I was just thinking about my siblings, and wondered… What are your names and your siblings names? [name]Do[/name] you think your parents tried to choose names that are cohesive, or went with variety? [name]How[/name] did they choose your name?
I am [name]Arianne[/name] [name]Marie[/name]. I’m the third of four. My older brothers are [name]Eric[/name] [name]Christian[/name] and [name]Mark[/name] [name]Gregory[/name]. My little sister is [name]Carolina[/name] [name]Leigh[/name]. There is an eight year gap between me and [name]Mark[/name], and I have always thought it interesting that my brothers got common names, while my sister and I have spent our lives teaching others how to spell and pronounce our names. [name]Eric[/name] was named after a family member. [name]Mark[/name] was a name my parents liked and could agree upon. My name was chosen because they wanted to name me after my grandmother, Pollyanne, but knew they wanted something a little more unusual. My dad found my name in a baby book, and knew it was the one for me. My sister’s name is similar to mine, she was named after my mom ([name]Ina[/name] [name]Leigh[/name]).
I debated about the title for this thread, but couldn’t come up with a better explanation… I thought it may lead you guys to think I was asking about your parents names and siblings. [name]Feel[/name] free to include that information if you want! I just thought it would be interesting to discuss sibsets, since the idea is not necessarily new, but the term is, and I just wondered how much effect it had on berries names!
My siblings are [name]Rafael[/name], [name]Socorro[/name], [name]Daniel[/name], [name]David[/name], and then me [name]Raquel[/name]. My brother was named after my grandfather and his father, and my sister was named after my mom and grandmother. The only criteria for our names was to have names that blended into the American and Mexican culture.
My name is Maurilia [name]Renee[/name], and my siblings are [name]Daryl[/name] [name]Michael[/name], [name]Ella[/name] [name]Grace[/name], and [name]Evan[/name] [name]Grey[/name]. I was named after my grandmother (Maurilia Nilsa) and a close family friend, [name]Renee[/name]. My parents were planning on [name]Andrew[/name] for my brother, but I ruined it by naming our cat [name]Andy[/name] a few weeks before he was born, so they just decided to make him a junior. The only thing our names have in common is that they honor loved ones. When my little sister was concieved, 8 years after my brother was born, my mom knew she would have to have another kid because she didn’t want her to grow up alone, so she wasn’t too concerned about my sister’s name fitting in with ours. Her name was one my mom saw and liked. My baby brother [name]Evan[/name] ahd the most difficult naming process of all. They considered [name]Eldon[/name] and [name]Elliot[/name] (which I told them were too close to [name]Ella[/name]), and more family names. He almost ended up [name]Samuel[/name] [name]Paul[/name], just because they liked it, but at the last possible second, while filling out the forms, my dad decided that he wanted [name]Evan[/name] to have the same initials as his sister, so he changed it to [name]Evan[/name] [name]Grey[/name]. The [name]Grey[/name] spelling made my grandfather really angry because his middle name is [name]Grady[/name], and he felt like my dad purposefully changed it to make sure it didn’t honor him. But he got over it, lol.
My name is [name]Meagan[/name] and my brother’s name is [name]Joshua[/name]. We weren’t named after anyone, or anything like that. [name]Both[/name] of our names are/were very popular, and I guess my parents just liked them. My parents were set on naming me [name]Kaley[/name] [name]Nicole[/name], but thankfully decided against after I was born. My mom really wanted to name my brother [name]Corey[/name], but couldn’t get my dad on board.
I have two sisters, [name]Amy[/name] [name]Margaret[/name] and [name]Celeste[/name] Cebra. My name is [name]Imogen[/name] [name]Eve[/name].
My mum has said that she will always have slight regrets over my older sisters name ([name]Amy[/name]), but it was the only one she could get my dad to agree on. [name]Amy[/name] has said occasionally that she wishes her name wasn’t so plain and popular, she would have prefered [name]Amelia[/name]. After [name]Amy[/name], Mum choose both [name]Imogen[/name] and [name]Celeste[/name] without consulting Dad! (Apparently dad hated both). [name]Both[/name] [name]Margaret[/name] and Cebra are names from grandparents, but [name]Eve[/name] was simply because Mum liked the way the name flowed.
Mum said she never even thought about the ‘sibset’ concept and whether our names matched, it just wasn’t something that came into consideration.
I’m [name]Lucy[/name] [name]Catherine[/name]. DH and I have two girls.
I have twin brothers named [name]Matthew[/name] and [name]Ethan[/name]. I think our parents just liked the named [name]Ethan[/name] and [name]Matthew[/name].
I have 2 brothers and a sister. Their names are Stjepan (pronounced "STI-YEP-AHN), [name]Anton[/name] and [name]Adriana[/name].
My name is [name]Katarina[/name].
My parents are Croatian and gave us pretty Croatian sounding names (with the exception of [name]Adriana[/name])
I suppose I don’t really know if they go well together or not because I have never really thought about it - its just the way it has always been so it sounds perfectly normal to me
My name is [name]Angel[/name] [name]Starr[/name]. My sister is [name]Amber[/name] [name]Dawn[/name] and she’s 10 years younger than me and by brother is [name]Zachary[/name] [name]Nathaniel[/name] and he’s a year younger.
The doctors told my mother I was a boy so she was going to name me [name]Alexander[/name] [name]William[/name] but when I was born I was a girl. She had been on drugs heavily before she got pregnant and quit when she found out she was expecting. When I was born a girl, she said I was her little [name]Angel[/name] who was sent from heaven to save her life. So that’s why my name is [name]Angel[/name]. As far as I’m aware, they didn’t discuss names for my sister. I never heard them mention names. [name]Zachary[/name] was born when I was a year old and my mother couldn’t take care of him so a family friend adopted him. She named him [name]Nicholas[/name] when he was born and his adoptive family gave him the name he has.
My sister is 8 years older than me and is named [name]Melissa[/name] [name]Ann[/name]. I think they were just names they liked. My name is [name]Jennifer[/name] [name]Amanda[/name]. [name]Amanda[/name] was after a song my dad liked. It was going to be my first name but they couldn’t think of a middle name they liked with it. My sister actually ended up naming me! My name would have been [name]Christopher[/name] [name]Michael[/name] if I were a boy, at least according to my mom. They always “knew” both of us were girls so they never really discussed boy names
I’m [name]Bryan[/name] [name]Scott[/name], it’s my father’s name inverted ([name]Scott[/name] [name]Bryan[/name] -> [name]Bryan[/name] [name]Scott[/name]).
My sister’s name is [name]Caity[/name] [name]Lynn[/name]. They loved the name [name]Caitlyn[/name] but thought it was too popular, so just split it up. Plus, it would honor my mother because her middle name is [name]Lynn[/name] as well.
My brother’s name is Brayton [name]Scott[/name]. It’s particularly uninspired. They made up Brayton using the letters from [name]Bryan[/name], and then just duplicated the middle name. So, essentially…we have the same name. Lol.
My youngest sister is a bit different because she’s my half sister. Her name is [name]Lexi[/name] [name]Brynn[/name]. They just really liked [name]Lexi[/name] (but for some reason, I remember begging them to spell it [name]Lexie[/name]). And [name]Brynn[/name] is a combination of all our names - [name]Rachel[/name] Lynn, [name]Larry[/name] Brian, Bryan [name]Scott[/name], [name]Caity[/name] Lynn, Brayton [name]Scott[/name], and my stepsiblings Brianna [name]Elaine[/name] and [name]Gage[/name] Bryant.
I am [name]Ashley[/name] [name]Marie[/name]. No family significance there… my uncle is [name]Bruce[/name] [name]Ashley[/name], and his brother is [name]Ashley[/name] [name]Bruce[/name], but my mom insists I wasn’t named after either of them, haha.
I have three siblings–[name]John[/name] [name]Robert[/name], [name]Rebecca[/name] [name]Eileen[/name], and [name]Natalie[/name] [name]Ruth[/name] ([name]Johnny[/name], [name]Becca[/name], and [name]Natalie[/name]/[name]Tallie[/name]). [name]Johnny[/name] is a III, and my mom says [name]Eileen[/name] was sort of after her mom since [name]Arlene[/name] and [name]Eileen[/name] sort of sound similar. [name]Natalie[/name] [name]Ruth[/name] was named after my grandmother, [name]Ruth[/name] [name]Mae[/name].
I always thought [name]Ashley[/name], [name]John[/name], and [name]Rebecca[/name] went together really well. [name]Even[/name] though they’re all a bit trendy, they all have a bit of a classic feel to them. When [name]Natalie[/name] came along everyone thought our family was already complete… I do think [name]Natalie[/name] still fits in but it feels a bit different to me stylistically. She was almost [name]Melissa[/name] [name]Jo[/name], which I think would be a lot more dated and a lot less classy than the rest of our names, haha. So I am kind of glad that she is [name]Natalie[/name] instead.
My older brother’s name is [name_m]Austin[/name_m] [name_u]Lee[/name_u]. He was almost named [name_m]Tanner[/name_m].
My name is [name_f]Amanda[/name_f] [name_f]Beth[/name_f]. I was almost named [name_u]Haley[/name_u] and [name_u]Harley[/name_u].
And then my younger brother is [name_u]Tyler[/name_u] [name_m]William[/name_m].
Nothing too interesting, haha. All fairly popular names.
My mother’s name is [name_f]Abigail[/name_f] [name_f]Louise[/name_f] and she goes by both [name_u]Abby[/name_u] and [name_f]Gail[/name_f], depending on who’s speaking with her. She’s always preferred [name_u]Abby[/name_u], and loved the idea of being “[name_u]Abby[/name_u] and [name_f]Aggie[/name_f]” - she always envisioned me growing to be her best friend, which came true. I’ve been called [name_f]Aggie[/name_f] since the day I was born…sometimes I don’t even answer to [name_f]Agatha[/name_f], completely forgetting that it’s my full name. [name_f]Louise[/name_f] was also my Grandmother’s middle name. She chose [name_f]Renee[/name_f] because it sounded elegant and classy, [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] was my paternal Grandmother’s middle name. [name_m]Brandon[/name_m] and [name_m]Adam[/name_m] were both quite popular names at the time, and were the only names my parents could agree on. My mom says she regrets giving in, and really wanted to use the name [name_m]Jonah[/name_m] [name_m]Wesley[/name_m] (both times). She always said that it sounds like one person named the girls ([name_f]Aggie[/name_f] and [name_f]Renee[/name_f]), another the boys ([name_m]Brandon[/name_m] and [name_m]Adam[/name_m])…so she definitely put some thought into the sibset!
My father’s biological children are [name_f]Tabitha[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] and [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m] [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], and I’m unsure of the story behind the choices. They have half-siblings named [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] and [name_f]Helena[/name_f], all four having three syllable names. I wonder if that was intentional?
I am an only child and so is DH, so I have no story there. But my father was 1 of 5: [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_m]William[/name_m], [name_m]David[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_f]Ruth[/name_f]. Very classic, I think!
Well, I’m my mom’s oldest. They had decided on [name_u]Andrea[/name_u] [name_u]Devon[/name_u] early, but my dad heard the song “Hollyann” by [name_m]Boston[/name_m] and loved it. My mom still wanted [name_u]Andrea[/name_u], but did say if they picked Hollyann I should have a B middle so my initials would be the same as my dad who is [name_m]Harry[/name_m] [name_m]Benjamin[/name_m] III. My mom was all loopy after she had me via c-section and my dad said “She looks like a Hollyann” and filled out my birth certificate with Hollyann [name_f]Beth[/name_f] before my mum was lucid. She wasn’t very pleased at the time, but says now that she likes my name better because [name_u]Andrea[/name_u] was more common. And I am glad, too. I like having a more unique name. If I had been a boy I would have been [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_u]Jay[/name_u] ([name_m]Thomas[/name_m] for my Pepere (ggfather) [name_m]Dewey[/name_m] [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_u]Jay[/name_u] for my dad’s nickname).
My sister, two years younger, is [name_f]Marissa[/name_f] [name_f]Jayne[/name_f]. They just liked [name_f]Marissa[/name_f], though my [name_f]Nanny[/name_f] (ggmother) thought it was after her ([name_f]Mary[/name_f]) and my mum never had the heart to correct her. [name_f]Jayne[/name_f] is for my dad’s nn [name_u]Jay[/name_u]. If she had been a boy, she would have been [name_m]Benjamin[/name_m] [name_m]Harry[/name_m], the reverse of my dad.
My youngest sister, two and a half years younger, is adopted. She is [name_f]Alisha[/name_f] [name_f]Nicole[/name_f]. From what she’s told me, [name_f]Alisha[/name_f] is after a soap opera character. [name_f]Nicole[/name_f] is after an older half-sister.
My dad has a son, my half-brother, who is 11 years older than me. He didn’t know us (my dad didn’t even know his mum was pregnant) until he was about 25. So obviously my dad had nothing to do with his name, [name_m]Shon[/name_m] [name_u]Michael[/name_u].
My name is [name_f]Marni[/name_f] [name_f]Liane[/name_f]. [name_f]Marni[/name_f] is after my GF [name_m]Morie[/name_m], and [name_f]Liane[/name_f] is after an aunt [name_f]Lena[/name_f].
My brother is [name_m]Ilan[/name_m] [name_u]Michael[/name_u]. [name_m]Ilan[/name_m] is after GF [name_u]Ira[/name_u].
I think [name_f]Marni[/name_f] and [name_m]Ilan[/name_m] work well together - I know my parents wanted Hebrew names, and that is what they came up with.
My Dad has three other children as well, they are [name_f]Tara[/name_f], [name_u]Darren[/name_u] and [name_f]Shana[/name_f]. They don’t match as much with our names, but they fit together ([name_f]IMO[/name_f]), and I am not sure who they are names after.
My brother’s name is [name_u]Shane[/name_u]. I’m not exactly sure why or how they came up with it but I think it has to do with my father’s name being [name_u]Shaun[/name_u].
My name is [name_f]Kara[/name_f]. My dad suggested it to my mother and she loved it. They named me after [name_f]Kara[/name_f] Hultgreen who was a lieutenant in the [name_u]Navy[/name_u]. She had passed away a few years before I was born.
I’m [name]Cassandra[/name] [name]Sarah[/name] first name chosen as a way to get to [name]Cassie[/name] and my middle was given to honor my great grandmother. My brother is 3 years younger than me and he’s [name]Timothy[/name] [name]Alexander[/name] he was named after my mom’s brother who passed away before he was born but he also shares a name with my dad. He got his middle because that’s what my dad wanted his first name to be.
I’m [name_f]Ana[/name_f] [name_f]Caroline[/name_f]. In [name_u]Brazil[/name_u], we use both our names when we have them. I like them both. Some people call me [name_f]Ana[/name_f], and some call me [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], and I think both fit me well. My brother, who is 10 years younger than me, is named [name_m]Henrique[/name_m]. It’s our version of [name_m]Henry[/name_m]. =P
They just liked his name. With mine, my father wanted just [name_f]Ana[/name_f], and my mother always wanted a [name_f]Caroline[/name_f]. So they just put them together. Democratic I guess lol.
So, in English, we would be [name_f]Anna[/name_f] and [name_m]Henry[/name_m] or [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] and [name_m]Henry[/name_m]. I think they did a great job.
My father has 5 siblings. They are Luis, Isabel, Lucia, Maria, Fernando, Edmundo (him) and Laura. All classic and family names. My mother has 5 siblings as well. They are Ricardo, Cristiane, Cristiene, Cristina (I know -.-), Eudes and Margaret. My poor aunt Margaret always hated that she was not named Cristine or Cristiana. ahah
I have a half-sister and half-brother - [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] and [name_u]James[/name_u]. I don’t think they have middle names since they have never mentioned them. I however have two - [name_f]Sophi[/name_f]£ Gr@ce M@rg@ret. [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] was my paternal grandmother’s middle name; [name_f]Grace[/name_f] was my Mum’s choice for my first, but didn’t want people calling me [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] so it was relegated to the middle spot; [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] is a family name on both sides.
My sister’s name is similar to mine, she was named after my mom ([name]Ina[/name] [name]Leigh[/name]).