Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how similar is too similar for siblings names? For example- [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Mabel[/name] or [name]Oliver[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name]. Names like [name]Asher[/name] and [name]Archer[/name] seem to be far too similar to be used in the same family together, but could you have brothers named [name]Oliver[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name]? What about [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Asher[/name]?
they are similiar. I find [name]Oliver[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name] too matchy matchy. [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Asher[/name] seem fine to me.
What’s wrong with [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Asher[/name]? I don’t get that. [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Aspen[/name] might be too much tree theme (but its pretty subtle there anyway…) but [name]Asher[/name] isn’t a plant, they don’t start or end with the same sound. I sort of like syllable count matching though.
[name]Oliver[/name] and [name]Arthur[/name] is close but I honestly can’t say they’re sooo close because I quite like [name]Arthur[/name] and I dislike [name]Oliver[/name] so how interchangeable can they be? Swapping one or the other out for [name]Owen[/name] or [name]Alan[/name] would cut the repetitive ending sound though.
I would generally try to avoid matching first initials and matching end sounds. My sister fervently disagrees - she things end sounds matching gives a cohesion of style. She doesn’t match initials though.
oops, you’re right, I actually did mean [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Aspen[/name]- is the theme too strong? What about [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Violet[/name]?
I wonder this myself. I love nature names – [name]Marigold[/name], [name]Iris[/name], [name]Juniper[/name]! But I don’t know if I would dare to name my kids along such an obvious theme…