Matchy sibsets and family names

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Rose and Ruby?

Would Rose, Ruby, and Scarlett just be too much? Less odd if those weren't all first names?

*edit* Is Ruby a pretty name or do you envision a chubby little girl getting made fun of, or that weird nondescript animal kid's show character?




Would you use a lot of names from one side of the family but not from the other? Do you think that might create bad feelings? We happen to love a lot of my family's names, but not very many of his and I worry about offending someone. We did accidentally use his great-grandmother's name as a second first name for our daughter, so I guess we have our bases kinda covered.

Comments

[box-of-rocks.livejournal.com]

I think Rose, Ruby, and Scarlett all in one family is too much! I love all the names individually, but not all together, unless at least 2 of three were middle names.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I know cousins called Ruby and Scarlett and I joked that the next one needs to be Magenta or Rose. I actually don't think that it's too odd or matchy, though.

Using family names is tricky. I told my mother-in-law that if we had a boy, his middle name would be Jonathan after my brother, and she got a bit huffy. I think that you need to at least nod to both sides if you're using at all. We didn't use any family names for Wren, though. Various family members asked us to use certain names, but we decided to name our daughter as we wanted to.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I like Scarlett, and I LOVE Rose and Ruby. I definitely don't picture the things you mentioned - Ruby always makes me think of this character from Anne of Green Gables.

I think it might be a bit much on siblings if they were all first names, but not that bad. If they were all middle names, that's totally fine.

[lil-cherub.livejournal.com]

I love the name Ruby. I always think of the song "Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Soho" and its so upbeat. As for the sibset, they are all synonyms for the color red. If that's the theme you are going for, you nailed it and they go together well.

Unless you tell people the baby is named after someone on your side or the baby's father's side, people won't even know.

[bookity.livejournal.com]

I think of this song also. Also my friend's aunt's dog who my friend named after the song. :) Still a really fun song though.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

There's this Australian MTV VJ (or something) named Ruby Rose and I can't ever associate those two names as separate names anymore. I love them both though, they're great names, and Ruby Rose is pretty nice looking and nice in general too, so it's a good association, but yeah. I just can't look past it haha.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I love all three of these names a lot, but all three together as first names in a sibset might be too much. You could do something with first names and middle names like Scarlett Ruth (or Scarlett Rebecca), Amelia Rose, and Helena Ruby or something, so the theme would be less obvious.

I think Ruby is a very pretty name. I can see someone named Ruby as a little girl, a teenager, and an adult, unlike, say, someone named Riley, who would be perpetually five years old in my mind.

I'm beginning to think that family names might be best used as middle names so no one gets too offended and so that there's no doubling up (I'm super sensitive to that because it's happened way too many times on my mother's side of the family). Using names from one side of the family is probably alright, especially if you don't say too much about it unless someone brings it up. If someone asks, you can say your side's names just fit with your and your husband's style and leave it at that.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I definitely don't picture the things you mentioned - Ruby always makes me think of this character from Anne of Green Gables.

Ruby Gillis! YES! Anne of Green Gables FTW.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I personally like names that have a theme. For example, I secretly desire having 3 boys named Sawyer, Finn and Thatcher.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Rose and Ruby are both great names. Adding Scarlett to the sib set is too much, even if one is a middle name.

Hmmm...it depends. I wouldn't use a name to honor someone I don't like just to have an even split between sides of the family. But you can use just about any name as a middle name even if you don't particularly like it, since it won't be used much.

[ahavah]

I love all those names, but I do think Rose, Ruby, & Scarlett would be too much all as first names. Ruby was high on my list, but my husband didn't like it. We've tossed around Rose as a middle, but it never flowed once we had names picked.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Ruby is very pretty.

Rose and Ruby are too matchy, so throwing Scarlett in...geesh, way too much.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm thinking so too, was just curious what others thought. They are three of my favorite names, but I wouldn't likely use them together.

Our daughter's name was Brenna Rose (a two name first name, though we often just called her Brenna). We've considered with our next to have a not-so-obvious nod to her memory by using another flower name or some such. I'd also really like to use a gem name in honor of my paternal grandmother (she and her sisters were all named after gemstones). Part of the appeal of Rose in the first place was my favorite color is red and they're one of my favorite flowers, so Ruby is really growing on me (already loved it anyway).

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I think Rose and Ruby together is kind of cute, but Rose, Ruby and Scarlett is too much for some reason.

It might, but it depends. I like one of his sister's names and partd of his two sister's names together form an actual name that I like a lot , so I thought that if we had two girls I could give them middle names from their three aunts (I like my sister's name, too).

It really depends on the family. I think his family would be happy if I did but wouldn't care if I didn't. It also turns out that a name that I really like is his great-grandmother's name, but nobody else likes the name (it's Cordelia. I think it's pretty, but everyone else thinks it's old-fashioned, including him).

[finalarrowhail.livejournal.com]

I personally don't think it's too matchy. I usually think combos like that are cute.

But Ruby reminds me of a great-great-grandmother kinda name. Rose and Scarlett are cute, though. :)