My naming style is quite varied; I certainly have a stylistic preference, but I’m no opposed to reaching out of my ‘classic/vintage/uncommon’ box and having some more fun.
For instance, my top three boy’s names right now are [name]Hector[/name], [name]Matthias[/name], and Dashiel; Dashiel feels out of place stylistically, but I’m not opposed to using all three. Similarly, I like [name]Helena[/name] and [name]Juniper[/name].
Does it matter if sibling names don’t ‘match’ each other? If I name my children [name]Keith[/name] and [name]Barnaby[/name], or [name]Jayden[/name] and [name]Socrates[/name], would it really matter?
If it doesn’t matter to you (and your partner), then it doesn’t matter at all.
Like all things, it comes back to personal preference.
To some it is super important, others not a consideration.
I fall somewhere in the middle… I prefer my children’s names to compliment one another… to me this means have a similar level of rarity, and a similar kind of length (shortish) and to each sound equally ‘special’ (which is of course subjective!).
But unlike many, not too worried about matching the history, origin, era, meaning, syllables etc… But that’s just me!
I think that ‘names you love’ can be enough of a ‘theme’ Though obviously the more eclectic your style the more mismatched your siblings are likely to be…
But really? Your children won’t be considered as part of a sibling ‘set’ for very long (childhood only) and it seems unfair to subsequent children to pick a name you love less just because it matches their elder siblings more…?
ETA: I think your names sound great together! Love them all
I have several cousins who’ve chosen mis-matched sib sets for their kids; they’ll have two or three kids that follow one pattern (usually less common vintage classics) and then one kid, usually the middle child, has a super trendy non-vintage name. And by [name]Berry[/name]'s standards it shouldn’t work, but their sib sets flow together fine and no one is put off by the mis-matchiness.
I know several sibsets that don’t match each other, or have one name out of place. I think I’m the only one who notices. However, I do know people who complain about being part of a matchy sibling set- i.e. [name]Hope[/name], [name]Faith[/name] and [name]Grace[/name], [name]Morgan[/name] and [name]Mason[/name], etc. While I’m all for subtle connections (same meaning, origin, complementary meanings), most won’t bat an eye at a sibset named [name]Sophia[/name] and [name]Amelie[/name].
I don’t think it really matters. I like for my hypothetical sibsets to be cohesive, but not matched, if that makes sense?
[name]Jayden[/name] and [name]Socrates[/name] are vey extreme and I would definitely wonder about it, but if you love the names, who can really say anything about it?
I think loving the names, even if they don’t necessarily compliment each other, is most important.
The only time I think sibsets mattering is if it’s going to be embarrassing for the kids.
I don’t think it really matters. The only rules I have for my children’s names is that if I have another girl, she has to have a name that is uncommon and not in the top 1000 because I don’t want one daughter named [name]Maeby[/name] and then one with a common name like “[name]Sophia[/name]” or something (not that I would pick that name because I don’t like it, but you get the idea!). For a boy, I don’t have a problem choosing something more popular, but not top 100. And I don’t think it would be bad to have a more common boy name and more creative girl name.
However I really like sibsets that work well together. Not super matchy like ([name]Hope[/name], [name]Faith[/name] and [name]Grace[/name]) but not [name]Socrates[/name] and [name]Jayden[/name] either. I really like the sibset that I currently have of [name]Patrick[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] so if we have another child then I would want their name to work well with [name]Patrick[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] so another classic name. I could see a child feeling left out if their siblings all had one type of name and they had a different one. Like if I had another daughter and named her [name]Rio[/name]. [name]Rio[/name] might dislike her name and have more issues with it then if she had siblings with equally unique names.