[name_m]Jack[/name_m] [name_m]Peregrine[/name_m], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] [name_m]Johann[/name_m] and [name_f]Sybil[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] are on my list, and all three have a form of “[name_m]John[/name_m]” in their names (I used to have [name_u]Evan[/name_u] [name_m]Alastair[/name_m] too). Would be weird to have three kids with these names? I think [name_m]Jack[/name_m], [name_m]Johann[/name_m] and [name_f]Jane[/name_f] are not very similar (maybe [name_m]Jack[/name_m] and [name_f]Jane[/name_f] are, but [name_f]Jane[/name_f] would be middle name). [name_m]John[/name_m] is very meaningful to me, but I much prefer these alternatives.
I didn’t mind having [name_m]Jack[/name_m] and [name_u]Evan[/name_u], because are very different and gave me different vibes, but [name_m]Jack[/name_m], [name_m]Johann[/name_m] and [name_f]Jane[/name_f] start with J, and I’m struggling thinking it is too much. They would go by their first names, and I know in everyday life, middle names are not relevant.
Of course, I have a quite few names I love, as you can see in my signature, but currently this three are my favorites.
I think since only one has a variation of [name_m]John[/name_m] as a first name it’s definitely ok. I don’t think it’s something I would do mostly because I have lots of people I want to honour so I’d only want to use one name per important meaning. There is one exception to that rule, but I have never found a way to honour that person more than once because they have a difficult name to honour/get variants of (amusingly, the one that I will definitely use for her is [name_f]Jane[/name_f]!).
So basically, I wouldn’t because I need space to honour people but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you doing it, especially if you also just really like the names!
I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t want all my kids to share a name, in addition to the multiple family names I’d want to include.
On someone else’s family, I might do a double take (like when I read of a sibset with [name_m]Jack[/name_m] and [name_m]Ivan[/name_m]) and wonder if they are aware but that’s about the extent of my reaction.
Of course, I wouldn’t give three children like these names unless they were the only names my future partner and I agreed, or they only names I’d like at that moment. Of course, I also want to honor more people (although [name_m]Jack[/name_m], [name_m]Johann[/name_m] and [name_f]Jane[/name_f] (and [name_u]Evan[/name_u]) honor my father I wouldn’t mind at all having three children named after him), and probably my partner will want to honor people too, so this is just a “what if…”.
I know a couple, his name is [name_m]Santiago[/name_m], and their children are [name_u]Jaime[/name_u] and [name_m]Diego[/name_m], both variants of [name_m]Santiago[/name_m]. I find it lovely and clever.
I wouldn’t have even realized they all had variants of [name_m]John[/name_m] if you hadn’t mentioned it, honestly. Your average, everyday person might not even know that [name_m]Johann[/name_m] and [name_f]Jane[/name_f] are variants of [name_m]John[/name_m], either. Most people I know would not think twice about those name having any connection. I know they do, but I forget about it, hence not even noticing the connection myself.
I didn’t even notice, where only one is a first name also I think it’s perfectly fine. and they are pretty wide variations. It does bother me if someone were to, for example, use [name_m]Charles[/name_m], [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] and [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] for a sibset, where they all originate from the same meaning, but even that is something that historically was not uncommon. [name_m]Charles[/name_m] and [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] Bingley from Pride & Prejudice always bothered me as siblings.
