Do sibling names have to "go" together ??

[MummyTumble]

Just wondered what the MN jury thinks about sibling names matching - or does it matter if they have totally different naming styles as they are individuals??

e.g. traditional with modern or trendy??

Is anyone that bothered or is it just me?

(Our chosen boys name seems to totally 'go' with our other dc names (IMO) whereas our chosen girls name is totally different...)

Are the hormones making me think too much about this

My girls both ended up with hippyish nouns as names, loosely connected with time. But my ds has a very short, simple old fashioned boy's name.

I'm fine with that, but I have had the odd surprised comment from people who know my DDs when they hear what DS is called

It's a bit like choosing an outfit though, you don't want everything to match completely. A bit of contrast or quirkiness can liven things up!

I don't think so.

I think you do have to make sure they don't sound the same - emily and amelie or shannon and sharon or barnaby and barney etc etc

Or have all your kids names start with the same letter!

Even WORSE if that letter matches yours!

I knew a family where every member's name began with the letter D - naffola!

i do have a thing about initials and am concerned the girls first initial is the same as mine ..but middleone would be different, and would be Miss..not Mrs..

Again i think i spend too much time thinking about this....

time to get out more ????

Like the idea of a bit of quirkiness livening things up too!

Don't think it matters if they do or they don't.

My two dds are SO different in looks and personalities, it would seem completely ok if their names were of a totally differnt ilk too!

As it happens, their names are in the same style - fairly simple and classic. I suppose you want to give your children a fair and equal start in life, so I would have found it hard to give one a really solid "safe" name and the other something totally wacky that could cause embarassment.

My 3 children do not have the same sounding names but they do have their forename with 2 syllables, middle name with 1 syllable, and surname has 3 syllables so they have the same rhyming sequence. Didn't think of this at the time, but just seemed to work.

I confess to having a matchy matchy OCDness.... which is under control now (mostly)....
BUT I do still think sibling names need to come from the same "family".... so Araminta and Kevin doesn't work... ditto Brittany and Florence...

SOME quirky combos work. Others just grate on my ear.

But your choice of course!

I agree with the op. They should sound like the same parents chose them.

good matches imo would be something like Juliet, Annabel and Marcus.

Or Margot, Lois and Victor.

Or Coco, Dulcie and Bruno.

Juliet and Coco for example would just make me wonder if one sister was a step sister or did one changer her name, and which one?!

But as the PP says, obviously your babies, your decision, but I couldn't have a Zelda and then an Emily.

Sorry, i mean i agree with the pp, hohohojollster

The odd thing is that we know two (large) families with several adopted children, whose names all seem to fit OK together anyway, despite being chosen by several different people (so one has something along the lines of Fiona, Callum, Mackenzie, Thomas and Lauren, and the other has Adam, Dan, Rebecca and Matt).

Not that I'm suggesting you name your child with a view to fitting into random adoptee families, but if you stick to the middle ground you should be just fine.

If I heard Brittany and Florence together I'd assume something about your holiday habits...

I'm not sure I agree re modern or traditional, but I do think they need to sound sensible together, when yelling them all in from the garden or when you sign off your Christmas cards! We have a Jack so of course that rules out Zac, Jake, Jacob... and probaly ANY girls name beginning with J for fear of it sounding a bit Jack & Jill!!

I don't think so, but it's be weird to have Tarquin and John lol

I don't think mine and my brothers names go together but hm