Do you try to match your children's n...

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Mon, 07-09-2007 - 11:02am

Do you try to match your children's names?



  • No, not at all
  • Yes, by all starting with same letter
  • Yes, by rhyming them
  • Yes, by all having same/similar beginnings or endings
  • Other


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Mon, 07-09-2007 - 5:56pm
Thanks...it suits him, and that makes it worth all the angst we put into deciding. (But it's definitely one of those names that we find we explain pretty much every time we introduce him, so I suppose we've set him up for a lifetime of saying "like William Penn." But I think he'll be able to handle it...he definitely has all the gusto he needs!)
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Registered: 07-12-2006
Mon, 07-09-2007 - 11:40pm
I went with other.
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Registered: 04-06-2007
Wed, 07-11-2007 - 12:43pm
All mine have 3 syllables and an S in there somewhere. I'm so glad I'm done because it would be really hard finding another name to use. :)


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Wed, 07-11-2007 - 2:27pm

I personnally wouldn't try to match names for kids, but I would want them to sound nice together. If there were 2 names that I liked that ended up seeming matchy, I might still use them though. I really like A and L names for both boys and girls, so it might be hard for me to cross some of them off the list just because 2 of them might have names beginning with the same letter. I wouldn't feel that they would all have to start with the same letter though even if 2 of them happened to.

DH really likes names ending with -lyn. His grandmother's name is Gwendolyn, which we would like to use. My grandmother's name is Evelyn which we both would like to use, but I think we may just use Eve instead (or maybe Evelyn as a mn). He also likes Rosalyn (I'm not sure which spelling he likes) but it is going to get nixed since there is no family connection.

Do pet names count? I have a coworker who has 2 dogs and 2 cats.
The dogs are Bailey and Barney (both boys) and the cats are Bella and and Baxter.

I like all their names and they are really cute together (esp for pets!)

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