Siblings and parents naming style

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

We've talked a lot about your own naming style when it comes to sib sets, but what style or method did your own parents use on you and your siblings?

I think that my, my brother and my sisters names match but in the popular trendy of the time way.

My brothers name was #12 in popularity for the year he was born,
My sisters was #16
Mine was # 3

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[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

My brother Jeremiah was 68 for his year, '77.
My sister Heather was 5 for her year, '78.
I'm a Stephanie, 7 in 1982.

My brother's the odd one out here. But his middle name is David, which was #4 for that year.

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

My parents used family and/or names that they just liked. Some of them were fairly popular.

Me 1973: Tara Elena (Tara was in the top 50)

Sis #2: 1975 Claire Ashley (Claire wasn't popular and Ashley is my mother's maiden name)

Sis #3 1981: Laura Lee (Both family names; Laura was in the top 50)

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

My brother and I both have pretty popular names, and mine could be labeled 'trendy', but my brother's is more classic than anything else. They didn't have horrible taste in names or anything, and I like them for the most part:

Michael Paul - 1984 (#1;#40)
Lindsay Rebecca - 1987 (#49;#25)

I think my taste in names is classic/popular for boys (Elliot, Jack, Henry, Samuel, Alexander) and classic and ranging from #1 to not even in the top 1000 for girls (Emily, Harriet, Louisa, Clare, Catherine, Alexandra).

[anapology.livejournal.com]

You have a very British taste in names.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I've actually been told that before;) Louisa and Harriet are actually both influenced by British sources. I first heard Louisa on a little girl I had in day camp a couple of summers ago, and the way her mother said her name with a British accent just made me totally fall in love with the name (along with the fact that the little girl was adorable). And then I heard Harriet in a book I read by a British author and that's what first sparked it for me.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Names that they thought were uncommon enough to use (as in they didn't know any other kids with the names) but easy to spell.
My mum really loved my name (Sophie) but prefered another (Kezia) that was vetoed by my Dad because he thought it would be hellish to spell.
My brother is Max.

My name is incredibly popular now- (number 6) but I was ahead of the trend.
My brother's was probably in the 50's (we can only get the past 5 years in the UK) it's 30 now.. but we know a lot more Max's his age than I ever knew Sophie's.

They cared more about names they liked than popularity, though Max was almost a Jack.. glad he wasn't because i'm so tired of that being #1 forever.

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

My mother had a bad knack for choosing genders and only seemed to have a name picked for the opposite gender that we ended up being. I can't really categorize her 'style', so I'll post them for you guys to guess (I don't remember the second middle names for the original sets):

1st: Heather Noelle (born 41 minutes after Xmas) became Dustin Jacob Caldwell
2nd: Tyler Joseph became Diana Elizabeth Pearl (I now go by Elisheva)
3rd: Derek Joseph became Devon Nicole Joanne (Goes by Nicki)


I would say spaghetti style - throw some names together and see what fits ;)

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

I'm Misty, which was #98 in 1984.
My sister is Summer, which was #137 in 1996.

When I look at them together, they're definitely leaning towards the hippie-dippie side, even though that doesn't really seem like something my mom would like. We both have the middle name Lynn.

A trend in my family is to give all siblings of the same sex the same middle name, so I have several female cousins with the middle names Jo, Ann, Kay, and Elizabeth. Then again, I haven't really noticed the pattern yet with male cousins, because I don't have very many that are siblings, but I'm sure it will probably be the same way.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I have an uncommon/unusual name, and my brother has a slightly uncommon name. They just went with what they liked and what sounded good.

[jesus--suburbia.livejournal.com]

My parents just liked the names.
I would have been Anthony James if I was a boy, but I am Ember Marie (because I'm a girl, haha), and if my brother was a girl, he would have been Mariah Anne . If we were both boys, he would have been Vincent Fredrick.

But it worked out, I like Ember and Anthony together. All my cousins were named disregarding sib sets, except my 2 cousins who are all C's. Mom and Dad are Cory and Craig, the boys are Craig and Cole, and the dog is Calvin. Last name starts with a C, also.

[jesus--suburbia.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ember was never listed on SSA. Anthony was 18.

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

My brother's name was #93 in the year he was born. Mine hasn't been in the top 1000.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

well, both of our names mean something in japanese (my mother is japanese) and both of our middle names are names from my dad's side of the family.
our first names are hana (HAH-nuh) & noah. our middle names are jane & alexander.
also, neither of our names were popular at the time. hana still isn't. noah is now, but wasn't in 1983.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I guess my parents tended to go for a more classic style, rather than what was trendy at the time, like Tiffany or Ashley or something. I'm Alison ('88) and my sister's Sarah ('90). My mother really wanted to spell them the traditional way, because her name is spelt like a last name (Shelley, versus Shelly).

If we were boys, we would have been Alexander and Paul.

[kandeekiss.livejournal.com]

My parents didn't have one LOL.

For the years we were born, my youngest brother's name is very different.

My youngest brother, Randall, was #210

My name, Amanda, was #4

My oldest brother, David, was #4

[fruhlings.livejournal.com]

I'm the only child, but my parents like very "classic" names--if I was a boy, I was going to be named Henry, and my mom likes the name Elizabeth. My dad on the other hand...well, he wanted to name me Indigo. Doesn't really work with our German last name. Thankfully, they settled on Louisa.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Love love love the name Louisa. It's my #1 name for a girl:)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

my mom tried to pick names that she thought were original at the time, but failed.. I know that currently all my siblings names are in the top 20 (3 of them are in the top 10) but mine is somewhere later ion the list.. let's see...

currently:
Matthew #5
Emily #1
Andrew #8
Adrienne #736
David # 13

our birth years:
Matthew (1976) #9
Emily (1977) #37
Andrew (1979) #20
Adrienne (1981) #174
David (1991) #8

so.. my name is the only one she remotely succeeded with being original. the rest were in the top 50 at least, if not the top 10 when she used them.

none of my kids' names appear in the top 1000 ;)

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

My brother was named after our uncle, but it was unfortunately the #2 name for that decade; Christopher.

I wasn't named after anyone, though an aunt-by-marriage seems to think otherwise. I think my name matches my brother's fairly well, but I got off much luckier in the popularity area--I only went to school with two other Elizabeths in my grade, even though my name was in the top 10 the year I was born.

[tinydancer3.livejournal.com]

My name was #16 my birth year 1983 -Christina

My sisters is Tiata. I doesn't even register.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

My name, Bethany, was number 102 when I was born in 1989.
My brother's name, Christian, was number 48 when he was born in 1991.

Strangely enough, I've met other Bethanys, but I've never met another [person named] Christian that I can remember. At any rate, our names weren't really chosen for popularity - my name is a confusing combination of Mary, Ann, and Elizabeth (for the biblical figures) and my brother was named after his grandfathers.

Also, because I feel like it, if I had been a boy, I would have been named Sean, which was number 39 in 1989. Had my brother been the girl my parents were convinced he was, he would have been named Megan, which was number 11 in 1991.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I know two sibsets name Sean and Megan.

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

I think my mum wanted to make sure we were the only ones in Belgium with that name. She's British you see and thus likes english sounding names, my dad just went along with it I guess. I think my brothers Nobby, Phineas, Brighton, Chaz and I have pretty special names, for living in Belgium that is. My brother Daniel is the odd one out.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I like Brighton, Phineas and Daniel. Is Nobby short for something?

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

No unfortunately it's not. I don't know what my mother was thinking, Nobby hates his name.
And he is so peeved because he can't go by any of his middle names, he hates those too.

[gidget1012.livejournal.com]

Both girls were named after grandmothers. My mom had some complications while pregnant with James, lots of prayers lead to a very biblical name. LOL. I actually picked out Brian's name.

Our names:
Bridget Carol #347 (in 1979 #161)
Laura Meghan #172 (in 1978 #19)
James Joseph #16 (in 1984 #7)
Brian Daniel #72 (in 2001 #46) Yeah, he was the suprise baby. LOL!

[opalfirefly.livejournal.com]

my parents didnt have a style
I am Arwen Rose (Rose after my grandmother)
my brother is Philip Andrew
apparently if i had come out blonde I would have been Hannah (which i think is silly b/c hair color can change)

My husband and his 3 brothers are:
Anthony Joseph
Nicholas Joseph and
Joseph Craig
it drives me crazy

Nick and I just had our first Scott Emerson.. i have thought about going with 5 letter first names for all my boys (down the road)

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

Me and my two brothers have six letter names ( I totally forgot about my little brother when posting this but he is a half brother from my dad and his exwife) my sister is the odd man out with eight letters.