I am taking an informal poll from all of my blogfriends:
Alliteration on same-gender siblings is
A) Cute
B) Confusing
C) I hate it
D) Indifferent (thanks Laura, I thought about that just after I posted)
I generally don't dig it b/c I find it confusing (less so for brother-sister pairs for some reason), but Bill and I cannot agree on a name. We have it narrowed down to two names, one of which is another "L" name. Maybe I am just obsessing, but that is what I do best, so humor me. I want your opinion!
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I need option D. Indifferent. I figure you need to pick the name you like.
Now if you're talking about rhyming or sing songy names, then I hate that. You see this a lot in twins.
Random fact: Jon and I ranked all our boy names and came up with this ranking:
1. Nate (but Jon vetoed)
2. Alex (but I vetoed)
3. Tom
4. Tim
And that is how we ended up with Nate and Alex. We overrode vetoes bc we couldn't bear to be the parents of Tom and Tim Case!!
I am not a fan of this at all. We considered a B name for a while with DS2 - but I decided against it. First, DH name is a B name, I have a dog with a B name, a cat with a B name and a son with a B name. You do not know how many times the wrong name comes out of my mouth. It is ridiculous!
I have no problem with it at all. It's hard enough to come up with a name you both like. If it happens to have the same first letter as your first, so be it! I was a bit worried that "Seth" rhymes with "Beth," but I got over it, because we both think it's a good name. (And we agreed!) To hell with what anyone else thinks!
I come from a family (including cousins) who all have names with the same letter. My cousins, Bart Brett, Beth. Other cousins Todd, Tracy, Tory and Tara and my brother and I have the same letter starting our names. All I can say is that it confuses the heck out of my grandma and she ends up running through every B name until she hits the right one! It's kind of cute but since it's so hard to pick a name overall I wouldn't limit the search like that.
I'm not a fan of it myself. That is just me. Only because other famiilies get it confused. Esp with same gender. Even in our house, my hubby is Sam and my daughter is Seren, they "hear" the opposite name all of the time. Odd! That being said, I did like a lot of 's' names when we named our son. We went with a W. :) Good luck! Just choose something you both LOVE. The rest of the world will 'deal'.
Go with what you love and don't worry bout the rest. I obsessed about names, and am still kicking myself for not going with what I truly loved because of this or that.
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