Should sibling names share letters?

I have a dd named [name]Margo[/name]. I name I’ve been liking lately for a future baby is [name]Eve[/name]. But when I put [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eve[/name] next to each other it doesn’t look right. I think style-wise they’re not terrible together, but [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Ingrid[/name], [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eloise[/name], [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Harriet[/name] all look and sound better to me. Am I being to picky or is this real? Would it deter you from using a name?

It’s different from person to person I think. I’m one of those who want the names to really fit together, as you can see in my signature, especially [name]Alice[/name], [name]Lucie[/name] and [name]Julia[/name] share most of their letters.
My sister, however, isn’t too picky on that. Of course she wants them to flow well together, but they don’t have to share letters necessarily. She has 2 daughters, whose names share not one letter, but they do fit together…

Personnally, I don’t think [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eve[/name] sound wrong together. Not at all, actually. And I absolutely don’t think [name]Margo[/name] & [name]Eloise[/name] and [name]Margo[/name] & [name]Harriet[/name] sound better :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess i don’t understand. You don’t want any of the letters in [name]Margo[/name] to appear in the second child’s name? I’ve never heard of that before. I can understand not wanting to have to “m” named children or having two children with rhyming endings, but to have all the letters be different seems a bit extreme.

Personally i think [name]Harriet[/name] and [name]Margo[/name] go very well together.

[name]IMO[/name] you are thinking way too hard about this. :slight_smile: Most people want their childrens’ names to flow, but I don’t think they have to share letters to do that.

[name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eve[/name] sound lovely together. I like those much better than [name]Margo[/name] & [name]Harriet[/name]. Use the name you love without worrying about patterns and similar letters.

Good luck!

Mcintyr1, I’m saying it seems weird when sib names don’t share any letters.

I guess part of it might be that I have mild synesthesia (letters/numbers have colors to me) and that may be why in my head, names that don’t share any of the same letters don’t “match” as well. [name]Just[/name] wanted to see if I’m crazy, which I apparently am :slight_smile: Thanks for your thoughts!

[name]Margo[/name] & [name]Eve[/name] are stunning together! I like them better than your other options.
I had never heard of synesthesia before so I googled it. That’s really interesting! Maybe for you it would help if they did share the same letters.
Wikipedia told about spacial synesthesia that numbers have their place on a number map. ie: 1980 seems farther away than 1990. Haha that’s totally me and I never knew there was a name for it!! Learn something new every day! :slight_smile:

[name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eve[/name] work nicely together by sound because they’re both sort of short and punchy, while still clearly feminine. I like both names a lot!

I hear you on the synesthesia thing, though. I don’t have it for letters, just looking at them, but I do have it for strings of sounds like words (also for music). [name]Margo[/name] is a purply-red name and [name]Eve[/name] is a light yellow-green. So it works, but is different. I was just thinking today how few names seem to go with [name]Ingrid[/name] (which for me, is like a grayish-blue). [name]Margo[/name] was one that occurred to me! Maybe that r and g have more to what is causing that than I realized, I’m not sure.

I love [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Greta[/name] together, I guess it might be weird with both coming from [name]Margaret[/name] but they are so different, I’m not sure people would pick up on it very often. Tough call. [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Pearl[/name] is also nice, pearl is the meaning of [name]Margaret[/name]/[name]Margo[/name]/[name]Greta[/name].

To me [name]Eva[/name] is much “darker” than [name]Eve[/name]: do you like [name]Margo[/name] and [name]Eva[/name]?

Best wishes!