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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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Olihan · 26/04/2006 15:19

When dd was born we didn't have a girl's name as I was convinced she was a boy!! I really wanted Molly after my gran but ds is starting to be shortened to Ollie so......Ollie and Molly. Sounds very stupid to me so we went for something else and put molly in the middle.

JanH · 26/04/2006 15:43

I know a family where the mum, the dad and the son are all called Chris.

The daughter isn't. Can't imagine why not.

oliveoil · 26/04/2006 15:45

dh's relatives are called

Christine
Christopher
Christie

so if somone shouts CHRIS, you get all of them turning round.

madness

moondog · 26/04/2006 15:48

George Foreman called all his kids George didn't he? Arse
I know a worrying number of American men who pass the same name down followed by Roman numeral,thus something like Parker Mosely IV as if they're the bloody Kennedys or summat.

Hausfrau · 26/04/2006 15:50

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flobbleflobble · 26/04/2006 15:57

Find matching names a but twee tbh.

A woman I know has called her 3 boys & a girl all names ending with "ie" and all their names have 2 syllables.

So you'll be liking 2 syllable names ending with "ie" then?

flobbleflobble · 26/04/2006 16:00

Another woman I know clled her son Max so she could have "Molly & Max" - as she thought that sounded really cute! I think when shouted in combination with each other I would expect to see 2 labradors run up in response Grin

fisil · 26/04/2006 16:04

We had an unusual name for ds1, so when we were expecting ds2 we struck some names off the list because it would be odd to have one unusual and one common. I insisted on no shared initials because when they're teenagers we don't want to open their post accidentally!

Completely by chance we ended up with one English, one Irish, one Scottish and one Welsh name (the Irish and Scottish ones are their first names) - and I quite like that.

However, you just can't predict nicknames, and we do seem to be heading towards nicknames of ... wait for it ... Finty and Minty!

marthamoo · 26/04/2006 16:26

I didn't want names that started with the same letter as I have the same initial as my brother and always felt it was a bit too matching - we both have one syllable names too so it's a bit like Jill and John.

I think my boys' names go together in that they are both fairly classic, not trendy or outlandish - though one is Biblical and the other is not.

I have a friend who has three boys and the first has a really posh name (very public school) and the other two have very old-fashioned religious names - to me, they just don't 'go'.

But what makes me laugh the most is when you get someone who has a few children, and the first ones all have ordinary names, and the last has something weird and wonderful - like they might have James, Thomas, Megan...and then the last one will be Nefertiti Grin Like they suddenly got brave when they knew it was their last child...

SenoraPostrophe · 26/04/2006 19:42

you know, much as I think "matching" names are silly for normal siblings, they're fine for twins. there are twin boys in dd's class called manuel and daniel (which very nearly rhymes with manuel in spanish) - i always think it's cute.

singalonga · 26/04/2006 19:51

I would probably go with names I fancy for both - I think part of what you like about a name is how it goes with your surname and your other kids' names. You might have a built in matcher, IYSWIM. DD is Lucy - a name we both loved. I really liked Cecilia but doesn't go with DH's surname (which DD has).

My BIL and SIL have adopted a little boy, and name changing is pretty much a no no. The only way you can is if you either have a very close relative with the same name (they couldn't have a Lucy) or if it's utterly ridiculous and so social services feel that it would be obvious to anyone that the name didn't "match" your family. The only name change they know of which was allowed was a child called Pebbles by her birth mother - didn't really fit in with her new parents and so was changed to Penelope. If you just get a name you hate - or wouldn't have chosen yourself - tough luck.

Would want DB 2 to have a name which matched his/ her surname, TBH, rather than automatically matching Lucy. Smile

pucca · 26/04/2006 20:05

I don't think people should put old fashioned names with modern names though, just seems silly to me. Smile

Thomcat · 26/04/2006 20:10

Haven't read whole thread but basically I agree with Pucca.

It was defo a factor when choosing DD2's nbame that it didn't look / sound odd next to DD1's.

DD1 is Charlotte / Lottie and I like the name Ziggy for a girl. Just seemed strange to call one something so English and namal and classic and the other one something so weird.

2 of my friends are sister and 1 has a very unique, unusal, never ever heard it before, Nigerian name and the other has a very common English name. Everyone who knows they are sisters thinks the difference in their names is funny / odd.

collision · 26/04/2006 22:11

Thomcat....what did you call your dd2 in the end and are you happy with it? I know it was really hard for you to come up with something.

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