How do you feel about the sound of you and your partner's names?

Maybe I’m a little biased since I go by a chosen name (Sadie), but I think my partner and I both have really cool names and that they sound good together. We both have very common given names, Sarah for me, I don’t want to post his without permission, and go by the more unique nicknames, and I just think it sounds so cool when people say our names together. If/when we end up having kids I think our names are going to be a jumping off point to name our kids, I like the vibe of ours and would want the kids names to fit in with that same vibe!

What do you think? Are you inspired by your name and your partners name? Do you/are you going to to try and have a cohesive sound including your names? Or do you dislike the style and don’t take your own names into account?

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I have a typical Italian name of my generation ([name_f]Alessia[/name_f]) that I quite like even if is not my style at all. The only problem with my name is that is too popular, I like rare and vintage names.
[name_f]My[/name_f] boyfriend is spanish and even if I didn’t like his name at the start I started to appreciate it more especially with the andalusian pronunciation.
One thing I love about our names together is that they both start with AL, so they sound really cohesive even if they are from different languages.
I think they are quite melodious together.

it would be cool for our children to have names that also start with A and there are also many names I like in spanish with this letter like [name_f]Ainara[/name_f], [name_f]Araceli[/name_f], Aitana,…
but we will see in the future!

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Hmm…I think I’m just used to them being used together, after being together for nearly a decade. It sounds/feels incomplete to hear one without the other sometimes. Our name’s themselves sound okay together but don’t have much in common. We didn’t even consider any sort of “family flow” when picking baby names. I love when family names go together on tv or in a book but it just isn’t much of a thing in real life.

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I agree with @namergirl3. Our names have simply been said together so often that they now sound “right” that way. A classmate has even turned them into a mashup/shipname that we have adopted to label shared files etc.
Rationally I don’t think our names match at all. His is not exactly a classic, but somewhat timeless and I would have considered it for my own son with a different partner. Mine is a mom name. I’ve never had strong feelings about it one way or the other, although I suppose it is objectively pretty.
I’ve never considered matching the kids’ names to ours, except if you count the possibility to spell something with the initials (which wasn’t my own idea). I might have been influenced to like -a endings for girls though because I don’t have one.
The only thing that definitely influenced both of us was the number of names we got. I have a middle name, so that makes it feel natural to me to give one to my kids, he doesn’t, so it feels natural to him not to.

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haha i was thinking about this… i remember when i was younger thinking that a couple were soulmates if their names sounded nice together, but maybe it was the just the name nerd in me having a moment ! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: perhaps there’s a (very negligible) link between the naming style of the parents and passing down similar values / methods of raising their kids, overall making people more compatible :frowning_face_with_open_mouth:

i love how mine and my boyfriend’s name sound together, they would even make for a twins set - we share the same first initial, relative popularity, syllables and origin of name. isn’t it a weird coincidence :sweat_smile: i suppose the only downside is that if we were to have kids, to choose names with our initial would start a theme we’d just have to maintain :weary:

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Me & my OH names are very traditional I’m [name_f]Victoria[/name_f] he’s [name_u]Joseph[/name_u] I have a lot of different nicknames but tend to go by [name_f]Victoria[/name_f] and [name_u]Joseph[/name_u] gets Joe/Joey so I think are names go really nicely together but definitely not cool

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I think my partner’s name sounds great with mine. His name is [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] “Sam”, and I’m [name_f]Stella[/name_f]. “Sam and Stella” rolls of the tongue pretty well. Like some others in this thread, we’ve been together long enough that people hardly ever say our names individually anymore. I actually prefer our names together than on their own!

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My boyfriend and I have such cutesy names (Ruby & D!ego) I think they to great together! I’ve mentioned that to him before lol

Having said that, I think it’s a bit unfortunate that I’d feel like I have to strike longer names off of our list. Adelaide & Emiliano for example would sound like our parents :joy: So now it’s something that I definitely take into consideration

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Yes we have traditional names (Jack & Charlotte) and I can’t decide when to keep with it or be a bit more modern!

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Both are common and sound religious (but different religions) I have never thought about this before.

For couples with children I think it is sweet if the children’s names tie back to the parents in some way. But I also like when the parents have very different names from their children because it shows what styles each generation gravitates to.

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[name_f]My[/name_f] boyfriends name is very common and mine is not, they also have very different vibes and we are very different people. But that said I think the spelling of our names together is nice