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Elisabeth & Isabella
What do you think about a two sisters named Elisabet and Isabela?
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I'd think their parents had never read a baby name book before.:)
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Apart from the spellings being horrendous (IMO) I think they'd be fine.I know the majority seems to think "Its like they have the same name!" But they don't. The fact is that Isabelle is a name separate from Elisabeth. They may have had a common ancestor but they are different names now. If you were to ask this question on a site about names but perhaps not with name nerds you'd find a very different response.Its when parents name children Lee and Leigh, Mary and Marie, Anne and Anna, Jon and John that they're annoying. Those names, though different, not only sound alike but are also spelled similar. That's when you should be getting people yelling at you. Just my humble opinions.
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It's ok, but I think both are pratically the same name. I'd use either Elisabeth or Isabella and pick something else.
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Singer/songwriter Trey Anastasio (formerly of the band Phish) has two children named Elizabeth and Isabella. Also hockey star Ryan Smyth (Colorado Avalanche) also has two children named Isabella and Elizabeth.But to answer your original question - the names are too common for my liking. I appreciate names that are more unique. As for the names having the same origin, I think it's sweet. I happen to love themed sib sets that are not overtly themey. The names are perfectly fine for siblings.
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Fine for twins, but not for mere sisters, since they are to all intents and purposes the same name.
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I think they would be even worse for twins, Twins already have to share so much, especially the identical ones, intentionally giving them names which are to all intent the same name is like telling them they don't deserve to be treated as individuals because they made the mistake of being born at the same time.
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Huh?Why on earth is it "fine" to give twins the same name? Don't you think they'd like individual names too?I really don't understand the logic that certain names are too similar for "mere siblings" but just fine for twins.

This message was edited 2/2/2008, 10:15 AM

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I'd think her parents don't know anything about namesbecause those are two forms of the same name.

This message was edited 2/2/2008, 8:23 AM

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Completely agree.It's like having daughters named Kristen & Kirsten or boys named Jack and John.
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agree
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Yes, this.
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I quite agreeM
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don't think so ^^Apparently that theorie isn´t even certain. But anyway Elisabeth and Isabella don't sound or look alike anymore (to me anyway), apart from the small "isa" part, so I don't see any problem with this. (However I don't like the spellings Elisabet and Isabela)
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I agreeThe only people who would ever possibly know or care that Elizabeth and Isabella are related are namenerds. Should these girls ever discover that they have two different versions of the same name, they'll probably just laugh.
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Yeah, but they're still derived from the same name. To me (and a good many namenerds) it's like having twins named Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide. My Spanish teacher refers to his daughter as "Elizabeth" when he's talking in English and "Isabel" when he's talking in Spanish. James is derived from Jacob, so the period in English history that was ruled by Kings James is known as the Jacobean period. Names with the same etymological derivation are, to me, essentially the same name.
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Ah, I see ...depends on the region then. Where I live - neither english nor spanish speaking region - I've never seen Elisabeth and Isabel being used on the same person. (And Isabella is even more different)To me, Mary and Maria or Alice and Adelaide look much worse and a lot more similar, in these cases I can understand.
However f.ex. I don't see James and Jacob as the "same name", or John and Jack or Nancy and Anna or Louis and Ludwig or Guillaume and William ... they already sound to different one from another.
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I agree
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Ditto.
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Elisabeth and Isabella are kind of close in spelling due to the fact that they both have "i-s-a" in them. Elizabeth and Isabella would be better, in my opinion.
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I'd think they have the same name. Yuck.
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I hate it when two children have the same name even in different forms. Hamish and James as brothers is one of my pet peeves, and Elisabet and Isabela get the same response.
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I know! I have two great-great uncles named Evan and John. And my family still lived in Wales at that point, so they have no excuse for not knowing what Evan means.
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Too much alike.
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Since Isabela is a variant of ELisabet, it looks like you're giving them the same name.
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I wouldn't use them, honestly, since it's the same name in two different forms.
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I love Isabela my sister named Isabela But we call her Issie. We are Issie Tessa and Clem.I don't like Elisabeth

This message was edited 2/2/2008, 6:24 AM

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I think they are too close. Isabel is a form of Elizabeth.

This message was edited 2/2/2008, 5:43 AM

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