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!

I have a friend with a DD called Florence - she is expecting another DD and I suggested Siena but not sure she agrees

i think freddie and dylan are great names and don't understand the clash thing with them?
Teguela - that is horrific never heard of it before
my pet hate is people who name their children with the same initials
i think it's twee and unoriginal - sorry!

I know a real life Martha and Arthur! Married though, so not quite the same as siblings of course.

Their DDs are called Nora (c.15 years old) and Djuna (c.13 years old). American. Match as both pretty unusual?

I wouldn't say that my siblings names "go" that well stylistically (well maybe the first three) but they begin with A and end in Z. And after 34 years they seem like the most normal set of names in the world.

I am quite interested in all this so far and agree that its good if there is a match. What boys or girls names go with Harry?

OK mamaspice - I think most classic English type names go with Harry but I would avoid Tom and Dick . Possibly might also avoid William unless you want people to think you have a Royal fixation. Other than that for boys Freddie, James, Jake, Archie, Felix etc etc for girls Flora, Alice, Mathilda. I might avoid Lucy, Molly and other names ending in 'y' to avoid tweeness but they could still work.

Hey! We have a Harry and a Thomas. And a ds3 . He's not called Richard.

Sorry

I really like the name Thomas and think its fine hannahsaunt but it did run through my head tom..... also dear friends ds is called Thomas - v. annoying when friends call their children names you like. LOL but that is probably a different thread altogether. Thanks for ideas LuLuBai because I am finding this naming business tricky. Will def avoid William hee hee.

I've met two mum's recently with sons called Thomas & Dylan.... I think its great and makes it really easy for me to remember! (smile)

I was going to call Dylan 'Dylan Thomas', but when I suggested it DH laughed. There is a poet called that, but more embarassingly I studied his work in my GCSE's. So he is Dylan George.

Have ridiculously long thin garden. So wanted names I could easily shout; Dd name starts with same consonant that ds name ends with.

We have a Dylan and a nephew called Thomas who is 9 months older. raised a few eyebrows whilst holidaying in Walers last year when we were shouting 'Dylan, Thomas!'

I have Alex, Caleb and Dylan. I think they all go well together despite caleb being unusual.

I think if you say siblingsnames together often enough, then they then naturally go together. And people generally like a certain kind of name ie, I would never choose Savannah/Chardonnay for a girl.

In Walers!!

I live miles away from my sister, so matching or non so names, no longer an issue. If they don't sound great together, it doesn't matter. They could choose a terribly matched partner name (sur or fore) in adulthood.

I named DD1 after DH's gran and DD2 after DH's great aunt (ie his gran's sister). There are three more sisters to go through if necessary but the two we have are both Dicken's characters too, so we could go go there

How about Sertraline for a girl and Prozac for a boy?

We have a Bert and an Ernie.

They seem to go together quite well.

When we picked our girls names. Abigail was very last minute but we always thought of what it could/maybe shortened to, hence we call her Abi, which we love. The other half liked Amelea potentially for our second but I was thinking two with the same intials. Nightmare when they start getting post!! Weird I know. So we went for Bonnie our other option and Amelea as a middle name. Go for names you like and dont worry about matching.

I knew a couple where the dad was from Syria and the mum was Norwegian. One child had an arabic name, the other a traditional Scandinavian name. They didn't seem to go together but they did if you knew the family background.

Haha, I love this thread. I have a dd and had a name in mind if I ever get a ds - but having read all of this I think it would be out on a socio-cultural AND sounding basis. I still like the names, though!

My dd's names go well together one starts with a K and the other with a C (pronounced like a k) which means that although they go well together I spend half my time called the wrong child by the wrong name as they start with the same sound.

There are twins in my family called Sam and Pam, I think they're in their 40's now.

Mine and my sisters names are all English and Iranian names, and Mum is English and Dad is Iranian. My sisters names are Tina and Dana, I got stuck with the commonly more British Nikki

I went with Charlotte for DD1, then had DTs both girls! Went for Elizabeth and Alexandra, following a quite unintentional english regal theme! Thinking of having a go for a fourth and have been trawling lists to find another regal female name we like, just in case! Boys names were all picked out and ready to go, but no joy so far!
Don't feel you have to theme, go with whatever you think is best, and that you like, they are your children after all!

Squirdle - I have a Caleb too! And I love it because it is unusual but at the same time it's really old and it's not silly unusual, if you know what I mean.

Also, steer well away from Finnley, anyone who considers it. I work in childcare and every other child I've cared for is called Finnley (or Tyler). There are bloddy MILLIONS of them. The entire country will be named either Finnley or Tyler at this rate.