Will baby #3 feel left out?

[steph.]

We're still ttc #3 (on cycle 4, just wish this baby would hurry up!) but I'm using the time to think of names! So...we have Sophia and Sienna. My dh is set on Jessica if we have a third girl, if I try to suggest anything else he'll just say "I really like Jessica" . I like it but I'm not in love with it, but since I'm not in love with anything else I'm considering letting him have the name. Anyway my only concern would be that she would feel left out because it's not an S name. My name is Stephanie so that starts with S too. Does is really matter?

 

[emyandpotato]

No it really doesn't matter. Frankly I think it's best to break the cycle cos if you end up having a fourth, however unlikely, and you already had three children with 'S' names then you'd no doubt feel obliged to continue the trend and before you know it you're like that family of 22, all with 'K' names. Okay a little exaggeration but I think deliberate alliteration with numerous siblings can be a little weird. It's very different if you love another name beginning with 'S' but I wouldn't force it. Anyway, of all the things kids hate their parents for, I doubt many hold grudges over a first initial.

 

[minties]

My OH's older brothers are Jason and Jody, my OH is called Mathew. Never occured to me that he may have ever felt left out (I asked him). He said never. If anything he felt special.

 

[Medzi]

Doesn't matter. I'm an M, my little sister is an M, and my mom's name is an M - my older sister is a K. I don't think it has even occurred to her. (there are 2 brothers though too - T and C!)

 

[MUMOF5]

Three of mine have S names, but it wasn't intentional, just names we liked. X

 

[george83]

My sister intentionally named her eldest two children names beginning with 'j' and then decided they didn't like it anymore so their youngest starts with an 'r'. He's never said anything about feeling left out. However I did have a friend whose mum, dad and brother all had the initials 'p f' and he once said he would have liked the same but he wasn't distraught over it

 

[JumpingIn]

I think I'd feel a bit funny if my name was part of a "set", like less of an individual. I'm not a fan of giving the same initial for each child. It's fine with 2 as it could just be coincidence, but 3 would be strange to me. I really doubt she'll feel left out and may not even think of it.

 

[steph.]

Thanks all! I thought she wouldn't mind but I've seen a few threads mentioning it so I started worrying. The two 'S' names were coincidence as we just happened to like the names and I'm not a fan of having all my kids starting with the same letter either but I was thinking "shoot, maybe now that I've started I have to keep going!".

 

[DissySunshine]

My cousin just had her 2nd little girl, and her entire family have names that end in the "ee" sound (Johnny, Kaycee, Karlee) and then she went with Ella for her LO. I could see how it might be odd to have a different kind of name than the rest of the family, but as a previous poster said, she would also feel unique!