Not in an obvious way. They sound fine together to me but they're not necessarily obviously a group to an outsider, I guess?

Older kid has:
First name: Family name of Swedish origin
Second name: Family name of Gaelic origin that is also a Japanese name (and could also be a French or English name come to think of it)
Goes by: second name

Younger kid has:
First name: Family name of English origin
Second name: Japanese name that is also an American English name (also a Jewish name I think?)
Goes by: slightly unusual nickname of first name


Family culture is white (Swedish/English/German) American and Japanese American.

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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.

PP you replied to. Sigh. What sort of pleasure do you get in writing this? I am responding to the OP. There is no reason for me to lie. Go away.

I don’t know why you would say that but your uncle does not have 9 personal names and no one would believe such a ridiculous thing.
Is his name John Allen Thomas Richard Michael Nathanial Stephen Alexander Benedict?

Try not to let your ignorance outsmart your manners. Calling someone a liar is a pretty serious accusation, even where we are faceless strangers.

https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/royals/european-royals-a4033706.html

No. I make sure they don't sound bad together, can be yelled together on the playground, and don't sound too much alike. No Tom and Jerry's, no Larry and Kerry's, no Sam and Ella's. Otherwise, no, we didn't care if they "matched."

My kids have names that are of a similar wavelength. However, my Irish cousin and her Puerto Rican husband gave one kid a strongly Irish name and one a popular Puerto Rican name (eg Connor and Diego) and they actually sound really cute together. I thought it was really cute that they did that.

Yes ... drives me crazy when siblings' names are wildly different in style. Though I realize my mental "rules" aren't the same as everyone else's!

I have three kids and I would say they have three classic names.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't need them to go together, but I needed them to not sound bad together. Or sound too much alike.

Our first was Sebastian, and we nixed Sabrina for our daughter cause they were too much alike.

This. Although, then we realized Abby and Daddy sound pretty similar when someone is calling one of them.

Yes

Not the same first letter or a paired name like Tom and Jerry.

Moreso a similar style so Elizabeth and Caroline for example vs Elisabeth and Kinsley.

The thought never crossed my mind.

Ours are both Irish-American names.

We know a family with 4 kids (3 girls and a boy) named

Evangelina
Jaqueline
Gwendolyn
Bo

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, all 3 of my kids' names go together.

That is so corny.

+1. OP, you're not on a reality show.

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.

I wanted names that had about the same level of “common”-ness. Like, my friend growing up was named Richelle and her siblings (same generation, all Millennials so no big age gaps driving different naming trends) were Sara and William. Unusual name with two more common names. It seemed weird.

I have a (female) cousin who’s name wouldn’t be out of place on one of those “all-name” lacrosse team lists https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/the-2018-men-s-and-women-s-lacrosse-all-name-teams/50845 and her brother, my other cousin, is Thomas.

Yes and no. We pull from our families and our own heritage so the names would "go" from that perspective, but I strongly dislike when the names seem planned to "match" - like all the first names start with J or something. I think about what it will be like to shout both names on the playground so that it's not an accidental tongue twister. But kids aren't a matched set and won't have their names said side-by-side for more than a quarter of their life, so I think people get a bit too hung up on this aspect of naming.

Aside from the intentional alliteration, I think the focus on "does it go with Larla" is mostly just people trying to narrow down choices and looking for any reason to cut names off the list.

Our kids sorta go together in the sense that they are generally of the same genre but not really.

Example
Eloise, Nicolette and Claire.

We had a 3rd and considered something really different but it didn't really work

Yes, the names go together. Not like the Duggars or anything.

But they're something like Collette, Sabine, Veronique and Gabriel.