as long as the names are creative, i dont think anything is wrong with matching names. my fiance and his son, and my son all have the same initials. so they are all "m"'s. i like the idea. and if we have another child, their name will have the same initials.

My parents named my sisters and I names that all start with an "A" and we are known as the three As or triple A. It gets kind of annoying when people call you by the wrong name all the time, including your own parents!!!

Evidently. We all have 'A' names (all 5) We stared it because my and my ex-husband's names only end in one letter different. We were a 'star' but since the divorce we call ourselves A(to the 4th power) And my two of my sisters and I all had the same initials before I got married.

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I think it's cute. I want to do that when I have kids.

the two oldest are KAT initials, and the two youngest are TDT. I don't think that matching all the same letters contributes to name confusion, my parents frequently call me Taylor, which is my sisters name. But I like the idea of Rose & Sage, kind of matchy but not really.

I don't care for all the same initial, but not for the reasons stated, and it's not a big deal to me. I guess I fall under "other." I think most families have matching names in some way. Ours all match in that they're Italian, even though none start with the same letter or anything. But most families pick names that go together in some manner.

to each his own (but I wouldn't it do it to my kids)

baby naming books usually mention that you should take sibling's names into account when naming a baby. for instance, if you name one daughter a boys name and the next a super feminine name or do so for twins, that could be confusing for them and their identities i guess. two plant names/ two last names ( connor and taylor for instance) are not too offensive/silly in my opinion. i love t names and my son's future siblings might get them and match him but not because i want them to match!

I don't like matchy-mathcy names but I like names that are from the same orgin or flow together like Vivian, Evalyn, and Madelyn (those are cute sister names to me). I don't like when twins practically have the same name like Erica and Jerica (so uncreative and quite frankly lazy). When I have kids their names won't start with the same letter.

P.S. I think Sage and Rose are cute together but I don't really like those names in general.

Why should sibling names match? Tastes and circumstances change over time. Newer, fresh names arrive on the scene---and old favorites re-emerge. I'd hate to lock myself into a certain style, ever.

Kids are only going to be under the same roof for 18 years or less, with 60 years of life ahead. They will presumably live in their own homes, cities, and maybe even countries as adults.

Is it important for a 52 year old man and his 50 year old brother to be Tommy and Timmy? Or sisters to be Sarah and Susan?

On the same token of why should the match is, why shouldn't they! It's completely up to the parents, completely their decision and preference! I like names that remotely go together, or have a meaning behind them. I'm planning on using all family names, so while they will not start with the same letter or share the same theme, they will all be bound because of family ties.

On another note, three of my cousins (2 brothers and a sister) are all R's. The first was a junior, so he was an R, the second was a name she loved, and the third became an R because she didn't want him to be left out even though the first two weren't intentional. That makes sense to me! And, it doesn't matter how close or different names are. I get called my cousins name DAILY by my family (we are the only two girls out of all the first cousins) and our names are NOTHING alike!

I hate it. I don't see the point at all. Why do they need to match? The children are already siblings....what other connection do they need?

I totallt think that children shloud name themselves. Parents name their children with silly names (apparently they think that it is cute to put the same kind of names etc...) and most of the children hate their names.

my daugghters start with a d and my son with a z

My family as a whole some how accidentally named the three girls ABC and then my older sister named her baby a D name so the next will most likely be an E name jsut for tradition alone now.

I hate them. I am six years younger than my sister and my folks thought I was going to be a boy... so they planned on Miguel Antonio. Well surprise, I was a girl, and not named for a few days. They finally settled on my unique name because it resembles my sister's name. Now her name has a great story about why it was picked, mine... not so much.

hhate them. especially when it just goes on and on, like the duggars. what is it up tp now, 17 kids all starting with the letter "j". hello, USE ANOTHER LETTER!

i know of a family with two kids: Brock and Kaylee - BROC-K-LEE (say it together now)

and another who have two young kids: Angelo and Angela

matching is cute, to a degree, but when they sound almost the same, that's crazy

My husband's name is Justin and I really love 'J' names but I knew that if I named my son anything that starts with a 'J', I would confuse their names all the time. So I went with Zachary.

I don't think Rose and Sage really count as "matching" names. I understand why they go together and might be considered complementary, but I don't think they're really matchy-matchy.

We actually had a huge problem coming up with another boy name when I was pregnant because the only ones we really liked matched my second son's too much.

I have a friend whose name is Sara and her sister is Sarah. Yeahhhhh ...

Sara and Sarah... that is so terrible. I won't believe that she was pregnant for 9 months and came up those names.

Sara and Sarah is bad.

There's a guy on MSNBC who used to be a weatherman in Phoenix and his name is Sean, pronounced "Seen." Which is ok and all, even though it's a total misrepresentation when even his last name is Irish, but his brother's name is Shawn. I'm guessing someone pointed out to his parents how Sean was supposed to be pronounced so they just used it again.

mstrauss i love the name zachary, thats my sons name

I don't like the rhyming names for sibings. However, I think names shoud "flow"...for example, my kids are Evan, Lauren, Madalyn and Mason. (The last two are twins). I wanted the "n" for the last letter.

I like the idea of complimentary names, but I think all with the same letter would be confusing.

I also like names that flow well for twins, but not so much for siblings that have bigger age gaps.

I like Rose and Sage, but yeah, Sara and Sarah? that's lame! and Sean and Shaun? LAME! lol

My siblings and I all end in a's. Im Katrina, and there is Jessica, Krista, and Sierra. They sort of matched up our middle names as well, I have Ann, then there is Lee, and then Leann and the youngest is Diann. I think its cute as long as its not too over the top. I dont really like rhyming names, but i do like matched names, such as Rose and Sage. I tend to always use names with meaning and some sort of correlation. i go by Kate, so I named my cat leopold.. and the three puppies we just adopted are 3 names from a book series my husband and I love.

My girls end in -ryn and both middle names start with A and end in -ia lol. I'm not sure what we do if there is another girl lol. I would kinda feel bad going out on a limb and not have them match now. I don't really care for rhyming names likes Larry and Mary or whatever. But I don't think the beginning letter being the same is a big deal nor the endings being the same. And names like Rose and Mary when used together for different children are just disturbing really lol.

Ehh it depends...it can be confusing. My name starts with a K and my little sisters both have names that start with C, but phonetically my youngest sister's name starts with a hard C so its similar to mine (my middle sister's is a Ch - like church). My dad always has a hard time saying the right name because our names are so similar (He knows what our name is, but he recites them all usually before he actually gets to the name of the person he is talking to).