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Do you think it's necessary for your kid's names to "match"?

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Miaou · 25/04/2006 18:37

Was thinking about this earlier as there was a poster the other day wanting a flower name for her second dd to go with her dd1's flower name. I thought ... hmmm, then realised that my kids' names "match" in the sense that they are all gaelic!

And I once knew a woman with three girls called Sharon, Tracy and Clarissa, which I thought was a little strange ...

However your siblings are only with you on a daily basis during your childhood, and for the most part of your life you will not be living with reference to them ... so how necessary is it really?

Just interested in your thoughts ...

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fastasleep · 25/04/2006 19:44

Brilliantness watch it boring MNers or the AA team will get you... :)

anyway off to 'work' to I go...

singersgirl · 25/04/2006 19:47

I wanted names that were the same sort of names, from the same time and place -I think it's odd when names come from really different cultures or times (eg a family called Augusta, Scarlett and Siobhan, for example). But don't like rhyming, same initials, or too strong a link (eg all flowers or all gemstones).

So my DSs both have names that are slightly old-fashioned abbreviations of common names, though they are both registered with the 'full' name. One name is much more popular, in both the abbreviated and full form, than the other. They could both have been names from an 1880 or 1940 classroom too.

KTeePee · 25/04/2006 19:47

I think if you are going to have a theme, you should stick to it. I know a family of four kids where they all have names starting with L apart from one, another family of 5 where they all have gaelic names apart from one. I would worry that the one who is "different" would be upset by this.

My kids all have gaelic names, mainly because no 1 was a girl and the name we had picked was gaelic so we followed on with the others. If she had been a boy she would have had a "traditional" first name and gaelic second. DS1 was therefore given the names we had picked if dd had been male, but the other way around.

Me and my my siblings are a mixture of gaelic names and ones which were fleetingly popular at the time and I think the gaelic ones have stood the test of time better and go better with our surname

tortoiseshell · 25/04/2006 19:50

I think names have to 'go' well with each other - my two have biblical names, and the third will have a traditional (if not biblical) name! I just think it would be really weird to have Joseph, Adam, Jacob, Sarah and Chardonnay iyswim!

KTeePee · 25/04/2006 19:50

Oh and I also know a family with kids called John and Sean (Sean is the Irish for John!) and even one where a son was Sean John (and isn't there some singer called that?)

lockets · 25/04/2006 19:55

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manitz · 25/04/2006 19:57

we decided to go for red white and blue as middle names.

dd1 is ruby, dd2's middle name is blanche if i get a third girl her mid name wld be iris.

aside from our devotion to queen and country it's because we hadn't really gone for a mid name for dd1 so dh got me to give a character from one of my fave films so dd1 is josephine after some like it hot. dd2 is after blanche dubois... themes aplenty:o

SoupDragon · 25/04/2006 19:58

Well, if I had my time over again, I'd give all three the same name. Would save me remembering which one I@m talking too/calling.

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jac34 · 25/04/2006 20:01

Mine sort of match,they have Italian names,DH's family are Italian and we have a foreign surname.
They always get called by a shortened version of their names,which don't match and could be from any culture.
I have a Tomaso mostly called Tom.
and a Alessandro mostly called Al.

jac34 · 25/04/2006 20:06

Just had a thought,we would quite like to give them a middle name from each of their granfathers.For some reason we didn't think of it when they were named.(stupid I know)
Does anyone know how difficult it would be,to add a middle name now???

cece · 25/04/2006 20:20

My friend has 5 kids their names all match as the second letter are the vowels and all start with same letter so;

ja
je**
ji*
jo*
ju**

Not sure if she planned it from the start or noticed the pattern and kept it up!

Peachyclair · 25/04/2006 20:24

yeah but.... everyone thinks we have a theme with sam and stirling, and that HArold blows it but there was not heme, just nice names.

suedonim · 25/04/2006 20:28

Three of my four have Biblical names and the fourth has an old-fashioned name so I suppose there is a bit of a theme there.

There are twin girls at dd2's school called Holly and Hayley. Shock They are amazingly identical, always kitted out in exactly the same clothes etc. Dd2 didn't even realise there were twins at her school until one had a spot on her chin and the other didn't! Grin

skerriesmum · 25/04/2006 20:32

Depends on how "ethnic" your surname is I guess. We have a very Irish name so we couldn't use, for example, Guido for ds! I am also very picky that the name must end in a consonant as the surname is O'...
My ds is Brendan, my dh Ronan and if we have another boy I think we'll call him Eamonn! (Or is that too rhymey...)

Hausfrau · 25/04/2006 20:32

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popsycalindisguise · 25/04/2006 20:34

Ds1 and ds2 were named after their great grandfathers. Not a conscious decision at first but we liked the names lots and wanted to them to have a link to the great grandfathers that they only just didnt have a chance to meet.

However! When ds2 was about 4 weeks old, an old aunt of Dh's said 'If you have a third, you will have to call him Dick!!' (work it out....)

I love their names and they really suit them!

skerriesmum · 25/04/2006 20:35

And just as an aside, I love French names for girls and they'll go with an Irish name because of the Catholic thing, e.g. Bernadette, Colette, Catherine, Pauline... not sure if people even know that they're originally French names!

SenoraPostrophe · 25/04/2006 20:38

Oooh I would have loved to call ds or dd after one of their great grandparents, but all of my grandparents and all of dh's grandparents have very old fashioned names of the decidedly not back in fashion variety. as a taste, 2 of the options would be Albert and Fred.

anyway ds and dd's names don't match really. one is tenuously a family name with a scottish spelling, and the other is a spanish name with star wars connections. just don't ask.

Tutter · 25/04/2006 21:17

i once went out with an Ian John. always wanted to ask his mum why, in effect, she called him 'john john'. but thought she might think me a pompous cow Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 25/04/2006 21:22

No, and ours don't remotely. DD2's name is German (my roots are German-Jewish), but very old fashioned in Germany these days, and DD1's name is biblical (new testament). I wanted to call DD1 Yael (DH: "Like the locks?") but that got vetoed. We did try to give DD2 a biblical name to "go with" DD1, but could not agree on anything. Was nearly Abigail, but DD1's godmother put us off that by calling her it with the Hebrew pronunciation "Avigoil" - not pretty.

Oy, Lockets, what happened to you calling your next one Mieke then???

lockets · 25/04/2006 21:27

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MrsSchadenfreude · 25/04/2006 21:30

Evil, evil woman. Angry for you. How could she be so inconsiderate? It's not a bloody dog's name!

foundintranslation · 25/04/2006 21:35

I would have liked Emmanuel for a (as yet theoretical) ds2 but ds is Samuel, so it's not going to happen.

hunkermunkfish · 25/04/2006 21:36

GS, DS1's name was roundly despised on a thread recently (except for Lockets - thank you, Lockets!) but I don't care because I love it!

I get asked if there's a Scottish influence and I do have Scottish rellies, but that's not why we have the names we do (neither's particularly Scottish - DS1's also has a French meaning).

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