[name_m]How[/name_m] do you all feel about alliteration in names? [name_f]Do[/name_f] you like it or dislike it? Why or why not and what are your favorite names with alliteration?
In certain combinations, names with alliteration can sound great, in a cute and sing-song way that I find adorable. As long as the names are different enough, it can work but sometimes the names are too close. So, it depends. I think [name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Azalea[/name_f], [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_u]Blair[/name_u], [name_f]Clementine[/name_f] [name_f]Ciel[/name_f], [name_f]Delilah[/name_f] [name_u]Dove[/name_u], [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Elise[/name_f], [name_f]Flora[/name_f] [name_f]Faye[/name_f], [name_f]Genevieve[/name_f] [name_f]Grace[/name_f], [name_u]Harmony[/name_u] [name_f]Hope[/name_f], [name_f]Isla[/name_f] [name_u]Indigo[/name_u], [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] [name_u]Lake[/name_u], [name_f]Marigold[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f], [name_f]Natalia[/name_f] [name_u]Noel[/name_u], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f] [name_f]Opal[/name_f], [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] [name_f]Pearl[/name_f], [name_f]Romilly[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f], [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f] [name_f]Seraphine[/name_f], [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f] [name_f]Violet[/name_f], and [name_f]Wisteria[/name_f] [name_u]Wren[/name_u] all work in a cute way. But names like [name_u]January[/name_u] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] or [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] [name_f]Kate[/name_f] just don’t sound as good to me, I like them separately but together its very repeated.
Yeah I agree, they should balance each other out so it’s not too much. I like your combos of [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_u]Blair[/name_u], [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] [name_f]Pearl[/name_f], and [name_f]Delilah[/name_f] [name_u]Dove[/name_u].
Usually I’m not a fan but there are times when names just go together regardless.
I love alliteration! I don’t really have set combos but I’d like to do alliteration for at least one of my children.
I was [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] [name_m]Jagger[/name_m] until I married and I loved it xxx
I like it a lot, but it has to flow well! I briefly considered some L middles for my daughter but with the repetitive L sound in her first name it sounded like too much.
[name_m]Robert[/name_m] [name_m]Russell[/name_m] sounds great, [name_m]Robert[/name_m] [name_m]Roger[/name_m] not so much lol. [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] [name_f]Laila[/name_f] was immediately out, [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] [name_f]Leora[/name_f] was given a little more thought. I probably won’t ever use an alliterative name, but some I’d consider:
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] [name_f]Ariadne[/name_f]
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m] [name_m]Leopold[/name_m]
I always hated alliterative names. But then I met my husband, who has an alliterative name and the whole concept really grew on me. We won’t end up using one bc we have a weird thing where we want everyone in the family to have a different initials and my husband is already B.B. But I do generally love them- they are very memorable, which is nice.
I love them! I think they’re very memorable, and seem to have more personality, for some reason… maybe just because alliterative names are often used in books.
I love them when done right. The two names need to have their own distintive sound beyond the first letter. My first and middle names are alliterative and my son’s first and last names are as well. It sounds great and is memorable.
I like alliteration! It just rolls off the tongue easier and makes a name easy to remember.
It really depends on the names, as everyone else has said - but I’m also a bit fussier, in that I mostly prefer alliterative names that don’t sound alliterative, like [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] or [name_f]Genevieve[/name_f] [name_f]Gail[/name_f] (to use random examples). Some do work really well though.
I love First Name/Last Name alliterations, but I don’t like when the First/Middle or Middle/Last are alliterative. My husband as an alliterative name, and before I took on his last name I had an alliterative name. I really miss my alliteration!
Alliteration is fine, but not w/the first letter of each name. It should be more subtle than that. Repeated vowel sounds are not alliterative–the correct term is assonance. Alliteration only applies to consonants. Names like Guinevere Aurora (r’s) or Ava Valentina (V’s) are my favorites.
I am sort of indifferent to alliteration. If I dislike a combo, example, [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] [name_u]Dylan[/name_u], I dislike it because the two names clash too much in vibe, and I personally dislike like them together. I do not dislike [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] [name_u]Dylan[/name_u] because of the alliteration. That doesn’t bother me. I don’t really think of alliteration much if that makes sense.
I will come up with a few that are more my taste:
[name_f]Veronica[/name_f] [name_f]Violet[/name_f]
[name_f]Theresa[/name_f] [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f]
[name_f]Nadia[/name_f] [name_f]Novalie[/name_f]
[name_f]Nadia[/name_f] [name_f]Nicolette[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Belen[/name_f]
[name_f]Gabrielle[/name_f] [name_f]Gwyneth[/name_f]
[name_f]Gwyneth[/name_f] [name_f]Gabrielle[/name_f]
I’ve chosen a girl name that shares its first letter with my surname. [name_f]Bonnie[/name_f] B***
I think it sounds sweet. I wouldn’t like it if they shared vowel sounds, but they’re quite different other than the"B."
I love alliteration! My first and maiden name alliterate, and SO’s middle and last name do as well. We actually found a lot of examples of it in our immediate family so if possible, we’ll choose alliterative names. One of our options for a girl happens to alliterate, but the other choices don’t. We’re not pushing it, but we both love it.
What do you all think of [name_u]Adair[/name_u] [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f] or [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Claire[/name_f]?
As a person who had triple alliteration before I got married ([name_f]Madelyn[/name_f] [name_f]Marie[/name_f] Mc…), I can honestly say that I didn’t mind. Other people rarely made a comment about it. I found the sound to be cool, actually. I’d never use it on my child, but it’s not bad if you do.
bedhead, I think both [name_u]Adair[/name_u] [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f] and [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Claire[/name_f] work. I do prefer the flow of [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f] [name_u]Adair[/name_u], but it isn’t bad the other way. I like alliterative names. However, I do prefer that they don’t have the same sound in the beginning like [name_u]Ronnie[/name_u] [name_m]Rogers[/name_m].