Sibling names - does they need to match each other

General Name Discussion
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There’s one thing that bugs me. Why people are so work out to find perfect sibling name?

I don’t think they need to match. I am not talking about [name]Claudette[/name] or [name]Bernadette[/name], or [name]Victoria[/name] or [name]Sophia[/name], or [name]Declan[/name] and [name]Duncan[/name]. I am talking about parents wish to have relatively similar names.

Why [name]Isabelle[/name] can’t have sisters [name]Dahlia[/name], [name]Kylie[/name], [name]Eva[/name] or [name]Elisabette[/name]? Why [name]James[/name] can’t have bothers [name]Eric[/name], [name]August[/name], [name]Soren[/name], [name]Alex[/name] or [name]Elliott[/name]?

I mean. If mother and father love all these names, why they need to give up some of them just because they are little different than others?

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Of course siblings names doesn’t have to match.
I have to children yet, but I think parents ask for names to match with the siblings name because that’s the type of name they’re after. Obviously no [name]Isabelle[/name] & [name]Anabelle[/name], but rather the “feeling” of [name]Isabelle[/name]. Maybe something french sounding like [name]Rosalie[/name] or [name]Victoire[/name]? Or a princessy name like [name]Anastasia[/name] or [name]Wilhelmina[/name]? There are just my guessing though.
I don’t think siblings names have to match at all, I know me and my siblings name doesn’t (to me, at least). But I wouldn’t want two totally different names either, like [name]Jacob[/name] and [name]Hikaru[/name] (ethnic wise) or [name]Emma[/name] and [name]Renesmee[/name] (popularity wise).

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I have to children yet, but I think parents ask for names to match with the siblings name because that’s the type of name they’re after.

You mean, they want suggestions?

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Yeah. I’ve seen quite a few ask for “names that goes with XXX”. That’s what I meant, but maybe I misunderstood you?

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Some parents simply like names to be similar in style, and quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with that.

My siblings and I are [name]John[/name], [name]Peter[/name], [name]Elizabeth[/name] and [name]Margaret[/name]. They “fit” together. I do think it would be slightly odd if we were [name]John[/name], [name]Peter[/name], [name]Elizabeth[/name] and [name]Destiny[/name]!

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I totally agree with this. Although, I do tend to think this just happens and that most people seem to have a particular style, e.g. my boy’s style is very much biblical boy’s names, while my girl’s names are long, frilly and princessy. However, I think it’s important to to have sibling names that mesh well together, as I can’t imagine [name]Tinsley[/name] having a sister named [name]Catherine[/name] and a brother named [name]Charles[/name]. It’s not that it is wrong, name your children what you like but people will make judgements and later on in life little [name]Tinsley[/name] might want to know why her brother and sister got rather classic and sophisticated names but she didn’t…