My partner and I are TTC and while we’re planning the potential names of our future baby, we’re also thinking long term for their future siblings. I’ve realized that a lot of our favourite names don’t “match”.
I’ve always wanted 4 children and our fave names are -
Boys - [name_u]Bobby[/name_u], [name_u]Sacha[/name_u], [name_u]Spencer[/name_u], [name_u]Nico[/name_u]
Girls - [name_f]Lilja[/name_f], [name_u]Remy[/name_u], [name_u]Scotty[/name_u], [name_f]Esme[/name_f], [name_f]Mona[/name_f], [name_f]Kasia[/name_f]
No matter what 4 combos we come up with, none of the names seem to match each other.
I was wondering if my fellow berries think there should be a greater emphasis on a “theme” and that they match? I’m really torn on this.
Btw, we plan on giving our children two middle names since we want to highlight their [name_m]French[/name_m], [name_m]Black[/name_m] Native and Irish ancestry
I’m not big on theme, if you like it, then it’s your style, and that’s your “theme”
I feel like [name_u]Sacha[/name_u], [name_u]Nico[/name_u], [name_f]Lilja[/name_f], and [name_f]Kasia[/name_f] go fine with each other. Similar length, similar feel.
[name_u]Spencer[/name_u] and [name_f]Esme[/name_f] go fine with each other in terms of length, sound, and style.
[name_f]Mona[/name_f] doesn’t go with anything.
[name_u]Bobby[/name_u] and [name_u]Scotty[/name_u] arguably go with each other if you’re fine with them sounding androgynous.
If [name_u]Bobby[/name_u] is [name_m]Robert[/name_m] it doesn’t go too badly with [name_u]Spencer[/name_u] and [name_f]Esme[/name_f].
I generally like sibling names to be roughly as popular/uncommon as each other, and preferably generally similar syllable count. That’s my taste. I don’t need rigid themes, I don’t particularly like matching initials.
I like a theme. Growing up I had the “odd name out” in my sibset and it didn’t bother me, but it was questioned by a few people (my siblings have very trendy 80’s/90’s names and I’m [name_f]Mary[/name_f]) If I met a sibset named [name_u]Bobby[/name_u], [name_u]Sacha[/name_u], and [name_f]Esme[/name_f] I’d be vaguely confused and interested. Like a pp said, you can make it work though.
As someone else said, I fit things based roughly on their popularity, or familiarity. For example though [name_m]Robert[/name_m] is quite popular and [name_m]Leonard[/name_m] isn’t I don’t think [name_m]Robert[/name_m] and [name_m]Leonard[/name_m] are a mismatch, they’re both classics. At the same time, it doesn’t really matter, if you love them there’s no reason they have to “match” anything.
Boys - [name_u]Bobby[/name_u], [name_u]Sacha[/name_u], [name_u]Spencer[/name_u], [name_u]Nico[/name_u]
Girls - [name_f]Lilja[/name_f], [name_u]Remy[/name_u], [name_u]Scotty[/name_u], [name_f]Esme[/name_f], [name_f]Mona[/name_f], [name_f]Kasia[/name_f]
I think [name_u]Sacha[/name_u], [name_u]Nico[/name_u], [name_f]Lilja[/name_f], [name_f]Kasia[/name_f], [name_f]Esme[/name_f] and [name_u]Remy[/name_u] go fine together. [name_u]Bobby[/name_u], [name_u]Spencer[/name_u], [name_u]Scotty[/name_u] and [name_f]Mona[/name_f] go ok together, though I don’t know if i’d want a [name_u]Bobby[/name_u] and a [name_u]Scotty[/name_u]. Depends if they are full names or nn. [name_u]Spencer[/name_u] and [name_f]Mona[/name_f] are good together.
Your favorites don’t have to match. I actually enjoy eclectically-named sibling groups because they’re more intriguing to me.