What do you think of alliteration??

[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.

[Tuesday's Child]

I grew up with a family of 4 boys whose names all begin with A. Mum used to call them the "A-team" which I think is pretty cute. We've lost touch with them so I'm not sure how they feel about it as adults.

Our last name begins with D, so D first names are out for us. Just because D- D- can sound harsh. I wouldn't necessarily feel the same way if it was a different letter.

I'm not opposed to names beginning with the same letter if I really like the name, but I wouldn't do it just for the sake of it. DH's name starts with S as does my first choice for this bub - I hadn't even thought about that until reading this thread.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I like alliterative names for themselves. Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Otto Octavius... clearly Marvel Comics recognise there's a higher chance of having a lab accident to give you super powers if you have an alliterative name. (Guess what we've done to Liebling!)

However, my grandfather gave his first son the same name as him, bar two letters at the end of the middle name. Same initials, same first name, exceedingly similar middle names. Postal nightmare. Also family problem figuring out which one people are talking about - trickier as my grandmother has a brother with this first name, my other grandfather had this first name and an aunt also married a man with this name - and now DH has an uncle with the name. I'm all for family names (this name is DS's first middle name) but not to that extent!

I'm not ruling out other names that start with my, DH's or Liebling's initial. But we'll have different middle names at least!

[Kaydee]

I must be really tired this morning because I misunderstood the title of this thread and thought "OMG, who on earth would want to call their child Alliteration"

As for names, my father and his father have the exact same names. When my Grandmother is calling out for one of them, or asks a question, they both know who she is calling. Apparently she says it in a different tone. I never know, so end up saying something like "Dad, nan asked you a question!" and he replies that she was asking Grandad, not him. DH's father and his Grandfather also have the same names - but the Grandfather died before DH and I met. They lived together their whole lives, so I have no idea how that worked! Post must have been a nightmare.

[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