I know that these kinds of threads are common -I’ve often given feedback on them myself. However, something has recently come to my attention that I need outside opinions on.
Our top girl name is [name_f]Ada[/name_f]. That 99.9% will not change. However, DH and I were talking about relatives when he brought up a cousin of his…and that brought to mind their names. His cousin is a male [name_u]Addisen[/name_u]. [name_u]Addisen[/name_u]'s wife is named [name_f]Adaline[/name_f] (add-a-line). They have a daughter named [name_f]Adalynn[/name_f] and a new son named [name_u]Addisen[/name_u] [name_m]Jr[/name_m]. I guess they just really like this naming pattern… anyhow, since [name_u]Addisen[/name_u] and my husband’s fathers are brothers, we all have the same exact last name. These cousins live a few hours away and we usually just see them on Thanksgiving and [name_u]Christmas[/name_u].
Would this be too weird? We intend to use [name_f]Ada[/name_f] regardless, but I just wonder if it is just too odd. I know that our cousins’ names all have a different sound than [name_f]Ada[/name_f] (add- vs. ay). DH’s grandma and just about every other family member gets the names mixed up very often and they’ve run into issues with documents being sent to the wrong person. I wouldn’t want to add to it… and [name_f]Ada[/name_f] just seems a bit lackluster since it is so deeply in my mind about the cousin thing (which wasn’t an issue before since we have such little contact with them). Am I overthinking this?
I don’t think it should be a problem. [name_f]Ada[/name_f] is a beautiful choice, btw!
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] is lovely, and I think it’s definitely different enough not to be an issue in the grand scheme of things.
Your husbands grandma might get confused, but my grandparents got confused between all of my cousins despite us all having quite distinctly different names, so I wouldn’t worry about it.
Nope, I say stick with [name_f]Ada[/name_f], as it clearly is the one you really love. If they’re [name_f]Ada[/name_f], [name_f]Ada[/name_f] and [name_f]Ada[/name_f] then I may consider it too much, but it’s not the case, and you only see then a few times a year max. So stick with your [name_f]Ada[/name_f].
Thanks, all that makes me feel a lot better about it!
@maerad: haha, good point! Grandparents always seem to do that type of thing. As awful as this sounds, I know they won’t be around forever, so I don’t really want to limit our choices to what they are more likely to remember/what will more likely stand out.
@luneth: Thanks and lol, yeah, no [name_f]Ada[/name_f], [name_f]Ada[/name_f], [name_f]Ada[/name_f]‘s from us 
I still can’t believe his cousins’ names but whatever I guess.
I think it’s fine, even though it has the same beginning, as you pointed out, the sound is different.
As for husband’s cousin’s name choices - talk about overkill!! Geesh
I’d definitely use [name_f]Ada[/name_f] if I were you. I don’t think it’ll be a huge problem with other [name_f]Ada[/name_f]- names in the family. My dad’s mum and his sister-in-law have the exact same name and no one gets confused. As to getting documents sent to the wrong person, that would really only happen if you live in the same house. Your DH’s cousin’s family is a bit crazy!
they sound different and you don’t see them often, so I wouldn’t worry about it.
definitely stick with [name_f]Ada[/name_f]
In my family, there are three cousins named [name_f]Meghan[/name_f], [name_f]Mikayla[/name_f] and [name_f]Miranda[/name_f] and their names all often get mixed up, it’s sort of an inevitable thing with grandparents! I wouldn’t worry too much about it - if you saw them every day or something, then I’d avoid [name_f]Ada[/name_f], but since it’s only a handful of times a year, I think it’d be fine.
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] is beautiful, I’d still use it. It may look like [name_f]Adeline[/name_f], [name_u]Addisen[/name_u], and [name_f]Adelynn[/name_f], but it sounds different. Ay-duh versus all the [name_m]Add[/name_m]- make the names different.
My mom has a brother and several cousins all named [name_m]George[/name_m]. They use their middle names to distinguish: [name_m]George[/name_m] [name_m]Paul[/name_m], [name_m]George[/name_m] [name_u]Lou[/name_u], [name_m]George[/name_m] Spero… etc. They’re all named after the same grandfather, it was a tradition thing. My point is, in comparison, your [name_m]Ad[/name_m]- similarity is no big deal. Especially since you only see them on holidays.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] an aside, my daughter is 2 and I only just realized that all the female cousins on my husbands side have similar endings to their names [name_f]Azalea[/name_f], Panelia, [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_f]Thalia[/name_f]. I think it’s kind
of cool.