound fine together imho

Thanks TSM - any other opinions?

I like them. I don't get why childrens names have to match anyway.

Surely it would only be an issue if you plan of having a Anastasia and a Sally?

Sylvie is gorgeous.. My rumbunctious podgy-pawed, curly-haired son was to have been Sylvia Nina or Sylvia Pearl (with Sylvie for short).

So clearly I like it. I like Louisa a lot too. Lulu and Sylvie are lovely.

ps, why ashamed to be posting on baby names!

Better to post here than to find out when child is 6 months old that actually, chosen name is on the up (or, sounds like Sunday Roast).

I love both names and they go together just fine.

You're over-thinking it. They go very well together. Both names are unusual but not "out there" unusual!

Margotbeauregarde: I think you and I have the same taste...I love Nina too, but we know a Nina. And I love Margot, but it's too much like our last name.

I always research v thoroughly on Bounty to check that my names are not too high on the popularity list!

Thanks for all these thoughts. Regarding names "matching": it's rather the opposite that I was worried about, that they match too much and it would sound silly.

It won't matter when they're adults, but for now, when people ask about my children, I don't want to feel silly saying Lulu and Sylvie in the same breath.

I like names to be in the same style. eg, Juliet and Beatrix, Ruby and Chloe, or Shelby and Bailey.

Juliet and Bailey would sound like half-sisters, or one parent had chosen one name and the other parent the other name in one of those 'deals' that couples sometimes make!

Or, perhaps as though the parents had named their children in a hurry, on different mind altering drugs each time.

I dislike names that are too similar though. I heard of a Cora and a Lara and though no, no, no. too much ra ra ra.

i think they go lovely together and you're over thinking lol

i dunno whats wrong with you.....its great fun posting in baby names.....you are seriously overthinking things IMO....they sound fine.

Louisa and Sylvie sounds lovely together.

lovely names, fine together.

Ooh, thank you! I almost missed those last few comments. Any dissenters out there? I'm almost waiting for someone to come along and say "Ugh! No!"

Damn! Forgot to name change!

Lovely together. Both lovely names.