If you were going to...
... theme your children's names in some manner, how would you do it? Same first initial, flower names, place names? A connecting element? (like the Belgian royals have Elisabeth, Eleonore, Gabriel, and Emmanuel, connecting with the -el element)
Try to be more creative than "saint" names or the like, unless they are really well-known like Francis (Assisi) or Catherine (Siena) , just because of the masses of saints there are.
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I think I would probably connect with a Y element. I love the look of a Y in a name, as long as it was originally there. (Example, Cecilie and Cecily are both original spellings, and I prefer the Y-spelling, but Caitlin ranks far higher than Caitlyn). Plus, they can go in the front, middle, end, and it's relatively subtle.
My sibset might look like:
Rhys Benedict
Cecily Helene
Myles Lazarus
Freya Marguerite
Blythe Alexandrine
Sybil Berenice
A nice mix of sounds and syllables with a fairly cohesive feel, IMO. The middle names are connected mostly by chance, what I thought sounded nice. The boy MNs are religious, and the girl MNs are e-ending French names.
Try to be more creative than "saint" names or the like, unless they are really well-known like Francis (Assisi) or Catherine (Siena) , just because of the masses of saints there are.
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I think I would probably connect with a Y element. I love the look of a Y in a name, as long as it was originally there. (Example, Cecilie and Cecily are both original spellings, and I prefer the Y-spelling, but Caitlin ranks far higher than Caitlyn). Plus, they can go in the front, middle, end, and it's relatively subtle.
My sibset might look like:
Rhys Benedict
Cecily Helene
Myles Lazarus
Freya Marguerite
Blythe Alexandrine
Sybil Berenice
A nice mix of sounds and syllables with a fairly cohesive feel, IMO. The middle names are connected mostly by chance, what I thought sounded nice. The boy MNs are religious, and the girl MNs are e-ending French names.
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I could happily do biblical names.
I would love to have girls named Miriam, Tabitha and Susannah. And boys named Ezra, Gideon and Malachi.
Funnily enough I'm an atheist. But still adore biblical names.
I would love to have girls named Miriam, Tabitha and Susannah. And boys named Ezra, Gideon and Malachi.
Funnily enough I'm an atheist. But still adore biblical names.
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Thistle Lumi Maeve
Saorsa Eluned Rowan
Alba Liadan Chrysanth
Magnus Odhran Valo
Ronan Hawthorne Burns
Torin Somerled Bard
Themes: Names that represent Scotland in some way: Thistle, Saorsa (Scottish Gaelic for Independence/Freedom), Alba (Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland), Magnus, Burns and Bard. this is a theme I'd like to include with our next baby, not sold on the boys' choices yet.
the girls name also have the theme of famous mythological women: Maeve, Liadan and Eluned.
Saorsa Eluned Rowan
Alba Liadan Chrysanth
Magnus Odhran Valo
Ronan Hawthorne Burns
Torin Somerled Bard
Themes: Names that represent Scotland in some way: Thistle, Saorsa (Scottish Gaelic for Independence/Freedom), Alba (Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland), Magnus, Burns and Bard. this is a theme I'd like to include with our next baby, not sold on the boys' choices yet.
the girls name also have the theme of famous mythological women: Maeve, Liadan and Eluned.
Well I do love E names so naming my children Edmund, Emmett, Eleanor and Evangeline "Evie" wouldn't be too much of a stretch for me.
Jane Austen is my favorite author so I wouldn't mind using names from her books like heroes and heroines first names: Edmund, Elinor, Catherine, Henry.
I also love Biblical names so using Nathaniel, Simon, Gideon, Lydia, Tabitha and Mary would be great too!
I could very easily use names that all come from my dad's family tree because many of my favorites come from there anyway: Amy, Lena, Frances, Sally, Simon, Nathaniel, Laurence, Welcome.
Jane Austen is my favorite author so I wouldn't mind using names from her books like heroes and heroines first names: Edmund, Elinor, Catherine, Henry.
I also love Biblical names so using Nathaniel, Simon, Gideon, Lydia, Tabitha and Mary would be great too!
I could very easily use names that all come from my dad's family tree because many of my favorites come from there anyway: Amy, Lena, Frances, Sally, Simon, Nathaniel, Laurence, Welcome.
I seem to like similar style names so my faves already have a lot of matching names (I'd rather not use a theme in real life, but I might with some names if my SO agreed). I'd like to have 3 kids, so some possible themes:
Sebastian
Korbinian
Dorian
Gabriel
Emanuel
Rafael
Barbara
Sofia
Sebastian
Borna (boy)
(me and my brother are S&B, so are my parents and maternal grandparents)
Sofia
Sabrina
Sebastian
Maria Magdalena
Gabriel Maria
Maria Larisa
Mata
Borna
Nikita
(all boys)
Sebastian
Korbinian
Dorian
Gabriel
Emanuel
Rafael
Barbara
Sofia
Sebastian
Borna (boy)
(me and my brother are S&B, so are my parents and maternal grandparents)
Sofia
Sabrina
Sebastian
Maria Magdalena
Gabriel Maria
Maria Larisa
Mata
Borna
Nikita
(all boys)
I guess I could go with names starting with the same letter, since some of my favorite names starts with A:
Alexander, Alice & Aurora (and if I had more children, I could always use Arabella, August, Alvin, Alfred, Anaïs)
But...names starting with the same letter is quite boring. What about double barreled names, then my kids any of these:
William
Isaac
Canaan
Amedee
Keegan
Reese
Stella
Emmeline
Willow
Isabelle
Ellen
Noelle
Calliope
Ebba
But if I had 4, they would most likely be:
William, Isaac, Stella & Emmeline
Alexander, Alice & Aurora (and if I had more children, I could always use Arabella, August, Alvin, Alfred, Anaïs)
But...names starting with the same letter is quite boring. What about double barreled names, then my kids any of these:
William
Isaac
Canaan
Amedee
Keegan
Reese
Stella
Emmeline
Willow
Isabelle
Ellen
Noelle
Calliope
Ebba
But if I had 4, they would most likely be:
William, Isaac, Stella & Emmeline
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