"theme" names

MrsHughesNC

Would you ever consider themed names for your children?

A pretty awful example is a friend of mine from work. Her name is Brandy. Ok, normal enough.

Her sisters are Sherry and Daiquiri.

 

Emiliana7

Our theme is all D names. (yes, we're *that* family)

Scout1218

No.  Absolutely not.

plunderb

I won't be doing this for/to my own kids, but it is a very old practice. People have been naming their kids in sets for centuries.

Example (siblings named for Presidents): https://vastpublicindifference.blogspot.com/2009/01/presidents-part-ii.html

The funniest set I ever met IRL was a family of four sisters: Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, and Aurora.

 

krissyh21

No, way too cutesy and annoying and I hate to be stuck in a situation where I ran out of names and had to use one I hated by default. 

GideonsMom

The only theme we are considering is that each of the children will have a family members name as their middle name. 

I think themes like Disney characters or drink names are pretty cheesy.  

sunnyday016

Probably not. I like names that sound nice together as a sibling set, but don't necessarily have to match.

braveangel2

I like subtle themes, like having the names from the same country (in the instance of my boss with Rhian, Braedon, and Colin) and sharing one letter, but not necessarily the first, or if they have the same amount of letters, but are completely different names etc.

And that sucks. I can't decide who I'd want to be. Sherry?

Spaghatta Nadle

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anna7602

Daiquiri is a TERRIBLE name, set or no set.

To answer your question, I guess it depends on the kind of set. People could say that naming your kids after all of their grandparents could be a "set" or naming them all after literary characters, two things I think are ok. Naming them after drinks- not so ok in my book.

brookelynpaisley

I lke alliteration, personally. Dh and his brothers are D's. A lot of the names we like happen to start with M's and A's for girl, so our daughters (if we have them) would probably either have matching initials or swapped FN and MN intiials, ie. Morgan Ainsley and Meredith Alison or Alison Meredith.

lake919

Ew, no.  I would NOT do that.  Ever.

strangebird

Themes almost always turn out hideous. That said, if you must go with a theme (and I wouldn't) it's all or nothing. I remember a kid I went to school with was named Khail, but his older siblings were Stacey, Stephanie, Simon, and Samantha. I always wondered how he felt being--depending on how you look at it--the kid who was left out, or the special one.

UrbanHippieMama

Depends on the theme.  We're doing Biblical names, but I wouldn't do drinks or Disney... that's weird.

blondek8

MrsHughesNC:

Would you ever consider themed names for your children?

A pretty awful example is a friend of mine from work. Her name is Brandy. Ok, normal enough.

Her sisters are Sherry and Daiquiri.

 

That should be a fineable offense. Worst. Ever.