Coby and MILDRID?!

I just saw a post on a photography site regarding siblings named [name_m]Coby[/name_m] (boy) and…wait for it…[name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] (yes, that is an ‘i’ where there should be an ‘e’).

Is it just me, or is that the most mismatched set ever?!

Oh goodness. I don’t know which is worst- how mismatched they are, the name [name_f]Mildred[/name_f]/[name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] itself, or the misspelling. I like lots of “old-lady” names like [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Agnes[/name_f] and even [name_f]Maude[/name_f] (sometimes), but [name_f]Mildred[/name_f] is too much for me.

[name_f]My[/name_f] guess is that they named her [name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] with the intention of usually calling her [name_f]Millie[/name_f] and the photography site just happened to print her full name, or [name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] is a family name (which would explain the unusual spelling). Maybe even both.

Yeah, I would assume that too. Plus I prefer [name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] to [name_f]Mildred[/name_f], even though it sort of looks like Madrid to me.

Neither are horrific, and honestly they’d probably seem like a perfectly normal sibset to a non-Namenerd; I actually find it refreshing when I hear random siblings like this… I just get the feeling the parents care more about the meaning and significance than how they sound superficially in a ‘‘sibset’’. That’s how I plan on naming my children - as individuals with beautiful, meaningful names, and if they’re totally mismatched, so be it.

I sort of agree with this.
Honestly, most of the sibsets I know in real life are “terribly mismatched” and people keep continuing the trend because at the end of the day their kids can still get good jobs with the names. I don’t think [name_m]Coby[/name_m] and [name_f]Mildrid[/name_f] are that bad.

You’ve got a point there. But it’s still more pleasant to meet sibsets where the names go well together than ones where they don’t. (Of course, what goes together well is also subjective.)

I meet more families with mismatched sibsets than I do families with matched sibsets. So when I see a well matched sibset it does put a smile on my face I will admit that. I agree with you there on “what goes well together is subjective”.

A few months back while on vacation we drove pass a house with pink and blue decorations outside for what I assume were boy/girl twins. There was a huge sign that said “[name_f]Happy[/name_f] Birthday, [name_u]Chase[/name_u] & [name_f]Harriet[/name_f]”. [name_f]My[/name_f] mom said, “So, Grandma & her grandson are having a party together?” She couldn’t believe that anyone would give twins such mismatched names