Curious about how to match siblings names

[MarchNowFebMum]

There's often posts on here about how to pick names that 'match' the older siblings.

I may be dim but I don't get it - what are the rules of matching? Obviously Connie and Bonnie sounds hideous together but I don't get what logic people use to respond to these questions.

This is a serious question - worried I'll make a mistep with dc2!

So after he was born did people keep askin you if he was Arthur or Martha then?

my kids names don't match...i have a scottish one, a classic one and a biblical one. i think they're all fairly common 21st century names which may help but I really don't care!

Michael McIntyre does a bit about this in his DVD, he has 2 sons, Oscar and Lucas, but he said he felt like calling his DS2 Trevor just to see peoples' reactions to Oscar and Trevor!

MargotBG - I am er, blessed, with one of the names you mentioned (spelt dif) and believe me was no fun being called hurricane, force 10, windy etc etc at every turn (made even worse as maiden name is a key component of a very popular nursery name of the day so if it wsn't the former it was the latter - oh joy! Luckily now have nice boring totally unnoteworthy surname thanks to dh!)

I have taught siblings named sam and ella, both lovely names but when you same them together..... Id never even thought of checking how names sound together until I met these two

What about Oscar, Tango and Foxtrot

I love the name Storm. Don't know if it would match Freddie and Dylan. But I think I might just use it for a cat or something.

My aunt has two children with very classic names that go well together, and two with Biblical names that go well together. But the two sets clash a bit.

Is Lydia biblical?

I do agree with the majority that names can sound odd if they're worlds apart aesthetically. I would be very surprised to hear of twins called Octavia and Kadyn, for instance.

Wouldn't care, because it's not my business, but I would be surprised.

I think there is a difference between worlds apart (I agree Octavia and Kadyn would sound odd, as would Anne and Ocean for a set of twins) but I really don't think names need to be, or even should be from the same genre. My son has an Old English name after a great English king, my daughter is called after two great-grannies. Their names sound fine together, and they both love the reasons. The trouble when you go down that matching route is when you have more children and run out of good names, and end up with some odd choices available - like people who start off with say Lily and Rose and then have to find another flower for a third or fourth dd, when really they had just liked Rose and Lily, and not particularly thought about having a bouquet or posy IYSWIM

I decided that (coincidentally) ds1 and ds2 had names that seemed to be aged weather-beaten farmer names so ds3 had to be able to fit into that category (because clearly they're going to end their days tramping over the hills calling sheep )

I think you should just choose the names you really like. My kids have all ended up with Victorian origin names - but to be honest that was pure coincidence rather than us only selecting Victorian names.

I dont think it really matters too much.

We have a Grace and George.. they are almost the same but i love them so i had to have them !

By "matching names", people don't usually mean alliteration or rhyming, but rather names that are in the same socio-cultural register.

Oh I don't know about that BonsoirAnna. I went to school with a set of siblings called Milo, Coco and Rollo.

Those may well be in the same socio-cultural register but the also most certainly rhyme!

I did say "usually" as rhyming names like the ones you cite are quite unusual IME!

Crikey, though!

I have friends who have an Alexander and Olivia and their third is Lola! IMVHO Lola just doesnt go with the other names.

My boy names go together though one is Biblical and the other isnt. Both have different syllables but sound fine together.

Names that go would be (IMVHO)

Grace and Ruby

Jack and Emily

Shayla and Skye

Memphis and Skylar

Names that dont go would be

Liam and Alfie

Matthew and Harrison

Thomas and Tegan

My Mum got herself into a pickle because she decided that all of our first names should end in AH and our middle names should begin with a C!

By the time she got to DD3, the names necessarily had to get more unusual.

My sister still gets a bit sulky when me and sister2 can find our names in seaside rock etc and she can't.... Used to cause tears when we were little!!

Sarah, Hannah, Leah? Those all go together quite well.

Caroline, Camilla, Cordelia?

Another pair of brothers I went to school with were Michael and Rafael. I always wondered if the 'ael' endings were deliberate and what a 3rd sibling might have been called if there were one.

ha.HA.

I used to know a Jason whose older brother was called Tarquin.

Fine as a pair, all very classical, Jason & the Argonauts etc.

Didn't combine so well by the mid 80s.

But why do they need to go together? They won't be living together for most of their lives (hopefully).

I have 2 ds's, both have biblical names, one old testement, the other new testement. The only thing I don't like is it sounds better saying ds2 and ds1 rather than ds1 and ds2 iyswim. Ds1's name has 2 syllables and ds2's has one.

I have also just remembered siblings at a friend's school, surname Austen who were called Maurice and Jane