Is this a 'no-no'?

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Registered: 02-11-2004
Is this a 'no-no'?
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Sun, 05-01-2005 - 1:44am

Is this a 'no-no'?



  • Is it a 'no-no' to have rhyming sibling names?
  • For example: Gray and Renae or Camille and Neil
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  • Rhyming is perfectly acceptable
  • Don't have rhyming names


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Registered: 11-04-2003
Sun, 05-01-2005 - 7:41am

I voted don't have rhyming names but that's because I tend to trip on names that are too similar and I already mess up my kids names when I call them! . If they rhymed too, I'd be sunk.

If you're not the type that messes up the kids names when you call them, I suppose rhyming would be alright.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sun, 05-01-2005 - 8:42am

My younger sister and I "accidentally" have rhyming names. My name is Michelle and hers is Ellen. My parents swear that they didn't realize it when they named my sister, but our NNs rhyme. My family has always called me Shelley and my sister is Ellie. As we got older we became Shel and El. That's what family still calls us.

I voted to not do it because I think it's too cutesy, but if you do do it it's not the end of the world.

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Mon, 05-02-2005 - 12:47pm

I couldn't pick one of the choices to vote

in some cases names that rhyme would be acceptable, in other cases it would sound too deliberate and cutesty. It just depends on the names. each situation on that would have to be judged on its own

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Registered: 09-25-2003
Mon, 05-02-2005 - 5:50pm
I have some good friends who have 3 adorable daughters (5, 3 & not yet 1), their oldest is Emmalynn, their next daughter is Brenna- when they had thier baby they were trying to think of names that they loved, and that would be unusual and pretty, their baby's name is Kenna. Obviously Kenna & Brenna rhyme, but so far there has been no confusion, the names fit the girls perfectly. I love thier names- and at first I thought "Hey- they rhyme, you can't do that!" but now I love it, and think it is cool.
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