BellaOnline Forums Family Siblings What to consider when naming siblings

In thinking about names and siblings I'm not sure why past generations in my family were so unimaginative.

Take my mom's grandparents for instance. Their names were John and Ann. Their kids were named John, Ann, Mary, George, Corneilius, Mable, Johnny, Annie. (Yes the last two were the same as the first two kids).

Or take my grandparents, they named my Aunt Roberta and my dad Robert. Anyone else out there have the same name as their sibling?

If you loose a child and then have another baby is it OK to use the deceased child's name when naming the new child?

Perhaps weird but my kids are alphabetical, LOL. All of them have family names except Emily, I'm not sure why.

C - Cathryne (my mother)
E - Emily
J - Jayden (closest female name to my husband's name)
L -Liam (middle name is hubby's grandfather)
N - Nicholas (He will be called by his middle name, Garrett, when he's born this fall - nicholas is my grandfather and a cousin of hubby's who passed away 2 yrs ago)

Meg

It would of been weird if your children's names spelled a word in order of oldest to youngest.