Do you consider if your kids names go together?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, as a mom of 3DC I gave considerable thought to how the names sound with oldest DC’s first and middle and considered how they sound together. So, DC’s sound nice together but I’d like to think that they aren’t overly-matchy and are individually distinctive similar to: Miranda, Alexander and Elise.

DH has a matchy name w/ his only sibling, a brother similar to David and Daniel.

I do t like what I call all-over-the place sibling names, either; makes me think that the parents ran out of names. We know a family with Renee, Cecilia and Audrey. Renee stands out.

They all sound like French names to me.

We chose French names for our kids that go with their French surname. We chose names that English speakers could pronounce. The three girls' names above would fit that criteria too.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three countries of origin, so my kids have three personal names, one for each. They chose which name to go by. One chose their Asian name, the other chose their European name. Our various countries have very different naming traditions, so we just made our own. My European uncle has nine personal names, so we're definitely not maxing out.

Your European uncle does not have 9 personal names.

My husband has more names the King Charles.

My dog has more names than your husband and King Charles put together.

My dog had one official name and about 27 nicknames.

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Yes in the sense that they are both multi-syllabic Hispanic names that can also be easily pronounced by English speakers. Not the same letter or anything though.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three countries of origin, so my kids have three personal names, one for each. They chose which name to go by. One chose their Asian name, the other chose their European name. Our various countries have very different naming traditions, so we just made our own. My European uncle has nine personal names, so we're definitely not maxing out.

Your European uncle does not have 9 personal names.

My husband has more names the King Charles.

My dog has more names than your husband and King Charles put together.

My dog had one official name and about 27 nicknames.

Same

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Anonymous wrote:Asking out of curiosity...We have friends whose children have wildly different names - like one child's name sounds like it was taken from the register of the Mayflower and the other sounds like it would be voted #1 most popular name on kibbutz in Israel. One of our friends named their two sons the most white bread American names you can think of and gave their daughter a name with Japanese origins. Did you consider if your children's names would go together or did names with similar attributes (for instance, length, musicality, from the same region/culture) appeal to you or were you drawn to particular names even if they didn't have similar attributes?

Is one parent Japanese and the other American? If so, there might be a naming tradition that you’re just not aware of.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, as a mom of 3DC I gave considerable thought to how the names sound with oldest DC’s first and middle and considered how they sound together. So, DC’s sound nice together but I’d like to think that they aren’t overly-matchy and are individually distinctive similar to: Miranda, Alexander and Elise.

DH has a matchy name w/ his only sibling, a brother similar to David and Daniel.

I do t like what I call all-over-the place sibling names, either; makes me think that the parents ran out of names. We know a family with Renee, Cecilia and Audrey. Renee stands out.

They all sound like French names to me.

We chose French names for our kids that go with their French surname. We chose names that English speakers could pronounce. The three girls' names above would fit that criteria too.

+1. These don't stand out to me in any noticeable way to me and seem to mostly follow a theme.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, as a mom of 3DC I gave considerable thought to how the names sound with oldest DC’s first and middle and considered how they sound together. So, DC’s sound nice together but I’d like to think that they aren’t overly-matchy and are individually distinctive similar to: Miranda, Alexander and Elise.

DH has a matchy name w/ his only sibling, a brother similar to David and Daniel.

I do t like what I call all-over-the place sibling names, either; makes me think that the parents ran out of names. We know a family with Renee, Cecilia and Audrey. Renee stands out.

We also have three and had the same considerations. Plus, our taste in names didn’t change that much over the 4.5 years from kid one to kid three. Their last name (and DH’s) is long and German, so we had to keep the names relatively simple. I knew a family of three girls all with very traditionally feminine names (Cecilia, etc.) and all had similar nicknames: Cici, Gigi, and Mimi. Nope!

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My kids names overmatch. Both boys and we truly only had 2 boy names we liked. And they happened to start with the same letter and both had inevitable nicknames that sound overly matchy. Like Betsy and Bonnie, or Mandy and Maggie.

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Anonymous wrote:Asking out of curiosity...We have friends whose children have wildly different names - like one child's name sounds like it was taken from the register of the Mayflower and the other sounds like it would be voted #1 most popular name on kibbutz in Israel. One of our friends named their two sons the most white bread American names you can think of and gave their daughter a name with Japanese origins. Did you consider if your children's names would go together or did names with similar attributes (for instance, length, musicality, from the same region/culture) appeal to you or were you drawn to particular names even if they didn't have similar attributes?

Three children and that was never a consideration. One of us is Jewish, so it was important not to name another living relative and to use the first initial of a recently passed relative (so if Larlo died it would be appropriate to use Larla or Lewis or Lawrence or Lucas or Lydia). We also looked at first/middle/last initial, so that nothing bad was spelled, and potential nicknames. How their name went with their siblings name? Never came up

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Didn't occur to me with # 2, but it was a passing thought before # 3 arrived (not a deciding factor). The big thing for naming # 3 was feeling the need to use of family name; unintentionally out first two daughters have family names (one's name is the same as one of my aunts and the other is a names shared by a great aunt of DH and one of mine). We didn't set out to honor anyone with the first two, but it was intentional with the third, sort of providing a similar sense of belonging that her sisters might feel.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an only, so it didn't have to worry about this, but my DD is friends with a Kayleigh whose sisters are Evelyn and Meredith. It's kind of a head-scratcher - they are all lovely kids, but the name Kayleigh strikes me as very Teen-Mom while the others are kind of stuffy.

Those are all very common names in my dad's school.

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