Do You Like Matching Sibling Names?

November 16, 2008

This week funnyman Adam Sandler and his wife, Jackie Sandler, announced their newborn baby girl is named Sunny Madeline. Sunny joins 2-year-old big sis Sadie at the Sandler crib.

Seventy percent of lilsugar readers said they didn't like the idea of picking kid names that start with the same letter, but how do you feel about matching names that create a complementary pair, like sisters Rose and Sage from Privileged?

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californiagirlx7 4 years 25 weeks

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).

crn78 4 years 26 weeks

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.

MissSushi 4 years 26 weeks

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.

MissSushi 4 years 26 weeks

macchiatolove 4 years 26 weeks

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

macchiatolove 4 years 26 weeks

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

WiMom 4 years 26 weeks

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.

pinkprincess1101 4 years 26 weeks

mstrauss i love the name zachary, thats my sons name

Greggie 4 years 26 weeks

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.

Greggie 4 years 26 weeks

Sara and Sarah is bad.

Greggie 4 years 26 weeks

Sara and Sarah is bad.

Frank y Ava 4 years 26 weeks

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

bigestivediscuit 4 years 26 weeks

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

Greggie 4 years 26 weeks

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.

Greggie 4 years 26 weeks

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.

mstrauss 4 years 26 weeks

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.

skigurl 4 years 26 weeks

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

skigurl 4 years 26 weeks

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

lickety split 4 years 26 weeks

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!

kia 4 years 26 weeks

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.

blt5025 4 years 26 weeks

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.

pinkprincess1101 4 years 26 weeks

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

pelininstyle 4 years 26 weeks

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.

citizenkane 4 years 26 weeks

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?

Happsmjc 4 years 26 weeks

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!

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