What do you think of alliteration??

[nothing2lose]

I thank you in anticipation of your consideration of my consternation...

I am not a fan (unless you are in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera).

[OceanPrincess]

I was in mother's group with a J family like that - mum and dad both had names starting with J and named their 2 girls names starting with J. Personally I couldn't do it as it is confusing with having mail addressed to you etc. but having said that I have a G & J name that have the same starting sound so I am a bit of a hypocrite

They aren't the same at all!!!! My friend has "Olivia" and "Bianca" which she now thinks are too much the same but at the time she didn't notice it...

Personally I'm not a fan. This may be off topic but my sister has a bigger problem with all the letters in her kids names being 'above the line'. So no f, g, j, q or y!

Yeah ok that's a bit odd... besides when you write a name you use a capital, don't you? So they are all automatically above the line?

I thank you in anticipation of your consideration of my consternation...

I am not a fan (unless you are in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera).

I am the very model of a modern major general!

[Epacris]

Yeah.... not a fan. DH’s name starts with R too, that’s more than enough Rs for our little family. One of our strongest baby naming rules was “must not start with R”.

[Arcadia]

Not a fan. Dh and I are both a names so all names starting with a are out...which sucks because I looove some a names. I might be able to twist dh arm for next bub!

[OceanPrincess]

Keike that was another rule of my sister's - no alliterating first and last name. I love the name Grace but my surname starts with a G... actually its a Gr surname... so I thought that'd be a bit much, two "GR" sounds. But maybe Georgina might be ok, different sound. But to my sister, still a no no.

DS's name has the same initial as mine. Ah well! I'd temporarily forgotten about that But I have an excuse - we use a nickname that starts with a different letter. Like Elizabeth and Betty, but not that obviously!

Aren't we funny with our name rules?

[blessedatlast]

I wouldn't do it deliberately, but I wouldn't shy away from using a name that really suited bub just for that reason.

Yeah that! DF is jade, his son is Jacob and this bub will be Jett If it's a boy.. Not intentional, but I like the name Jett and wouldn't not use it because it's a J name..

[RhiChiChi]

Interesting about the surname issue too - I love J names but our surname starts with a J and my first name starts with a J & I don't like it

[~StarBright~]

We have kind of gone with all the same initials..

It started with DH insisting that our son be called the exact name as him, which i wasnt 100% convinced about, but i let him have it.. so when DD came along i decided that we would have her name have my initials. It will confusing once they start getting mail!!!!! But i kind of like it

[kristi14]

I dont understand why people do that. The way i see it is that the letter thing stops people choosing names they really love just to stick to a "theme". Like the Duggars with all the "J" names, i honestly dont beleive all those names were picked because they were top of list names they absolutely loved, not with that many children. Obviously there will be some exceptions to the rule and i dont mean to offend anyone who has alliterated.

We had a double letter rule, but it didnt affect the names we picked, we just worked double letters into the ones that didnt have them in the traditional spelling (though most of them had double letters in them anyway and the ones that didnt we prefer the double letter spelling). I say "had" because we just broke that rule, we had a name we both absolutely loved and whatever way we tried to get double letters into the spelling it looked silly or changed the way its pronounced. We decided that it was ok to break the rule and so we did, to use the name we LOVE.

[Floweryfields]

Thanks to this thread I learned something today - all these years I thought it was "i" lliteration not "a" lliteration!

[JLeigh29]

My uncle and his ex were both B's, and all three children were B's. They used to sign their cards from 'The B's'.
He has a couple of children from a prior marriage who are both M's.... and their last name is M. Seems you either like it or you don't!!

[TaRhLi.]

I don't mind it but I wouldn't do it myself. My thing though is that all my kids have 4 letter names - easier for me to say all together instead of having names with lots of syllables.

I'm not a fan however of first name and second name initials being the same and when I was looking as names for the boys I didn't want anything with the same ending letters as their surname. So the names Owen & Euan where automatically removed as there surname is A*L*L*E*N, although Liam's name sort of has a "sing songy" feel about it.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Well we are a family of A's - but with no intention.
DS' name was the only name the both of us really liked at all so we couldn't do too much about the three person alliteration.
I wanted an A name for this baby too, but because i love the name not to do with keeping the trend going. DH unfortunately didn't like the name but loved and wanted
a variation of it so we will be AAAI... unless it comes out the 10% gender in which case it is AAAN.

Sometimes i think people place too much concern on stuff like this, sure if it's personally not your thing that's fine but some of the posts in here are a little upsetting.
I'd hate to think that people think our names look like 'too much' when it had nothing to do with alliterating on purpose.

And we all know the Duggars and their 19 are all 'J names'.

[Tinks]

All those M's do my head in! I couldn't do it but then My DD's first name starts with the same letter as her surname, lots of people wouldn't do that but it works fine for her name.

[nickers]

well my 2 ds's actually have the same initials as myself and dh.

ds1 Is Nixon, which was a name we liked and came across and just so happened to be N. Then we found out it had the same name meaning as Nicole it was special.
for his middle name i wanted my dads name cause its a name thats been in his fam for a long time, and my maiden name has not been carried on due to my brother not being able to have kids that so happened to be M and my middle name is M.

so then when ds2 came along i did look more into T names to have the same letter as dh, but it wasnt a MUST. His middle name is James which is dh's middle name and my dads middle name so it all just kinda fell together and fit... he is the only one in the family that will have mail issues. Nixon's mail will be directed Mr N xxxx

now pregnant with our 3rd, we already are in love with a girls name starting with T. and from ds1 & ds2 always if we had a girl her middle name was going to be Joan, which is both my mum and dh's mums name.

so we didnt set out to do this, but it all fell into place that way and we love it, and all have been favourite names not just names we went with because it starts with a specific letter... ofcourse if with bub 3 we loved a name that didnt start with a T or N we would use it over keeping a theme.
but maybe other people have reasonings behind their children's names just like we do, so i dont judge. we find it a very special part of our family to have family names as middle names and that we all have the same initials

[*TripleJ*]

no comment lol

[UntoldAngel]

My bestie is Melissa, with twins Madisyn and Mackenzie, and her partner is Mark (although he came along after the kids)
Her family has three S's and two R's and it was a pain in the butt sorting the mail!

Dh and I are both B, ds is P and dh isn't keen on another P name... But I suppose if you like certain names you go with it...

[shadow77]

why bother? would not do it myself, not a fan. However everyone is different :-) if my children had same initial it would be coincidence not because I set out for them all to have names beginning with same letter.
DD1 is Stephanie and DD2 is Caitlin