Too many N's for a sibset?

Most of my favorite boy names end with the letter n:
Jensen
Hadrian
Benjamin
Rowan
Orion
etc…

Is it too much to have more than 1 of them in a sibset? I ideally want about 3 children and if I have all boys most of my favorite names end in n and I don’t know if they work together. I love the names on their own and on paper but do you guys think it is fine to use more than 1 in a sibset or are they too close together?

I think it’s so okay. Use the names you love, I say, over all else!!!

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I think it depends on the syllables and other sounds in the names. For example [name_m]Hadrian[/name_m], [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] sound good together. However, [name_m]Jenson[/name_m] and [name_m]Weston[/name_m] would maybe sound too similar because of the repeating s’s too.

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It’s fine, IMO! I think my biggest concern with matching sibsets is that they can tie you down, keeping you from using names you really love.

But if the names you love just happen to have something in common, by all means, go for it! :heart:

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personally, I don’t think it matters as long as they don’t rhyme or are too close together.

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I think it’s ok. But also I’m a little neurotic about building sibsets and I don’t like any repeat start or end letters. But that’s my own special brand of crazy.

Like all those boys could be brothers and I’d have no qualms. And it’s such a subtle thing that you could add an outlier and no one would know. Unless you had like 6 boys or something and one of them was like Leslie or Otto. (Why those are my two choices idk lol) and all the others were ur list.

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I think it’s fine. Lots of boys names end in an N and the sounds of those you love are quite distinctive and separate from each other, so they don’t sound too much

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I think you could make it work as long as the names didn’t share too many other similar sounds. I think once you start getting past 3 “n” ending names it might start sounding a little too matchy matchy when said all together. But saying that loving each name individually is far more important!

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I only having one sibling. But both our names have the same ending (same last four letters). It’s never been a big deal.
I think more than two siblings with the same ending would be more noticeable and could be seen as a deliberate choice or pattern. But it’s not a deal breaker. If those are the names you like then I say go for it.

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I think it’s ok, but I understand your predicament. There are so many boys names that end in -n, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.

By total accident, both of our boys have names that end in -n. They both have family names and it just happened. I do have slight concern now that if we have a third, do we have to give he/she a name that ends in an -n too?

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It’s fine. Many boys names ends this way.

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I think it really depends the syllables!

I wouldn’t bat an eye at a [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] and [name_u]Ryan[/name_u] or a [name_m]Ben[/name_m] and [name_u]Ryan[/name_u] , but I would probably think it was too much if it were [name_m]Ken[/name_m] , [name_m]Ben[/name_m] and [name_m]Len[/name_m]

I think [name_u]Jensen[/name_u] , [name_m]Hadrian[/name_m] , [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u], [name_u]Orion[/name_u] and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] are all stylistically different and unique . They also don’t share beginning letters

However I think [name_m]Hadrian[/name_m] and [name_u]Julian[/name_u] would be too close !

[name_f]My[/name_f] sister and I both share names that end in an A and we have never had a problem

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Since like a third of boy’s names end in N now I think it is fine unless the names rhyme or something.

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