Hey Berries, What are your thoughts on sibling names that start with the name letter? [name_m]How[/name_m] close is too close? Would you ever name all your kids names that started with the same letter? Or, would you do all different letters? Maybe something in between?
Would this sib-set work: [name_u]Seth[/name_u], [name_u]Sage[/name_u] and [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]? What about names that have the same origin?(E.g. [name_f]Joanna[/name_f], [name_m]Jackson[/name_m] and [name_m]Ian[/name_m]?) What about rhyming names? (E.g. [name_f]Thora[/name_f], [name_f]Cora[/name_f] and [name_f]Flora[/name_f]?) Would you ever do something along the lines of, [name_u]Addison[/name_u] and [name_u]Adair[/name_u], or [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f] and [name_f]Katharine[/name_f] (Names that both can be shorted to the same thing, [name_f]Addie[/name_f] and [name_f]Kate[/name_f])?
To me, the best named sibsets have the same “feel” to the names or as someone else here on NB has noted-- you can tell that the same parents named the kids.
The same letter is okay for a few kids, but I find it somewhat annoying for large families (i.e. the Duggars and J). I definitely do not like the rhyming names (plus as a parent, you get these mixed up too easily) for sibs. I’m not crazy about your other proposals either. [name_u]Seth[/name_u] and [name_u]Sage[/name_u] could go together, but seem incongruous next to the classic, elegant, and somewhat medieval, [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]. The same origin could be okay if the names are pretty different, but I think [name_f]Joanna[/name_f], [name_m]Jackson[/name_m], and [name_m]Ian[/name_m] are too similar. I do like the similar meaning though as a way to unite a sibset-- for instance, [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] and [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] (both “gift of God”). The same nicknames often make the names too similar for me for the most part-- although I’d be okay with [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] and [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] (both could be nn [name_u]Kit[/name_u]) because they are different enough to stand on their own.
I dont think it matters if they start with the same letter; you could have an [name_f]Emiliana[/name_f] and an [name_u]Eden[/name_u], too completely different names
[name_u]Seth[/name_u], [name_u]Sage[/name_u] and [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m] would work just fine, as long as [name_u]Sage[/name_u] was male
[name_f]Joanna[/name_f], [name_m]Jackson[/name_m] and [name_m]Ian[/name_m] are too close for me, [name_f]Joanna[/name_f] is too much like [name_m]Jackson[/name_m], [name_m]Ian[/name_m] is too much like the -anna and -son parts of the previous names
I personally dislike sibsets that match, but my mom went to school with twins named Mimika and [name_f]Lilika[/name_f] and no one ever got them mixed up so its not really a problem
Same meanings dont matter in my opinion, most people dont even know what their name means and I also think its kind of nice
[name_u]Addison[/name_u] and [name_u]Adair[/name_u] would be fine, but I find [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f] and [name_f]Katharine[/name_f] to be too much alike, with or without nicknames
Personally I’d avoid it. I guess if they all have the same initial, then I could look past it. But I dislike seeing say, [name_f]Arianna[/name_f], [name_u]Ruby[/name_u], and [name_u]Riley[/name_u] as a sibset.
I’d prefer to avoid kids having the same initial if I can, but I wouldn’t rule out a name I loved just because it started with the same letter as another child’s name.
I personally dislike deliberate “themed” sibsets which all start with the same letter, like the Duggar J or the Kardashian K, but I know lots of people find it cute and a nice link between kids. To each their own, I say.
I wouldn’t do rhyming names like [name_f]Cora[/name_f], [name_f]Dora[/name_f] and [name_f]Flora[/name_f] as I do think they’re far too close in sound and together would get confusing and sound very twee, but I think your other sibset examples are fine. Not that many people “in the real world”, as it were, would notice things like the shared origin of [name_f]Joanna[/name_f], [name_m]Jackson[/name_m] and [name_m]Ian[/name_m] so I don’t think it’s a big deal.
I like sibling names that all start with the same letter, as long as they aren’t too close but at the same time don’t clash with each other.
Names of the same origin…it really depends. [name_f]Pearl[/name_f] and [name_f]Daisy[/name_f] are both forms of [name_f]Margaret[/name_f], but I think they could work as sister names. But I couldn’t have a son names [name_m]Charles[/name_m] and his sister named [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]. But if, by ‘origin’, you mean nationality, then I think it’s prefectly fine to use, say, all [name_m]French[/name_m] names or all [name_m]German[/name_m] names for siblings.
Rhyming names, no. Not for me. It would be kind of confusing, I think. Also, it seems really unoriginal.
And, no, if they could have the same nn, definitely not.
I do like names to ‘match’ or, you know, go together well. But I don’t want overly similar sibling names. Same initial is fine, same nationality, fine. Otherwise, it’s too similar, imo.