Is it bad to do the “all with the same letter” thing? I have never really liked it when people did that, but it seems all my favorite names begin with the letter L. Is it bad to name all my kids L names? Thoughts?
I don’t think it’s necessarily good or bad either way, but I do think it can get a little too “cutesy” for my own personal taste. I know a family with four daughters, each with the initials BJP. That’s a little excessive for me. But I also think it can be really well done! If all the names you love begin with “L,” try some variation with the middle names and see how you like the flow. Also, try and imagine how you’d sign a holiday card or gift tag from your whole family. That should tell you whether you would like the names all together. Good luck!
I also don’t think it’s good or bad, but to me it’s a bit cheesy.
It’s not really a bad thing. I mean, I personally don’t think I could ever do it as repeating the same letter right after one another just bothers me and I hate when I am doing those Facebook things where you have to use your initials but my siblings and I all have similar answers because our middle names all begin with “M”. If you like “L” names more than anything, I’d say to just go with it. Using the names you like is most important.
I think it’s something you have to decide as it comes. You’ll use your favorite one first, and by the time the next child comes around, you’ll have a better idea of if you want to match their initials or not. I find that I refer to my kids often by a first initial (texts, quick notes etc.) and having them with the same one would be confusing.
No it’s not a bad thing, my main complaint/ ugh moment when hearing of people do that is they restrict themselves to just letter hence using names they may not like or giving the child a name that doesn’t suit them. In your case, it just seems to be a lucky coincidence. It is cheesy, but it’s not bad at all.
I think it’s fine if you really love the names, when it gets cheesy is when people try to force the same letter thing.
Falling in love with several names, all of which coincidentally share the same initial, is one thing. Arbitrarily choosing a letter, and then selecting names with that as the most important criterion, is a whole ‘nother, and can be cheesy.
It gets to be a tongue twister, in my experience - my dog and my son share a first initial and I’ll mix their names up if I’m talking to/about both (e.g. “[name_u]Roscoe[/name_u], stop pulling [name_m]Reuben[/name_m]’s tail! I mean, [name_m]Reuben[/name_m], leave [name_u]Roscoe[/name_u]’s tail alone!”).
You can always find nicknames that don’t start with the same first letter. For instance, [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] and [name_f]Matilda[/name_f] could go by [name_f]Greta[/name_f] and [name_f]Tilly[/name_f]; [name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] and [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] could go by [name_u]Billie[/name_u] and [name_u]Freddie[/name_u]…there are options!
I agree with everything seedsandstones said. If the names you love happen to start with L 2 or 3 times, that’s fine. But I don’t think that should then mean you must give the next child an L name.