Is it too weird to have a James and a...

Re: Is it too weird to have a James and a...

• meggyme member

  August 2018

  I wouldn’t have known that, but they do sound similar. Maybe Joseph?

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• lm45678 member

  August 2018

  Doesn’t bother me at all. I do prefer to have different initials for siblings though.
  
  Suggesting:
  Thomas
  Luke or Lucas
  William
  Daniel
  Andrew
  Noah
  Robert
  Samuel

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• bellebaby221 member

  August 2018

  If it was Jack and Jacob I'd say probably too close. But I think James and Jacob sound nice together. 

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• DanyTargaryen member

  August 2018

  I had no idea James was a derivative of Jacob and I imagine most people wouldn't have a clue either.
  
  My kids are going to have the same initials too so that doesn't bother me either.

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• little_bren member

  August 2018

  I had no idea. I think it works,

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• bbiutmcph member

  August 2018

  I just prefer less matchy names in general. Both being 5 letters and starting with J is more than I care for. 

  
  
  

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• tosh24 member

  August 2018

  Thanks, ladies! The idea wasn't to purposely have matching "J" names, James is just a name on our list that I wasn't sure if we should keep. I have another child with an "A" name, so not all siblings would be matching. I honestly didn't know that James came from Jacob either until I was researching the name, but wondered how many other people might be aware. DH is super picky and has vetoed all the other names on my list (Charles, Maxwell, Sebastian, Henry) and the only one on his list that I will remotely consider is Michael, although I'm an 80's child and may still be a little tired of hearing that name...I haven't decided yet. Also, I am not at all religious and worry about having two biblical names. Choosing boy names is so hard. DS was unnamed for the first day because we couldn't agree.

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• DanyTargaryen member

  August 2018

  FWIW it didn't occur to me they were both biblical names either. Jacob yea, but that's not what I think of when I hear James.
  
  We're about to have our 2nd boy and he's ending up with a 4-letter R name like his big brother. It was not done on purpose, it just happens that we ended up loving a second name that happens to be the same letter and same number of letters as DS1. So I totally get stumbling into a "matchy" name that you didn't plan for but end up loving.

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• mockingjay1 member

  August 2018

  Bump stalking you, friend... I had no idea the names James and Jacob were related, and I don't think most people probably do or would think anything of it. I also really like the name Jacob.

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• hellobaby888 member

  August 2018

  I think it works! 

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• cjx95 member

  August 2018

  I'm going to be completely honest and say the first thing that came to my mind was that song "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" (I've never actually heard it sang John, only James..) I think the names sounds nice together, just sing songey to me personally 

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