Families with similar names

[AleWife]

Jan 23, 2015 19:12:44 GMT -5 harper said:

That's too much. I saw weird names working in medical records years ago, but forgot most of them. I do remember two brothers named "Blade and Slade, though.

Sure puts some pressure on a guy to do something badass with his life, eh? Ha.


I'd love to know what those guys are doing now.

[melissat2742]

My mom's family the three siblings are all "s" names, Stephen, Susan, and Sheila. My uncle continue with the "s", Shelby and Spencer.
A friend of mine, her siblings and her, I think 7 in total, all have the same middle name, Rae, boys and girls.

[skrittens]

My BILs family rhymes - his father is Floyd, and his grandfather is Lloyd. My BIL is Matt and his brother is Pat. If he and my sister had a boy they were going to continue on drilling down the rhyming and name the kid Mason Jason. Thankfully they had a girl - and are now divorced (I still think he is awesome!)

[mamajack86]

Well my parents named my siblings and I all "J" names. They always say it wasn't purposely it's just how it turned out. Same thing with my kids, my sons name is Everett (after H's late Grandfather), and my daughter will be Evelyn. Their names are very similar.

[jessuh]

My mom used all J's including for our animals. It was annoying as hell. I get asked all the time if I named my daughter Jill on purpose bc my name is Jess.. It honestly never occurred to me that they are similar? For that reason, any J or K names were off the table for kid #2 (MH is a K name). For those saying all but one kid follows a trend and the odd one out will feel left out.. Doubt it. I would have loved to not be included in my mom's stupid idea of "cute"

[chuggles1013]

I know a Tania with a DD Talia.

We have a family middle name that will be passed down, DD will be the 5th generation. My mom and I both have M names and so will my daughter, granted she stays in there for the next few weeks, we will be all born in March too. We all have different last names so no same initials. That's as far as we are going.

[jessuh]

A girl in my mom group has Blake and Jake and is now pregnant with Kate. Barf

[krystaloowho]

Jan 23, 2015 19:52:00 GMT -5 jessuh said:

A girl in my mom group has Blake and Jake and is now pregnant with Kate. Barf

Sounds like the perfect recipe for the "I thought you saids" when you can't get your kids to respond to their own name. Annoying. 

[krystaloowho]

Both of our favorite names are E names. Problem is- will we be able to find another name that doesn't start with an E next time? I'm really not a fan of alliteration with family names. But we have had a HELL of a time trying to pick a girls name- and our boys name is a much loved family name that we are really sold on. gahhhh. Being team green is hard sometimes.

[melissat2742]

Ohh another one...my grandfather was Harry, my uncle is Harry (goes by Button, not sure why) and my dad is Larry.
Also all of our pets are "p" themed...it started out as an accident then the last one kinda just fit it...so I have Penny, Payton, and Puff. Our baby names we have picked do not start with p.

[AleWife]

Jan 23, 2015 21:59:57 GMT -5 melissat2742 said:

Ohh another one...my grandfather was Harry, my uncle is Harry (goes by Button, not sure why) and my dad is Larry.
Also all of our pets are "p" themed...it started out as an accident then the last one kinda just fit it...so I have Penny, Payton, and Puff. Our baby names we have picked do not start with p.

Uncle Button or just... Button? Either way, that's fucking adorable.

[melissat2742]

Jan 23, 2015 22:01:43 GMT -5 AleWife said:

Jan 23, 2015 21:59:57 GMT -5 melissat2742 said:

Ohh another one...my grandfather was Harry, my uncle is Harry (goes by Button, not sure why) and my dad is Larry.
Also all of our pets are "p" themed...it started out as an accident then the last one kinda just fit it...so I have Penny, Payton, and Puff. Our baby names we have picked do not start with p.

Uncle Button or just... Button? Either way, that's fucking adorable.

Just Button. He lives on the other side of the country to me so I have only seen him a few times in my life. Still a weird nickname to me. 

[skrittens]

FFFC - I would totally pick a theme for my kids names if I were going to have more than one. I have a theme for my cats (past and current)

Mindy, Murphy, Maggie, Mollie, Maddie, Mistee and Mazzy. The next ones will be Marly and Mitzi.

[djoliet]

My mom used the same letter for all the boys and a different same letter for us girls. All my brothers are J names and my sister and I are D's.

My son's first name is Zachery and Baby Girl is Xiamara and we didn't the closeness in letters at all.

[bluebell0315]

I refuse to name after family. The crazy might follow the name so why take chances? DD is Chloe and LO is Clark. We didn't pick C names to be matchy matchy though. Chloe is named after one best friend and Clark is named after another one If LO had been a girl she would be Emily.

[frecklesinside]

Like most name trends, I hate this one. It is totally narcissistic and ridiculous. I also think choosing a "theme" is silly. Go with names you like. Why do you need a theme? I don't think it's cute. I've heard of people agonizing over a name choice because they just don't like anymore J names but they HAVE to name this next kid a J name because their other two are J names. Nope. Just choose a name you like. So silly. I don't get it.

[babys2015]

I have a friend who named her three boys, Ethan, Evan, and Ean. Her hubby is Eric, she has an M name..I side eyed the shit out of those name choices..esp the last one..it's Ian..

[babys2015]

On the same note, would people side eye us if we named our boys both R names. We both like Riley and Reid..but I'm worried it's too matchy..

[drudolph11]

Jan 23, 2015 9:37:44 GMT -5 katydid2015 said:

We know a family with the last name Taylor and they named their daughter Taylor Storm Taylor, same first and last name. Ugh.

Haha my SOs little sister is also Taylor Taylor poor kid. And in case you were wondering, yes their mother was on drugs when she named her ugh i feel bad for her. I really just don't understand why out of a zillion names she could have picked why she had to do that to her. Luckily she thought a little better with his name. I know several families with the same letter for their kids name. It's really not so weird to me. I don't think i would do it intentionally but if it worked it that way i would be fine with it

[drudolph11]

Oh and i also know a couple who named their boys pierce and gage so ya

[drudolph11]

So this doesn't have to do with names but i thought i would throw it in there cuz it's fucking weird. I knew a guy in high school who had 7 kids in his family and the parents seriously took all of them and had the numbers 1-7 tattooed on the back of their necks the youngest was 2 and the parents each have a 7 on theirs. Ugh i just can't with that one lol in case you were wondering, i have no idea if it is legal to tattoo a 2 year old in America but they were from Greece so maybe it is there

[bnizzlebizzle]

I have twins in my class whose names literally differ by a single letter. I won't give the names but it's like Evan and Elvan. So confusing. My coworker who is 3 weeks behind me named all her kids S names. They're all pretty different names though so it's not too bad. If this LO is a boy my kids will both have alliterative first and middle names (probably - we could always change our mind).

[biscotto]

Jan 24, 2015 20:41:47 GMT -5 drudolph11 said:

So this doesn't have to do with names but i thought i would throw it in there cuz it's fucking weird. I knew a guy in high school who had 7 kids in his family and the parents seriously took all of them and had the numbers 1-7 tattooed on the back of their necks the youngest was 2 and the parents each have a 7 on theirs. Ugh i just can't with that one lol in case you were wondering, i have no idea if it is legal to tattoo a 2 year old in America but they were from Greece so maybe it is there

wut.

[coozieinmypurse]

Jan 24, 2015 17:00:56 GMT -5 babys2015 said:

I have a friend who named her three boys, Ethan, Evan, and Ean. Her hubby is Eric, she has an M name..I side eyed the shit out of those name choices..esp the last one..it's Ian..

Woah, I also know a family with Ethan, Evan and Ean. Dad is Dave, though. And yes, they get side-eyes a lot in the family for the names and spelling Ian with a E.

[estamos_tomamos]

Jan 23, 2015 3:05:11 GMT -5 biscotto said:

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 weird and over-the-top.  Also, the name Alexia hurts me inside.  Why, why, why would you name your kid something that means "inability to read due to brain damage"?

[heyitsmamac]

A lot of these listed are overkill for sure. We considered Hazel for this LO and DS is Henry. I still love the sibset despite the same letter.

My cousins are Jack and Jamie and their mom is Julie.

Also, my dad and his brothers are Barry, Larry and Terry. And Larry marrried a Geri. It's bad.

[crystaltrues]

Ok so this one is more coincidental but still it messes with head. I have cousins who are named Luis and Leticia. Luis is married to a different Leticia, and their first cousin is also married to a Leticia. They all live in the same area and the siblings live in the same apartment building.