Couples with same names - would this affect your decision?

[ashthedreamer]

I remember reading an article/watching a news story about a couple who both had the exact same FN and LN before they married. I think it was [name]Kelly[/name] Hendricks or something. Either way, the girl searched and found another [name]Kelly[/name] Hendricks on Facebook, a guy in [name]Texas[/name], and they started messaging each other… and then they started dating. They ended up getting married, and seem to be fairly happy (in the video, anyway!). I think I remember them telling people to call them Thing 1 and Thing 2.

I don’t think I’d be bothered if I married an [name]Ashley[/name]–I actually like [name]Ashley[/name] on a boy just as much as I like it on a girl, and I’m sure we’d figure out a way around it (so long as I don’t have to call him [name]Lee[/name]! shudder). I think people put too much emphasis on the horribleness of meeting someone of the opposite gender with the same name. Then again, I share my FN with my uncle and his brother ([name]Bruce[/name] [name]Ashley[/name] and [name]Ashley[/name] [name]Bruce[/name]), so it’s really never bothered me that much. I do sort of feel like I can never really own up to my full feminine potential, seeing that I have a unisex name, but that’s entirely different from feeling my sexuality or sexual orientation or whatever is threatened because I know a boy with my name! That’s ridiculous, honestly.

So no, it wouldn’t affect me at all. The only names that are really unisex that are on my list are [name]Avery[/name] and [name]Bailey[/name], and I love [name]Avery[/name] for its family connections, and I’m just too madly in love with [name]Bailey[/name] to let it go, so I don’t think the thought that my son [name]Avery[/name] or [name]Bailey[/name] would marry an [name]Avery[/name] or [name]Bailey[/name] (very likely in today’s naming world!) would affect my decision at all.

[east93]

I don’t see how I’d possibly avoid that situation since there are many names that have female/male equivalents. And who’s to say they’d marry someone with the same name? That’s overthinking it to me!

I know a couple named [name]Michelle[/name] and [name]Michael[/name].

[jazz1509]

@isabel_r

My dad’s name is [name]Robert[/name] and his sister married a [name]Robert[/name]. We spend Christmases and/or Thanksgivings and my grandparents’ (their parents) house and its extremely confusing! Neither go by [name]Rob[/name]/[name]Bob[/name]/[name]Bert[/name]/ect so its just [name]Robert[/name]

We often go “[name]Robert[/name]” “No, my [name]Robert[/name]!” which doesn’t clarify things exactly, lol.

It wouldn’t bother me if they had the same name as me (Although I’m an [name]Isabel[/name]…sooo not many boy Isabels I know of). I do think its more common for gay couples to have the same name then straight couples, just because there are so many Jennifers and Michaels, that the Jordans and Kellys don’t exactly add up, despite the low gay population.

And I also agree that it’d be a lot weirder to date someone with the name of a brother/dad. I’ll probably have to deal with that, since [name]Thomas[/name] and [name]Robert[/name] are pretty common for teens, but its weird thinking about.

In my family my Grandfather is [name]Robert[/name], my Uncle is [name]Robert[/name], my cousin is [name]Robert[/name], my Aunty married a [name]Robert[/name] and when my Grandfather remarried his stepsons name is [name]Robert[/name]… It’s a really confusing!