A bit frustrated

[Kassy]

I already have a daughter called Phoebe and I'm pregnant again. I want to call this baby Penny if it's another girl, but my partner thinks having two kids with the same first letter in their name is stupid. What do you think?.

 

[BlingyGal]

I'm totally for naming siblings with the same starting letter.

If we have a second kid, their first name will start with 'M', just like our first!

Also, Penny and Phoebe have totally different sounds to them. Phoebe doesn't have a hard 'P' so, pronunciation-wise, it's completely different.

 

[butterflywolf]

Not stupid at all. My aunt named her kids, Jason, Jenny, Jeffrey. If we would have had another girl we would have had Claire and Carly. But I know names are hard to have both husband/wife agree on. Maybe he really just doesn't like Penny and using the same letter as an excuse. *shrugs* Is it stupid for the same letter name? Nope. But I think the two of you could struggle coming up with a name XD We did too trust me. We had 3 boy names we had picked out from our first/second pregnancy. (First ended at 10 weeks and then second was a daughter). It took us 1 1/2 years to come up with Claire a girls name we both liked. Once we had Claire I started to think of another girl's name in case we had another girl. Well it took another 1 1/2 years to come up with Carly. We both would say names and one of us where like no this is wrong with it I don't like it etc.

Good luck on coming up with names and have fun with it.

 

[heather2629]

On my mom's side of the family, there are 4 girls. All of them have a first name that starts with "T" and a middle name that starts with "L."

On my dad's side, there are 3 boys all with a name that starts with "K."

So, I think it's normal!

 

[smoore]

I know three families that have similar situations and think it is fine!!

Family 1 :
Michael
Matthew

Family 2:
Kyle
Kenny
Kasey
Kelsey

Family 3
Kevin
Kayla
(mom and dad are K names as well in this family)

 

[MrsPoodle]

I don't see the issue? It's not something I would do on purpose, but if I liked a name that started with the same letter as my daughter's, I wouldn't let that put me off. Plenty of families do it deliberately!

 

[Bubbles1088]

I have a friend who is one of 8 kids, and all of their names start with J. Not weird at all, a lot of people do it. I also have two cousins, a boy and a girl, named Tyler and Taylor. Completely normal!

 

[MeaganMackenz]

My kids are Kinsey and Kodee, my girlfriends kids are Natalie, Nathan and Nicholas and 3/5 of my husbands father's kids are Tommy, Tanya and Taylor.

It's common, don't worry about it lol.

 

[DebbieF]

I have a Keira and we plan to name this one a name beginning with a K as well. I don't think it's stupid at all.

 

[CandiceSj]

I wouldn't worry about it especially if you don't plan on having a dozen kids all with the same letter and it starts to look like you ran out of options and continued because you had to.

Also, I'd worry even less since the two names don't start with the same sound, they're really so different!

 

[staralfur]

I don't like it if there are like, 12 kids all with the same initials (I'm looking at you, Duggars), but two with the same is a non-issue. I'm really drawn to names that start with vowels and most of those are As and Es. We already have an A name and I wouldn't be deterred at all from using another one because of that!

 

[xprincessx]

I don't see the issue at all. I would happily use another C name (we have a Callum) but just so happens there are none I like beginning with that letter

 

[Jo77]

I don't think it's stupid at all! I'm Joanne and my sister is Jenn and we loved having the same initials growing up.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

No issue unless you had 8 or something. 2/3 and even 4 is fine!

 

[alibaba24]

It seems to be quite fashionable these days to give children the same letter on the name. While im not a fan of big families all having the same first letter as when you list them all out (in my opinion is looks a bit forced and odd) I wouldn't NOT do it in your instance. they both sound quite different and I wouldn't let the P thing deter me from a name I really like. I pondered another R name for my second but decided against. mainly as I couldn't find another R girl name I loved . I'm glad now as I want my second daughter to know she is individual and was given her name for her not just to match her older sisters name and follow a theme x