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Post by bc2ca on Oct 26, 2020 22:05:42 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. I know a Marybeth with sisters named Marysue, Marylou and Maryanne. Her brothers are John Peter, John Michael, and John Patrick. They girls all spelled their names as I've written them and the boys were Pete, Mike and Pat to everyone except their mom by the time they started school. |
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 26, 2020 22:07:58 GMT
No, good heavens we could barely pick two boy names for our kids. We were both teachers and when one of us would like name, The other would veto it because of a kid we had in class. Ha.
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Post by gar on Oct 26, 2020 22:12:54 GMT
No, far too twee for me, and not a common thing in the UK as far as I'm aware.
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Post by pinkgreen on Oct 26, 2020 22:17:19 GMT
Yes - boy and girl both start with the same letter, but different sounds. They’re 22 and 19.
My sister and I don’t have the same letters, but the same pattern. Four letter, two syllable first names, two syllable longer middle names.
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Post by Judy26 on Oct 26, 2020 22:21:39 GMT
Nope, but my whole family growing up started with the same letter. Parents and all 4 siblings and the dog.
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Post by inkedup on Oct 26, 2020 22:25:22 GMT
Yes, but we didn't do it intentionally. My oldest son is named after my husband and our youngest is named after both of our dads. Just so happens all of the names begin with the same letter. (Middle names, too.) My name also begins with the same letter, so most people assume we chose our sons' names for that reason 😂
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Post by cindyupnorth on Oct 26, 2020 22:26:12 GMT
No, but there are quite a few families around here that do. Namely using K, and H.
I did think having A,B,C,D would have been fun. my dh and my name are C &D, and one dd is A, but I couldnt come up with a B name for dd that sounded right with our last name. So went with a J.
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Post by AussieMeg on Oct 26, 2020 22:28:35 GMT
No, my kids' names don't start with the same letter, it's way too Duggarish for my liking.
My first real boyfriend, whom I had planned to marry and have kids with, ended up having three kids whose names all started with J. He and his wife also have names that start with J. I thought to myself, no way would I have allowed you to do that if we'd had kids! Mind you, it wouldn't have worked as well because I'm an M.
ETA: I wouldn't mind it if it was only two kids with the same letter, and not intentional, but anything more than two is when it gets into Duggar territory.
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Post by magenta on Oct 26, 2020 22:31:55 GMT
No, we never wanted to do anything like that with our kids. Only two of us share initials and it wasn't intentional. Their names are completely different and I can still say three syllables before getting to the right name. "Ji- Te- Ka- Richard!"
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Post by prettyprettypaper on Oct 26, 2020 23:38:23 GMT
I have two DDs and both have names that start with the letter M. I never planned to have my kids' names start with the same letter until I was pregnant with DD2. It just fell into place because the name I wanted for DD2 happened to start with the same letter as DD1's name.
My mother's name was Darlene, and she told me she had always wanted her kids' names to start with the letter D. This is why my name and my younger brother's name both begin with D. My older brother was supposed to be Dino (this was 1970), but my Dad's name starts with a J, and he wanted my brother's name to start with a J as well.
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Post by prettyprettypaper on Oct 26, 2020 23:39:47 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.
My grandmother used to call me Darlene (my mom's name) all the time. She'd correct herself, of course. I do the same thing with my two girls. I still like that their names start with the same initial, though.
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Post by freecharlie on Oct 26, 2020 23:40:38 GMT
No, but I have a couple like that in my family and I've known quite a few families as a teacher who have done this.
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Post by maryland on Oct 26, 2020 23:41:50 GMT
The oldest and youngest have the same initial. We decided the kids and I would use my husband's last name. So I got to pick the first names and we picked the middle names together. It worked out well for us!
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Post by MichyM on Oct 26, 2020 23:54:41 GMT
Thanks for all the replies....sounds like most of us don’t run across it all that often. I wondered if it was just me. One of our British peas used the term ‘twee’ to describe it, which sounds like the word I’d use as well  ETA: also, I agree with the Pea who said that more than 2 is where it begins to become noticeable. I mean if I had children named Sara and Sean I don’t think many people would think twice about it, KWIM? |
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Post by moodyblue on Oct 27, 2020 0:05:48 GMT
My older brother and younger sister have names starting with 's' but mine is different. It was purely coincidental that theirs start the same.
I taught with a woman named Bonnie, whose brothers were Ronnie, Donnie, Lonnie and Monnie. I thought that was even more weird.
I had a student whose mother was a twin - and the twins' names were Debbie and Deborah.
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Post by honeyb on Oct 27, 2020 0:27:25 GMT
Yes, both my kids have names starting with the letter C, but not by design. We just liked the names. I have never messed up and called my kids the wrong name (they are a boy/girl) We took in a teen girl a year or so ago and her name also starts with a C. I have the worst time with the 2 girls and calling them the wrong name. I feel so bad about it. They are the same age, so im not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Eta... I've been thinking about why I keep messing up their names when I never mess up my kids' names. I think it's because they both begin with c (one a ch) and end in the ee sound and are 2 syllables. My son starts with a c and is one syllable. His name is not at all similar to his sisters.
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Post by mimima on Oct 27, 2020 0:57:10 GMT
No, but my siblings and I all have M names.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Oct 27, 2020 1:26:06 GMT
No nor did I think they sounded similar. I wanted them to be different so when I called one, they wouldn't all come running. MY brother and I, Shan and Alan-a, sounded so similar we both had to come when called. However, I didn't do well, Cal-vin and and Al-ex, and more similar than I thought. =-)
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Post by Linda on Oct 27, 2020 2:51:16 GMT
nope - S. C. and A. - they all have two middle names though (as do I and my younger sister - as far as I know my older sister doesn't have a middle name but I could be wrong - she's 20 years old than me and married when I was a toddler and we haven't lived in the same country since I was 5. None of us share initials either - B. L. and J.)
edit - it wasn't uncommon in Catholic families (and more so in some cultures) to name all of the girls Mary/Marie/Maria or some variation like that to honour the Virgin Mary. Sometimes the girls would use a double-barrelled name (Mary Catherine, Mary Margaret, Mary Theresa, Mary Elizabeth), sometimes a nickname (Mary Kate (or just Kate), Maggie, Tessa, Betty, and sometimes they all went by their middle name. I've know quite a few families with that type of naming.
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Post by krcrafts on Oct 27, 2020 3:08:45 GMT
None of our names begin with the same letter, but weirdly, the first letter of the 5 kids/grandkids spell my parents’ last name. It wasn’t done on purpose, but it’s pretty cool.
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Post by PNWMom on Oct 27, 2020 3:41:25 GMT
No, but we sort of match. My husband and I have A and E names (and an A last name). Our eldest daughter has an A name and our youngest has an E name. We named our eldest after a family member and weren't concerned about which letter we were using, but in deciding our youngest daughters name we felt like it had to be an A or E name to go along with the rest of us. We went with Ember (middle name Anne), and it is absolutely perfect for her.
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Post by paget on Oct 27, 2020 3:41:43 GMT
my brother, sister, and I all have same first letter names. We thought it was completely dumb. And honestly, it was! My parents couldn’t think of a Same letter name they liked by the time my sister came along and named her sometimes both admitted they didn’t really even care for! My sister has since legally changed her name to one starting with another letter.
My first dd is M
Second dd is H
We had planned for dd3 to be P but changed our minds about two weeks before she was born and she is an M as well. I decided it was ok because the H is in the middle 😂 and I didn’t want to NOT use a name we loved because of that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 4:57:27 GMT
My brother and I do, but I think it was coincidence.
My husband and both his siblings have the same initials-all 3 names. It was intentional.
I don’t know any of my peers who have named their kids according to this habit.
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Post by straggler on Oct 27, 2020 5:03:09 GMT
No, but my Mother was the oldest of 6. All their names started with the letter “V”. Mother was the oldest, born in 1912, so I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “a Duggar thing”.
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Post by greendragonlady on Oct 27, 2020 5:11:10 GMT
My brother and I do, but not on purpose. I wasn't even named for a month.
My kids do not have the same initial.
My son's two daughters do. I think if they have any other children they will continue the trend.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 27, 2020 8:07:38 GMT
I know families that have done that in several generations! One with K, the other J. A good friend caught it from her ILS when she dared to break the chain with her second child , an A!!
in my family, it’s pets. They all start with P. It began almost 60 years ago with my mom’s poodles. We’ve had so many dear babies over the years, and currently there’s a kitty named Pandora, a hound named Puligny, ( DS makes wine ), and two new kittens joining DD and her SO, Pele is one and I forget the other. It’s been fun finding meaningful and pleasing P names over the years, and it’s a comfort that the kids carry on the tradition.
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Post by sueg on Oct 27, 2020 8:54:46 GMT
I had a student whose mother was a twin - and the twins' names were Debbie and Deborah. I once taught a girl who was a triplet - 2 girls and one boy. The girls were Chanelle Maree and Chantelle Mary! Brother's name started with an A. I also taught 2 boys from a family with tha same idea. First son was Kurt (or Kurtis), which is a standard spelling variant. The next one was Klinton, and the third was Kraig, both of which felt a bit forced. I taught the last 2! |
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Post by momto4kiddos on Oct 27, 2020 11:20:18 GMT
My sister and I have the same first letter and I kind of hated the sound of our names together because of it. I think my parents just liked the names because if they'd had a boy the trend would have been over for sure. Given that I didn't enjoy sharing a letter with my sister  mine all have different letters. Besides the fact that i'd rather names I love rather than finding one I like because I want the letter the same. Oh and my (adult) kids names are nothing alike yet I constantly call them by the wrong names...the girls especially. I'm not sure why other than maybe i'm losing it |
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Post by stargazer on Oct 27, 2020 13:10:12 GMT
No, but my DS has the same initials as me. Not on purpose it just so happened that the boy’s name we agreed on started with a J as my first name does. My middle initial is D as is his but his is in tribute to my late brother & not related to my D at all. It made things a bit complicated early on particularly as we also share a birthday (obviously also not on purpose!)
DD’s initials (FC) have nothing in common with us or with DH..
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Post by Delta Dawn on Oct 27, 2020 14:28:01 GMT
My dad, mom, me, son and Ddil all start with the same letter. My poor sister was different.
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mine all have different letters. Besides the fact that i'd rather names I love rather than finding one I like because I want the letter the same.
