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Post by dillydally on Oct 26, 2020 19:01:17 GMT
Yes, but not deliberately - it just happened that the name we liked for our son happened to start with the same letter as our daughter.
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Post by tc on Oct 26, 2020 19:02:16 GMT
I have an only, so no. I very much doubt we would have doubled up on the first letter of the first name thing if we'd been able to have more kids.
However, my ex in laws had this situation: MIL came from a family of 8 kids all starting with M. FIL came from a family of 6 kids all starting with M. How they found each other in this crazy mixed up world is beyond me. It made learning the names of my XH's aunts and uncles when we got together difficult as there were so many starting with M (not counting the majority of the married in-laws - but a few of those also started with M).
My boss has two daughters, born 13 years apart. Her first daughter was named as a combination of her and her husband's first names. When daughter number 2 came along 13 years later, they wanted to repeat the same idea, so they just changed the spelling slightly to change a few of the vowel sounds. But it's basically the same name. I have a hard time talking to her about her daughters as I can't in casual conversation put the right pronounciation with the right daughter.
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Post by auntkelly on Oct 26, 2020 19:03:40 GMT
I have a friend who has three sisters whose names all begin with the same letter. She happened to marry a guy whose first name begins w/ that same letter. My friend has three kids and their names all begin w/ that letter. All of the sisters' kids have names that begin w/ the same letter. Needless to say, they have become very creative w/ some of the names.
It's not my thing, but each to his own.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 26, 2020 19:05:07 GMT
I know other people who have named children like that but no one in my family has done it.
I have four boys and none share the same first letter of their name.
It doesn't really appeal to me, but if it does to others, so be it. I do think it gets weird when it's a large family and they have to start with unique names and spellings to keep it going.
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 26, 2020 19:14:00 GMT
Our kids were named for their grandparents so could have potentially had the same letter but they don't. My parents gave us all "J" middle names. My brother and I were given family names that flowing with our first names and they decided to keep going with the pattern for the next 3 (none of them are family names though). We are friends with a family where the seven kids all have "L" names. They range in age from 55-65, so no Duggar influence for them. Mom is the only one without an L name. There is a story behind it, but DH can't remember what it is.  A friend married a guy named Dave. His mom, dad and older sister all have names starting with "D". The family legend is that her doctor said the younger sister had to be given a "D" name too or she would suffer emotional damage. Mom told him he was nuts and her name is Samantha. |
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Post by scrapmaven on Oct 26, 2020 19:16:29 GMT
It was hard enough to name them in the first place. We would have been fine w/(Last Name) Boy, as the hospital posted on their little beds. Naming pets and children is not our strong suit.
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 26, 2020 19:34:42 GMT
My parents the the same first letter to me and my sister to match the same letter to our last name.. S.S. for me and S.S. for my sister. Not of course we both have been married and basically my sister is a one name person now. She got divorced, did not want to go to her maiden name, so she opted for just her first and middle name. The middle name goes down as her last name in forms.
My kids don't but it wasn't that we were avoiding it.. just happened. My one daughter has the same full name of a celebrity but DH loved the name and I told him it was okay because this celebrity didn't have 'issues'.. lol... But we really have had fun with it. When she was a baby and we would see her name on the TV screen we would pause it and set her up next to the TV and point at the name. LOL.. only a few times though. Thankfully DD likes who this person is so it hasn't been an issue.. we really don't even think about it now unless someone points it out.
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Post by theshyone on Oct 26, 2020 19:36:39 GMT
Yes I have two A’s. Purely coincidence. A boy would always be named after his grandfather, but we had a girl first and that’s all we were ever going to have. But then three years later we did have a boy.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Oct 26, 2020 19:41:49 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.
I so wanted to do the alphabetical thing when I was young! I think I read a book that had like 8 kids named alphabetically. It was before I realized that a lot of kids weren't in my future and with just a couple, it's not nearly as fun. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Oct 26, 2020 19:44:02 GMT
My brother and I have different initials and my kids have different initials. I’d never heard of this trend done delib like this until the Duggars.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Oct 26, 2020 19:48:33 GMT
I don’t know why because usually I’m a live-and-let-live person, but this makes me so irate. It’s ridiculous. I’m sure my annoyance with it has to do with the Kardashians and Duggars.
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Post by jenrah on Oct 26, 2020 19:49:19 GMT
My brother and I share the same initial. My kids on the other hand share the same ending initial.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 26, 2020 19:54:19 GMT
Yes. We named oldest DS after someone that I knew (and liked the name) and it just happened to start with K. When I was pregnant with DS #2, we were talking names and DH said that he thought the kids should all start with K since both of our names also start with K. I didn't really want to do this but gave in.
Two of my stepmom's siblings named their kids starting with the same letter. One family has parents and kids that all start with the letter L. The other has all 5 kids starting with the letter D, but the parents names do not start with D. When I was pregnant, I asked some of them if they liked having their names start with the same letter and they said not really. The one family (with the D's) is all girls and they look very much alike. So, people always said the wrong name when they were kids. But, that didn't sway DH at all.
I don't think my kids have an opinion one way or the other about it, although oldest DS did recently ask why we didn't name him something interesting like Keonte (no idea how you spell that) lol
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Post by juliet on Oct 26, 2020 19:58:38 GMT
No, but they do share the same *last* letter of their names. They all end in S. Three very different names, but the ending in S makes it a bit matchy  |
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Post by jemmls4 on Oct 26, 2020 20:10:06 GMT
Yes, but it was not intentional.
Our first was a girl and I got the whole “ if it’s a girl you name her”. Husband usually isn’t that much of a jerk, but I had a list, he had no objections to any of the names. When she was born she just seemed like the “M” name.
Our second child was a boy and DH wanted to name him after his brother that had died (it had been close to 15 years; I had never met him). I was perfectly fine with that and his name started with an “M”.
I always wanted the kids to dress up as M&Ms for Halloween, but they never did.
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Post by malibou on Oct 26, 2020 20:13:52 GMT
My mom had one brother and 5 sisters, they were all EJF.
I have cousins that are Kimberly, James, and Timothy. They go by Kim, Jim and Tim.
Growing up we had several really large families in our neighbourhood. One was 9 boys that all had D names. In another family of 11, the names rhymed when you called out all 11 in a row from oldest to youngest. And another 7 kids with names shortened that rhymed, Kenneth, Benjamin, Wendy, Leonard, Jennifer, Henry, and Wren, went by Ken, Ben, Wen, Len, Jen, Hen and Wren. It was so obnoxious to keep straight.
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Post by rickmer on Oct 26, 2020 20:21:21 GMT
no, my kids don't have any same initials (except last name... lol!).
they are also not named after anyone. my FIL was ill with cancer and my EX wanted to name youngest DS after him.
i fought back with none of the others were and wasn't fair to my dad, sorry you aren't dying, you don't get in there dad. it was also a terrible name for a baby and my ex's middle names (which he hated). luckily FIL stood up and said "it's a crappy name, pick something better than that".
(funny enough, i liked julian and wanted to call him jude. ex said no, too feminine but FIL really liked the name because it reminded him of someone he grew up with that he thought really highly of... so we could use the crappy name everyone hated but not the name the "honouree" actually DID like. go figure.)
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Post by Anita on Oct 26, 2020 20:35:06 GMT
Nope. Never desired it, but I won't judge others for it unless they twist spellings just to make it happen. Then it seems forced and stupid.
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Post by KelleeM on Oct 26, 2020 20:36:21 GMT
No, mine don’t.
I had a neighbor with 6 grown kids with J names...they are all in their 50s and 60s now. I found it more humorous that the parents names were Phil and Lil (like on Rugrats).
I have a BIL and SIL with 3 girls with A names and 5 boys with K names.
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Post by tentoes on Oct 26, 2020 20:44:51 GMT
No, but I ended up with an A, B, C, and D. (not in that order of birth though!) The C was first, then D, then B, then A. Not planned at all--it just happened.
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Post by Gennifer on Oct 26, 2020 20:46:56 GMT
No, but my eight siblings and I, plus my parents, all do. Mormons gotta Morm.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 26, 2020 20:48:09 GMT
I also want to point out that there are other ways that people can make names "match". Such "Mary and Shari" or "Mary Lou, Mary Sue, Mary Ann (I had a classmate who had four or five sisters and their first names were all Mary). Or I have known people who named their kids after cars or flowers or other themes. My brother has two kids--Liam and Mila. Same letters in both names.
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Post by SabrinaP on Oct 26, 2020 21:03:16 GMT
Yes both my boys’ names begin with C as does my DH’s name. It was 100% my DH’s idea and since I didn’t feel strongly about it, I went with it.
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Post by milocat on Oct 26, 2020 21:07:29 GMT
There is a family in town, parents and 4 kids all start with the same letter.
I always find it odd when there are a few in a family with the same name and one without. Does that make that person special or odd?
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Post by johnnysmom on Oct 26, 2020 21:08:14 GMT
No, but they both in the same ("on"). We chose a name for one of the babies we lost and her name also ends the same. Purely coincidence, we were just going for names we could both agree on.
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Post by shanniebananie on Oct 26, 2020 21:22:27 GMT
My kids do - and even the dog has the same first letter for her name. I love the way the names sound together.
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Post by paigepea on Oct 26, 2020 21:34:13 GMT
No. We name after relatives who have passed away by giving the name or first initial. If I had 2 relatives with the same first initial perhaps it could have happened.
Older dd : first name Initial after my grandfather, middle initial after Dh’s grandmother / also happens to be for my grandmother’s middle name (which counts 😂).
Younger dd : first name initial is after Dh’s grandfather - also happens to be my Grandmother’s first initial and other grandmother’s middle name first initial. Her Hebrew name happens to be Dh’s grandfather’s Hebrew name. We almost have it to her as her English name but decided against it. Her middle name is the same as my great aunt’s who was like my grandmother.
I think it’s odd when people name in a theme but probably because we have to name after people who have passed (which I’m sure some people find odd ).
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Post by leannec on Oct 26, 2020 21:36:37 GMT
Nope ... I have an "E" and an "M" |
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Post by kristi on Oct 26, 2020 21:38:58 GMT
Me and my 3 sisters all have names that start with K.
My kids have different letters.
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Post by MissBianca on Oct 26, 2020 21:42:02 GMT
No but my boys all end in the same 2 letters, -an. It was not intended as such with the first two but when we found out DS19 was a boy, we just went with it.
DD is slightly irritated because her name doesn’t end in -an but the only reason it doesn’t is because my mom could not pronounce the name we were leaning towards. And it would have been her name if she were a boy or a girl.
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