What do you think of alliteration??

[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

[OceanPrincess]

no comment lol

[peanutter]

I always wanted for our kids to have "their own" initial, which wouldn't be the same as DH and me or their siblings, or our last name ...

But DS is Joshua, and DH and I have completely fallen in love with the name Judah as a first name ... so at the moment, the name is winning out over the intention of them having their own initial!

But unless and until we find a boy's name we like more (or if ziggy is a girl!) at the moment, it looks like we'll have two Js

Incidentially, I also like the names Jacqueline, Jessica, Julia and Jasper, but DH has vetoed all of those, so chances are, if ziggy is a girl, she will not be a J

[Amity]

My name begins with C, and so did my sister's name
My two brothers both have names beginning with J.

It was J, C, J, C...

Confusing with mail growing up, but now nobody gets mail, so it doesn't matter anymore I guess...

[krysalyss]

I don't really mind it but it does remind me of the dr seuss story "too many daves"
"Did I ever tell you that Mrs McCave, had 23 sons and she named them all Dave"

[diva det]

we have the same name thing going on with the males but instead of using as DS1 first name- we gave him two middle names, but reversed each generation

so its Name 1 , Name 2, Surname- great grandfather
Name 2, Name 1, Same surname- grandfather
Name 1, Name 2, Same surname- father (my DH)
Own Name, Name 2, Name 1 , Same surname- my son

are you totally confused now ??? LOL
in other words every 2nd generation have exactly the same names, and the ones in between have the same names but reverse order

[OceanPrincess]

I always wanted for our kids to have "their own" initial, which wouldn't be the same as DH and me or their siblings, or our last name ...

But DS is Joshua, and DH and I have completely fallen in love with the name Judah as a first name ... so at the moment, the name is winning out over the intention of them having their own initial!

But unless and until we find a boy's name we like more (or if ziggy is a girl!) at the moment, it looks like we'll have two Js

Incidentially, I also like the names Jacqueline, Jessica, Julia and Jasper, but DH has vetoed all of those, so chances are, if ziggy is a girl, she will not be a J

There's a Judah at our mainly music... and she's a girl

My name begins with C, and so did my sister's name
My two brothers both have names beginning with J.

It was J, C, J, C...

Confusing with mail growing up, but now nobody gets mail, so it doesn't matter anymore I guess...

Very true.

And det - yes, I am confused!!!!

[crumpet]

well we are a S family, not intentional in any way!

DH is Shannon
Im a Sam(antha)
DD is Summah

Summah just happened to be the only name DH liked that i agreed with so thats what she got.... our middle initals are all different, C M and J... mail will be interesting when DD is a bit older

im a bit torn for if we have another one, id feel bad if next child felt left out without a S name, but i also dont want ppl to think we deliberatly had a all S family....

[Nai]

we have the same name thing going on with the males but instead of using as DS1 first name- we gave him two middle names, but reversed each generation

so its Name 1 , Name 2, Surname- great grandfather
Name 2, Name 1, Same surname- grandfather
Name 1, Name 2, Same surname- father (my DH)
Own Name, Name 2, Name 1 , Same surname- my son

are you totally confused now ??? LOL
in other words every 2nd generation have exactly the same names, and the ones in between have the same names but reverse order

I get it - I have friends where something similar happened for the male siblings with every generation. The first born boy was Charles and the next Francis - then when Charles had boys the first born was Francis and second Charles; for F the first born was C and the second F.

Fortunately the brothers I know both had 3 girls each and broke the cycle They were both rapt!

[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...

[Taurean]

My best friend in primary school was one of three daughters and their first names all started with 'Z'. Random hey!!

[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

[SunnyRain]

I hate it.

Dh comes from a family with many generations of all the boys with J names. I agreed to name our first son J as long as that name was Jude, but said no subsequent sons would be J. I love the name Jude, but I kinda wish I hadn't agreed to that stupid family tradition.

Oh wells.

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