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[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I am not a fan of "matchy" or themed twin or sibling names. But I find myself really liking the names Elizabeth (nn Eliza) and Erik lately. I think that they sound nice together as twin names or sibset. I feel like I may be breaking one of my hard and fast rules here, but the soft El- and -th or -a sounds seem different enough from the hard Er- and -k sounds. Are these names too similar to be paired?

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[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

Not at all, I don't think. I'm not a huge fan of the name Erik myself but they do go extremely well together. They're not same-y at all in my opinion. They just fit.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I think those are fine together.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I LOVE your user-name. As a child I always want to become a botanist and develop a new type of pea and call it the LMNO pea. :)

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're too similar. I think you could get away with using these if you wanted to.

I love Eliza, by the way :)

My guilty pleasure sib-set is Eliza and Elijah, which is soooooo much worse.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Ha - the minute I posted this I thought how funny/awful would Eliza and Elijah would be. I think I may name my next pet fish these two names.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I know, it would be awful. I just love both names. Not together, obviously. If I shortened Eliza to Liza and Elijah to Eli, it wouldn't be too bad, I don't think.

Sigh. Too bad I can't use both. Elijah is such a great nae.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

There is always the middle name option...

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I'd want to use it as a first name. Plus, I want to use family names and names that mean something to me for some reason as middle names.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I agree. They aren't too matchy...but I have no love of the name Erik.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

They are, to me.
It feels like Erik is included in Elizabeth, although it isn't, but because it's short and it shares half its letters.