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[pleasesupriseme.livejournal.com]

I'm a few weeks from having my daughter and was curious if you folks think the name we've picked works well with her brother and sister's names.
Her brother is Oliver Milo and her sister is Delilah Pepper. Unless she really doesn't seem to suit it, we were planning on calling her Lucy Marigold. What'cha think?

Also, an acquaintance on facebook posted her (fraternal) twin girl's first names and she's due in August- Kailee and Kailyn. I'm not digging it. Where do you draw the line for names being too matchy? I don't mind the same first initial but.. I think those sound way too alike.

Comments

[pleasesupriseme.livejournal.com]

I adore Delilah's name, it just sounds so pretty. Hopefully my kids like their names, I'd be sad if I found out later that they hate them!

I am very picky about names, so I wondered if I was just being a jerk, but.. I hate that set of names for those girls. The parents haven't got much taste otherwise, so I really wasn't that surprised.

Now, your examples sound great together! I'm not a fan of using more common names like Elizabeth and William but together they really do work well together and have their own style.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I struggle with this a lot actually. I'm not pregnant or anything, but I'm constantly thinking about names. One of my favorite names is Henry, but for girl names I tend to like more unusual names, so I feel as though they won't "match." I'm super picky though. My husband is just like "REALLY? Just pick 2 names that you like!"

[pleasesupriseme.livejournal.com]

I think having a name like Henry paired with something more unusual could actually work out really well. Henry could have an uncommon middle name, and you could pair a funky girls name with a more mainstream middle name, that way both kids could have the choice to go with something more wild or subdued as far as what they're called goes.

Never feel like you're too picky. Seriously, their names are what they'll be known by for the rest of their life, other than nicknames. They might end up hating nicknames (some people do, for some reason) and just use their given names.

I think names are incredibly important. Hence why seeing those little girls getting such boring and (sorry, in my opinion) kinda trashy sounding names was such a buzzkill. They'll be my son's stepsisters and thank god their father didn't get any input on his name. His idea was to name my son after his D&D character D: