Ok so here we go again trying to pick a name for a baby and now we have reached another stumbling block - sibling names...do you think they should all "match" or have a "ring" to them so that when you say them all together they roll of the tongue or does it not matter if they all sound completely different?

Reason I ask is that our first two children have long names, Gabriella and Alexander, but they regularly get shortened to Gaby and Alex. But when people ask me the names of my children I use their full names. So for this next child a lot of the names we like are shorter names to begin with and I just think they dont really flow with the others.

My DH thinks I am crazy and if we like a name we should just go for it, but I have a habit of matching things up eg around the house etc so I wonder whether it will drive me insane! Maybe I am just being silly!

So what does everyone else think?