Thoughts on sibsets

thelionandthebelle, IMO Liliana totally fits with your style!

oh, those are beautiful names!

I don't know, haha.  Stylistically, I'm not as picky as most (I've been told that Liliana doesn't suit my style at all, haha, but I think it is lovely with Isabelle, Arianne, Olivia, Violet, Rachel, Charlotte, etc.), just whatever strikes me.  I think I like names that are loosely in the same style, though--Isabelle and Nevaeh is a no for me, but something like Isabelle and Henry or Isabelle and Louis make me grin.  :)  I think they're so cute together.  And Isabelle and Avery!  I love those for boy/girl twins.

I honestly like alliteration, I think it's fine, but I'm picky about alliteration.  I love Olivia and Oscar together, or Eliza and Elliot, but Hazel and Helena I don't like.  And stylistically they work.  I think I'm just a weirdo.  :)

But yes, there is totally too matchy.  Jayden and Cayden and Ayden, anyone?  Or Annabelle and Isabelle?  Once I told my mom I loved both Annabelle and Isabelle, and she told me if I had twins I should use both.  I was like, "Um, no."  :)

my dream sib-set for my kids was Georgia Anne and Jolene Marie or Myriah Jolene, but we decided not to have a 2nd (well technically 4th).  not matchy matchy but def. a simillar feel.

It's none of my business what other families do, but I'd prefer that my own children's names have a similar overall style and sound pleasant together. That said, we have a completely different naming style for boys than we do girls. So it's entirely possible that we could end up with Lathan, Graham, and Phoebe. Or Phoebe, Violet, and Lathan. It sounds a bit off because the one boy or one girl has a different style. Now if we have Phoebe, Violet, and Adelia or Lathan, Graham, and Calder we're good to go:)

They should have a similar feel, but not a similar sound. Margaret and Julia is good; Judith and Julia is not good. 

With twins, you can get away with names that are slightly more similar-sounding than for ordinary siblings, but still be careful that they aren't "matchy." They are individual people, after all. For example, I love Estelle and Celeste as twins. Whereas my mom used to know twins named Jon and Jan when she was growing up--not even Jonathan and Janet, just Jon-and-Jan. Yikes. 

some people feel no need for the names of thier children to flow, but i think my daughter and her sisters have just about the WORST sib set EVER.

you have  : Deven Avery (very modern, unisex, trendy at the time), Alleyanna Graceon (sounds completely made up) and Georgia Anne (very classic and feminine)

I think it is kind of nice when two styles of name are mixed within the same kid, maybe Elizabeth Avery or something like that that is classic then more modern/unisex. That way when the child grows up he or she can go with the same that suits best. I agree that for first names, it is strange in sib sets though.

I definitely prefer the idea of siblings having names that "go" together without being too similar. I guess I could explain it as names having a similar image, but still their own identity. 

Overly matchy would be names that rhyme (Aidan and Brayden), names that sound too much alike (Alice and Alex), too many names that start with the same letter (and generally become more random with each child), or an overly obvious theme (Indigo and Jade). 

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I guess that depends on what you mean by "sibset." I just think of it as meaning the combination of siblings' names, whether they match or coordinate or not. There are matchy sibsets and then there are sibsets that might seem odd together (like, I don't know, Bertha and Brianna, or Charlotte and Karsynne ;) ). I'm not a fan of matchy combinations but some combos just seem odd together for some reason, or are *too* similar IMO. To me the perfect one is not too matchy but also doesn't clash. Like my own kids' names--William and Alexander--I think go together well. Or like I think your kids' names make a good sibset, Olivia. :)

I'll probably be the odd one out, but I loathe the idea of a sibset. I'll never understand why the 1st child's name should matter when it comes to the second, third, fourth, ect.. I mean I get if it it's honouring family or heritage. E.g I have a really really good friend living in Scotland married to a Russian woman. All their kids have a Russian first name and their second name is a relatively common name in Scotland. They never did it so the kids names would 'match' but because it honours both her Russian heritage and his Scottish heritage. I just don't get why sibsets are important. My older sister has Ethan and Elodie and swears all future children will begin with an E because it's the letter Ethan starts with. Like, that I don't get why. I feel you should name a child want you want regardless of their older sibling(s) names. Like I said, I'm probably the odd one out on that.

Yeah, personally, I like it if the names are somewhat similar in style but don't have to be exactly the same. Like if you have a mix of biblical names and classic names, or two other categories that go well together. I don't like a mix of, say, unisex names with ultra-feminine names; I think it's confusing. And for me, "overly matchy" is names that all have the same first initial or the same ending (e.g. Liliana and Juliana, or Patrick and Frederick). Or names that rhyme, for that matter. ;) I'm also not a fan of really obvious themes--siblings named Ivy, Rose and Daisy, or Lincoln, Madison and Kennedy.