This is more of a random, but wondering if any of you know other families like this. A friend of mine is a nanny for a family, the father's name is Alexis, the DD is Alexia and the DS (born on Monday) is Alexander, mom does not have an "Alex" name. It's a little strange...isn't it? Anyone else know families like this?
I knew a family who all had the same letter name, Elaine, Ethan, Eve, Ellen, and Elizabeth then one son named sam and i always wondered why he was never included? I couldn't do it tbh i think it sounds strange.
This is more of a random, but wondering if any of you know other families like this. A friend of mine is a nanny for a family, the father's name is Alexis, the DD is Alexia and the DS (born on Monday) is Alexander, mom does not have an "Alex" name. It's a little strange...isn't it? Anyone else know families like this?
That's a bit much. One of the names I'm considering for LO would result in sharing initials with me and I'm not sure I can even do that. I feel like it would be so confusing.
MH and DD share the same first initial, but that is pure coincidence, she's named after my grandmother. However, both of our families are obsessed with using family names to name their children. We are too. There are several Johns, Stephens, and Williams in both of our families. Thank god we're not having a boy, because it's harder to find a first name not already being used. H's family doesn't care if they have multiple people being called by the same name (he has an aunt, sister, and niece all called Martha, fucking confusing), but I refuse to use one already being used. That being said, DD's first name (which she goes by) is used by two of my cousins kids as mn and one of my cousins. Her mn (after H's mother) is either fn or mn for I think 6 of her cousins. This LO will have my mother's fn (she goes by her mn) and my sister's mn.
This is more of a random, but wondering if any of you know other families like this. A friend of mine is a nanny for a family, the father's name is Alexis, the DD is Alexia and the DS (born on Monday) is Alexander, mom does not have an "Alex" name. It's a little strange...isn't it? Anyone else know families like this?
Weird. Our DD's name starts with a C, but we love the names Collin and Connor if we had a boy. But, just because of the C's, we nixed them. My cousins did the cute first letter thing. There's a Ryan, Robin and Rylee.
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My sister and I have similar sounding first names. But most family calls us by our nicknames which are completely different, so it's not that much of an issue.
I have a friend that has 5 girls; their first girl's name starts with an E, second starts with an A, and then they repeat the pattern. Also, on H's mom's side all the girls have the middle name Elizabeth. That's part of the reason I don't want to tell anyone the name we've picked because I don't know if they assume that her mn will be Elizabeth and I don't want to hear it if they're disappointed.
That's pretty weird...it seems a bit narcissistic to me honestly.
The closest example in my family is two of my cousins who have the same initials but they don't have similar names so it's not anything worthy of a side eye.
I know a family that's Janice, Jessica, Josh, and Janessa. Jess's daughter is Jorja, but then she adopted her half sisters daughter whose name is Sophia. I always think Sophia will feel left out when she gets older
Post by luvsponies on Jan 23, 2015 10:09:34 GMT -5
H's parents did the same letter thing. Eric (husband), Emily and Evan. I think all of their middle names start with "E" too, so they all have the same exact initials. I thought it was weird until I learned that H's grandparents did the same thing. All of their daughter's names start with "C" (and they have 4 daughters). Double weirdness.
I don't love the matchy-matchy thing. Like how the Duggar's all have "J" (is it J? I don't watch the show) names and then when the Duggar kids breed they seem to pick another letter of the alphabet and do the same thing. NMS. I can see doing it for opposite sex twins and that's about it.
I have neighbors who did this. The father's name is Cas, the mother is Katie and they have two girls named Casity and Katie Scarlett. They're expecting a boy in June and his name will be William. I wonder if he'll feel left out.
We have Maryam (my great-aunt), Mariam (my aunt, same side of the family), Meriem (the wife of one of Maryam's sons), and another Mariam (same generation as me - great niece of Maryam?). They're all on the same side of the family, but spread out pretty far & wide. My great-aunt was born in India, raised (and continues to live) in South Africa. My aunt Mariam lives is American born & lives here (Boston). Meriem, the relative by marriage, is from Morocco, and met great-aunt Maryam's son in the US - they reside in Minneapolis. The last Mariam (my second cousin?) just moved to Ithaca from Pakistan, and I haven't met her yet.
We also have two Hafizas, I call them Dr. Hafiza and (depending on the situation) widow Hafiza or Cincinnati Hafiza.
The more I think about this, the more duplication we have, but beyond the Mariam variations and the Hafizas, we've never had other folks with the same names in the same room.
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My parents are the very reason why I refuse, REFUSE, to give any family names because I felt how they named myself and my siblings is beyond obnoxious. I have to share our names to get the point across.
Mom: Darlene Rose Dad: John Patrick Me: Darlene Patricia (so my mom's name and feminine form of my dad's middle name) Sister: Jacqueline Marie (feminine version of Jack, which is also a NN for John) Brother: John Patrick Jr
We are all literally bound to each other by names in some way, shape or form. Needless to say, they have not been asked for their opinions on naming our kids.
We know a family with the last name Taylor and they named their daughter Taylor Storm Taylor, same first and last name. Ugh.
Gross!
This trend of similar names and letters is awful. I am hesitant of giving my daughter a name with the same first initial as mine, and I believe her first and last names will have the same initial which makes me a little hesitant but it's not deliberate.
The Duggar's are the epitome of this horrible trend!
Post by luckystarz on Jan 23, 2015 11:49:47 GMT -5
My cousin and I have the only grand kids on my moms families side. We didn't plan anything, and it just kind of happened, but all of the girls have E names (Erin, Ellie, and Emeline), and all of the boys have L names (Logan and Landon). My aunt made me promise when I visited her right before she died of cancer that if hubs and I had kids, that we would pick a name that didn't start with L or E. I kept my promise as this one will start with an M, but I briefly found some E names I liked but didn't love more.
My MIL and her mother have the same first name. GMIL has said that she doesn't like her first name so I've always wondered why she gave the same name to her daughter.
This is more of a random, but wondering if any of you know other families like this. A friend of mine is a nanny for a family, the father's name is Alexis, the DD is Alexia and the DS (born on Monday) is Alexander, mom does not have an "Alex" name. It's a little strange...isn't it? Anyone else know families like this?
The Alex themed family, is a little weird to me. My parents gave me and my brother names starting with the same letter. With only two kids it doesn't seem over the top. It gets really noticeable when you have 4+ kids that the names are themed.
We always joked that if baby is a boy we'll name him the first name that is contained in H's last name. It would be like naming your kid Rob Roberts or John Johnson. It would be a nice first name, but we wouldn't actually do it.
My mom's family likes to use Claire, Ann, and Marie to excess; my sister used Claire as my niece's mn. My mom also shared her name with her mother, down to being called by their mn instead of their first.
Post by huggabugga11 on Jan 23, 2015 17:52:41 GMT -5
I have a friend who's whole family is D's. Darin (father), DeAnna(Mother), Dana and Derek. My parents had no interest in naming us something similar. The most similarities we have thought about are similar initials. My son is A.L.L, and we are now considering a W.L.L, by mu husband has kind of kaboshed the family middle names that start with L on my side of the family. DS middle name is after H's grandma, so this baby will be after my grandpa. First name James, middle name Lawrence.
ETA: Baby's first name is going to be Wyatt, just trying to figure out if we are going to use James or Lawrence as a mn. My brothers middle name is James, after this grandparent too.
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