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Post by MichyM on Oct 26, 2020 17:59:09 GMT
Just curious. I have a new-ish friend who has 4 kids, all their names begin with the same letter. I honestly don't recall any personal friends who have named their kids similarly. I'm curious what prompted you and your spouse to choose named with the same first letter? Is it a letter you love? Does the letter have special meaning to you? Do you find yourself misspeaking their names frequently? I am named after my dad (after several miscarriages between my older sister and me my parents thought they'd never have a son, so I was 'it'  I have the feminine version of his first and middle names. My older sister and younger brother had the same initials (TAN) and I assume that was done deliberately, though I don't think I ever asked either of my parents about it. Their initials were not related to anyone else in the family, just each other. I have one child. His middle name was a given since my dad died suddenly during my pregnancy...is it my dad's (and my maiden) last name. First name was ultimately chosen by my ex, DS's father. We couldn't agree 100% on a girl or boy's name, so we decided if it was a boy he'd get first choice and if it was a girl I'd get my first choice. If I'd gotten my choice son would have been named Max (after my great grandfather), and if he had been a girl it would have been Kelsey. Who's next? |
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Post by artsyk on Oct 26, 2020 18:00:47 GMT
No. My best friend's kids both start with L. They also couldn't have certain letters that his brothers and sisters have for their children.  |
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Oct 26, 2020 18:03:42 GMT
My sister and I have the same first initial if you go by our legal names; I think that was just coincidence of the names they liked. We also have the same middle name. It isn't in honor of anyone, so I'm not sure if that was intentional or just a lack of creativity. Makes initialling your stuff useless.  |
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Post by Belle on Oct 26, 2020 18:05:30 GMT
No, my kids do not share the same first letter in their names. My mom, her brother and her parents all had names that started with the same letter.
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 26, 2020 18:05:40 GMT
No, they don't. But, all the girl granddaughters in DH's family have names beginning with K. I had the second granddaughter and never gave it a thought. DH's brother and sister named a total of 3 more girls with K names. It annoyed me, frankly.
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 26, 2020 18:06:13 GMT
No they don't and on purpose. I grew up with that crap and chose not to repeat it after being called Brooke (my youngest sister's name) all the time.
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Post by 4cboysmommy on Oct 26, 2020 18:06:56 GMT
My kids do. We originally were only going to have two kids and the two boys names we could agree on both started with the same letter. When surprise child three came along and we found out it was a boy we decided to just keep going so three and four also start with the same letter.
We do mix them up occasionally and my SIL always labels their gifts 1, 2, 3, 4 😂
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Post by psiluvu on Oct 26, 2020 18:07:38 GMT
No my kids initials are P, same name as my father, middle names after DH's father and step father and a S, her name is most often a last name but we like it as a first name
I have a cousin who has 6 kids all B names odd IMO
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Post by withapea on Oct 26, 2020 18:14:14 GMT
No DH and I have the same initials as does oldest Dd ( because I was set on her name ). Our youngest purposefully does not have the same initial because we didn’t want to be a theme family.
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Post by epeanymous on Oct 26, 2020 18:20:33 GMT
I actually rejected names expressly so that none of my kids would have the same first initial. I didn't want to go for a Duggar vibe over here.
None of the initials are meaningful except for the middle names of #1 and #6 -- both have middle names that share the first initial of the first name of a grandparent who had died shortly before they were born.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Oct 26, 2020 18:21:29 GMT
Only child, so not an issue here. However, it seems to be a very common thing around here and I have always found it just odd. I don't think it's a recent trend either since DH and his sister have the same first initial. My sisters do but they are twins so there's that as well. My first initial is different than their initial though. I've got one cousin who went with A, another with R, while a third used K and 'creative spelling' with her boys. Our great nieces are both L names and four letters each. I'm not sure that's any worse than the family DH grew up with though. All the kids (boys and girls) were named after types of birds!
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Post by zella on Oct 26, 2020 18:22:05 GMT
My sister and I did, our brother has a different letter. But I knew it wasn't something I wanted to do because of the number of confusions, mostly with mail, with my dad and I. He never went by his legal name, and the name he went by had the same initials as me. It was a pain. Funnily enough, this didn't seem to be an issue with my sister.
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Post by Merge on Oct 26, 2020 18:23:39 GMT
Too Duggar for my taste. My girls’ names are not similar at all.
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Post by mrsp on Oct 26, 2020 18:27:53 GMT
Well I’ll join in if kids can equal dogs, lol. Our first dog we named Pickles and when we got the second dog she was already named Penelope, so we kept that and now I have two P’s which I frequently mix up. Thankfully they are not the same breeds or I might just mix them up permanently.
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Post by padresfan619 on Oct 26, 2020 18:28:14 GMT
We have a boy and a girl name picked out for this baby and if all goes well we will hopefully give them a sibling. The names both happen to start with the same letter but there is no rhyme or reason for it, it’s just a coincidence. If we have two kids of the same sex they likely won’t have name with the same first letter.
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Post by sueg on Oct 26, 2020 18:28:30 GMT
My boys have different first initials, quite deliberately. My parents were keen on avoiding doubling up on first initials, and made it to child #5 before they repeated initial #4. My 2 youngest brothers (#6 and 7) have the same first name initial, but they are twins.
DH's older brother and his wife have 4 boys, and all 4 names start with J. BiL says it was just the names they liked, which I bought for the first 2, but by child 4, I doubt it was just coincidence.
In my family, all my siblings (1 sister, 4 brothers) who have kids have used different initials for wach child.
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Post by jubejubes on Oct 26, 2020 18:28:39 GMT
No and their names were chosen with care that the initials weren't an acronym for anything at that time. Their last name is a very common last name and with a large in-law family.
I worked in banking and there were many instances of too many people in the same household that had the same initials and that made some important things in life unnecessarily difficult.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 18:30:05 GMT
Nope. I don't have any friends who named their kids by the same first letter.
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Post by Peal on Oct 26, 2020 18:33:39 GMT
My sister and I have the same initial, C, but that was just a coincidence of name choices, I have two brothers who each have different initials, R, and J. Growing up my neighbors had 4 girls whose names all began with J.
The closest we get to purposeful initials is my youngest DS has the same initials as DH, his dad, and his grandfather. So 4 generations of the same initials. It also turns out that DS, DH and FIL are all youngest sons of youngest sons. I don't know how you can plan for that though. It was a streak of luck.
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Post by Really Red on Oct 26, 2020 18:41:36 GMT
No, but I know SO many people who did that. I'm in the South if that makes a difference. I don't think a thing of it if there's two kids because you can like two names with the same letter, but I do think it's a bit weird when it gets to be a whole passel of them.
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Post by muggins on Oct 26, 2020 18:41:40 GMT
I thought it was twee. But then I named my daughter beginning with a D and 7 years later when my son came along, the name I liked just happened to begin with D too!
DH and I have to same initials. It has never been a problem.
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Post by brandy327 on Oct 26, 2020 18:44:22 GMT
Nope, not here but with nicknames we have an L,M,N. 😁 it wasn't done on purpose as their real name initials are A,M,N.
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Post by stingfan on Oct 26, 2020 18:46:00 GMT
Oddly, I have a brother and sil whose names start with J and K. I also have a brother-in-law (dh's brother) and sil whose names also start with J and K. Both of these couples gave their kids names that all start with J or K.
I also went to high school with a girl who was the 5th of 5 girls. They were named in order alphabetically, so her name started with E.
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Post by ntsf on Oct 26, 2020 18:50:07 GMT
I knew a family growing up with 6 boys.. all started with K.. very unusual... my kids' have different initials.. even my twins have widely different names. other than their middle names that were the names of my two great aunts (sisters--neither had kids)..after having a name that no one pronounces correctly or spells correct;y... all of my kids name are common in spelling and culturally
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Post by MorellisCupcake on Oct 26, 2020 18:52:34 GMT
Mine don't.
My mom had a cousin who had 2 boys, 2 girls - Sherry, Shawn, Shannon and Shane.
I always wondered why, but my mom never asked. She didn't think it was odd.
One of my good friends has two kids (girl/boy) and both start with Br.
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Post by walkerdill on Oct 26, 2020 18:53:54 GMT
Yes, Both of my kids names start with D. I just loved the names & didn't specifically want the same letter. Just worked out that way.
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Post by Julie W on Oct 26, 2020 18:56:43 GMT
Two of my sisters did that - one had three with all M's and the other had 11 (yes! 11) with all J's.
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Post by sam9 on Oct 26, 2020 18:57:15 GMT
No. My sister and I each have two boys. The initials of their first names spell Lake. But definitely not intentional.
ETA: Or Kale, LOL. My sister had always intended to name her first male child after our great grandfather because she loved the name. I did too, but she got first dibs. However her husband strongly disliked the name and had bad associations with it, so she gave in and named her children something else. I took the name for my second son. She wasn't mad and my husband adores the name and so does everyone else. I think my BIL might regret it now just a little bit.
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Post by River on Oct 26, 2020 18:57:51 GMT
No, I purposely didn't because me and my brothers all have names starting with the same letter and it got annoying.
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Post by caangel on Oct 26, 2020 18:59:40 GMT
No but they have the same sound (K/C). My DD has the same initials as me,same middle name but different first names. My legal first name starts with a C but only people who don't know me call me that name. The nick name I use starts with a different letter. Which honestly caused some issues when my first employer did email addresses and people didn't know that my email was C(last name)@company...
I made sure that the nickname for my DD started with the first letter of her legal name.
DS is named after my older brother who passed as a toddler. It is also my younger brother's middle name.
We lable things K or C all the time. One was born on an even day and the other an odd day so we use that to decide things too.
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I have the feminine version of his first and middle names. My older sister and younger brother had the same initials (TAN) and I assume that was done deliberately, though I don't think I ever asked either of my parents about it. Their initials were not related to anyone else in the family, just each other. 
