Rhyming?

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Do you think Isabella Maria and Agatha Sophia would be too matchy for a sibset? Even more so for twins? Please consider that in Italy, where I live, names ending in -a are basically the rule for girls' names. My concern is that they rhyme.

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[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

I live in Italy too :]

I don't think it's too matchy; it's not like you'll be calling them by their first and middle names anyway, just Isabella and Agatha. In that sense, they work fine as names, though I don't like Agatha much.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

No I don't think they match too much! :) It would be a different story if you want to call them by their middle names ;)

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

In the US, I'd say that it's too much. But in Italy, where almost all female names end in a, I don't see the problem, since most girl names rhyme anyway, haha.

The names flow well together, I think, and I really like Sophia :) Maria and Isabella are nice, too, just not my style, really. I don't really like Agatha as a first name (it sounds so old-ladyish to me, but maybe that's just a US-thing), and I like Sophia a lot better, but Sophia Agatha doesn't flow as well.

I do like them, though. Use 'em!

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Nah, not a problem - nobody ever says middle names aloud!

[stellarichards6.livejournal.com]

i agree with the "not too matchy" thing. i'm planning on matching the middle names slightly. not so they rhyme, but just that their similar because i have the same middle name as my mother & brother.

how are you planning to pronounce "agatha" though. ie: in italy, as we both know, the TH sound isnt really common. are you thinking of that name as aga-THA or aga-TA? forgive my approximation of the italian version of the name, but i'm just curious.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

funny that you should ask, I'm thinking of it pronounced as AgaTA, because that's what the name is spelled in italian, but in Tuscany, where I live, we tend to pronounce 't's in final syllables similar to a 'th' sound. For example, in Florence, "fratello" is likely to be pronounced as "frathello", going by the region's accent. So the name is open to either version ;)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

true!

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

thanks for your input! :)
in Italy as well it belongs in that category, but thinking of old fashioned names given to little children makes me reconsider them under a different light.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I do plan to go with the first names, the middle names would only be there to round them up :)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

really? :) where in italy, if i may ask?

thanks for your input!

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

Siracusa! But I'm moving somewhere up north soon.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i think that since it's just the middle names that are matchy, it's perfectly fine. plus, agatha and isabella sound gorgeous with each other :)